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Rihanna, Chris Brown set dueling TV interviews
In what is shaping up as dueling interviews from former lovers whose affair went very wrong, Chris Brown this Friday will give an interview to MTV News talking about his attack on former girlfriend Rihanna. One day earlier, Rihanna will talk to ABC’s Diane Sawyer about the assault that left her bruised and bloody on the eve of the Grammy Awards in February.In excerpts from Brown’s interview released Wednesday by MTV News, Brown said he is “confused right now as far as the public perception of me…I got the people that come out and support me and I got the people who don’t want to see me do anything. They want to see me, kind of, basically, in jail.”Brown’s excerpts follow by one day the release of an interview Rihanna gave to Glamour magazine in which she talked publicly about the incident for the first time. She told Glamour she wanted to alert young women to the “big secret” of abusive relationships. “Teenage girls can’t tell their parents that their boyfriend beats them up…It’s one of the things we (women) hide because it’s embarrassing,” Rihanna said. You can read a story about it here.Brown, 20, already had been interviewed before by Larry King (read about that here), but the chat with MTV News promises to be even more revealing. It airs on Friday, Nov. 6, at 6 p.m. ET/PT. Rihanna, 21, will talk to Sawyer on ABC’s morning chat show “Good Morning America” on Thursday and Friday.The interviews, not coincidentally, reach fans as both singers promote the release of new albums. They had to talk about the assault at some time — Rihanna to share her side of the assault and Brown to try to redeem himself in the public eye — and promotion seems as good a reason as any for the singers. Brown has already apologized, pleaded guilty to assault and been sentenced to five years probation and community service.Rihanna, whose hit singles include “Umbrella” and “Disturbia,” sees her new CD “Rated R” hit record stores on Nov. 23, and Brown’s record label said on Wednesday that the release of his “Grafitti” has been pushed forward by one week to Dec. 8. He also begins a “Fan Appreciation Tour” on Nov. 14.
well to be honest with everyone when i heard about it i was shocked at first but then i was like oh well i didn’t really care and im not saying it’s ok to hit a woman but honestly when a man hits a woman there’s this whole thing like it’s the end of the world or something but when a woman hits a man they look for every reason y it’s ok to hit a man.. madd people are like chris is this rihanna is this it does not matter no one should put there hands on anyone.. i live in boston and if a girl puts there hands on a boy they do not care that’s a fight and i do not see that all up in the news….so for the media to blow up this whole thing is crazy because we all have serious things to worry about in the world than a couple having problems like that doesn’t happen enough already…. when things happen to celebrities their story has a whole week but for a murder or something like that it takes a day or two and its done,it just shows you that celebrities are favored all of the time i do not hate either of them and i do forgive chris he’s only human and i love the fact that he is taking responsibility for his actions, hes doing what he has to and that’s the right thing to do,.. so before men or women judge:i say if you weren’t there of what happen between them two then you dont have a reason to judge either one of them