Chris Brown would like the Rihanna beatdown details to be kept “private.” Rihanna appeared on Good Morning America and was interviewed by Diane Sawyer about that fateful night last February when Chris Brown left her bloody and bruised. Rihanna talks openly about still loving Chris Brown after the incident partially as a public service announcement to other women who suffer domestic abuse.

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Chris Brown sat down with MTV and said:

Chris Brown and Rihanna face off. Rihanna got to air her side of the story with Diane Sawyer this week, so now Chris gets a turn. Chris has an interview with MTV and both interviews will air on Friday night. Will anybody feel sorry for him though?

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Chris says he doesn’t know what he was thinking. Well, duh! Let’s help him out – he was beating the tar out of Rihanna. Here’s a snippet of what he says via Radar Online:

Rihanna woke up as Britney Spears! Rihanna opens up to Glamour magazine December issue of how she coped with the February much-publicized assault by her then-boyfriend Chris Brown. Rihanna says she went to sleep as Rihanna and woke up as Britney Spears right after the incident. No silly, she didn’t quite transform, she meant the amount of chaotic publicity she was getting…

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Rihanna opens up about what really happened with her then-boyfriend Chris Brown during their February altercation with ABC’s Diane Sawyer. Rihanna sits down with Sawyer in an exclusive interview as Rihanna reveals publicly for the first time what really happened since the incident.

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Rihanna tells Swayer: “He was definitely my first big love,”
“…This happened to me…it can happen to anyone,”

Rihanna’s ‘Rated R’ album cover debut. Rihanna draped in hand jewelry covering one eye on the grainy black-and-white cover. Pretty cool! Rihanna’s “Rated R” is scheduled to hit stores on November 23rd. It is Rihanna’s first album since assaulted by then-boyfriend Chris Brown in back in February.

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As reports by Pop Eater the slick cover is shot by photographer Ellen von Unwerth, who says

What on earth is Rihanna wearing? Rihanna seems to be freezing cold as she wraps herself in a huge blanket as she leaves a music video shoot in Washington Heights, New York City on Friday night October 16, 2009. Rihanna has been working on her new album and with her new single coming to us soon she might just be trying to keep it all a surprise. Keep it all under wrap!

Rihanna finally moved on from all the Chris Brown nonsense which threatened to overshadow her career and has filmed the video for her new track as reports by Holy Moly In fact the only battering going on here involved the paparazzi and her bodyguards. Ouch!

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