Eight months ago Chris Brown beat the living hell out of Rihanna (much like he allegedly did before). Since then, Rihanna has been mum. She's been upping her fashion game, creating a new hair trend, working on her new album and "quietly" started a foundation (who knew?) that provides educational and medical supplies to needy children.
In a very classy interview appearing in the December edition of Glamour magazine (just in time to promote her new album), Rihanna supposedly opens up about the incident. [Spoiler Alert: She doesn't. But one does offer one interesting factoid: She says she's never been in love.]
Glamour: Let’s talk about this past year—you’ve obviously been through some difficult things. How did the people around you help you cope?
Rihanna: My friends and family have been extremely supportive, and everyone has been there for me. But at some point you are there alone. It’s a lonely place to be—no one can understand. That’s when you get close to God.
Are you referring to the incident?
I am talking about starting with the night [before] the Grammys and then on. That was not the only thing that occurred this year. The picture leaking…it was one thing after another.
You’re talking about the photo that was allegedly leaked by cops. You handled that so well; you kept silent in the press.
It was humiliating; that is not a photo you would show to anybody. I felt completely taken advantage of. I felt like people were making it into a fun topic on the Internet, and it’s my life. I was disappointed, especially when I found out the photo was [supposedly leaked by] two women.
How has this event changed you as a person, as a woman?
I’m stronger, wiser and more aware. You don’t realize how much your decisions affect people you don’t even know, like fans.
Do you feel that this experience has laid the groundwork for coping with anything so public again?
It has taught me so much. I felt like I went to sleep as Rihanna and woke up as Britney Spears. That was the level of media chaos that happened the next day. It was like, What, there are helicopters circling my house? There are 100 people in my cul-de-sac? What do you mean, I can’t go back home?
If you could offer a message to the millions of young women who look up to you, what would you tell someone who found herself in a similar situation?
Domestic violence is a big secret. No kid goes around and lets people know their parents fight. Teenage girls can’t tell their parents that their boyfriend beat them up. You don’t dare let your neighbor know that you fight. It’s one of the things we [women] will hide, because it’s embarrassing. My story was broadcast all over the world for people to see, and they have followed every step of my recovery. The positive thing that has come out of my situation is that people can learn from that. I want to give as much insight as I can to young women, because I feel like I represent a voice that really isn’t heard. Now I can help speak for those women.
So here you are, only 21, and you have already accomplished so much. Where do you see yourself in five years?
So much has happened in the past five years, I can’t speak for the next five. What I want is to continue to grow. Because I am never satisfied; I always want more. I always want to get better. I always want to climb another step.
Is it too early for you to think, I want to be in love, I want to have a family? Is that too far down the road?
I hope I find love in the next 10 years—that will be pretty annoying if I am 31 and still have never been in love! But yeah, I’d like to be in a great place in both my personal life and my career. I still want to be doing what I love. Whatever that is in 10 years, I don’t know.
As for her new album, Rated R, she says it's a more grown-up sound - actually, she describes it as rock-n-roll and hip-hop - that she helped create. She adds: "Even if people don’t love it, I made exactly the piece of art that I wanted to make. It’s super fearless—which is exactly how I feel right now. I am in a really good place."
Diane Sawyer has done it again. The Good Morning America host conducted an exclusive interview with Ms Fenty that will air Thursday morning on GMA and Friday at 10pm on 20/20. The network says she opens up about the night of the actual beating. We will believe it when we see it. Then again, Diane is a much more aggressive reporter and she won't take crap, like what Chris gave in his sit-down interview.
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