More than three years after Rihanna was assaulted by Chris Brown, the singer stopped by the OWN Network for a intimate interview with Oprah. The singer offered up details about the 2009 incident in which Brown attacked her on the eve of the Grammy Awards in Los Angeles.
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In an interview with Oprah Winfrey to be broadcast on Sunday, a tearful Rihanna said: “Everything I knew switched in a night, and I couldn’t control that.”
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The singer went on to say that she was afraid of what would happen to Brown after the incident became public. “It became a circus and I felt protective,” the singer explained. “Who’s gonna help him? Nobody’s gonna say he needs help. Everybody’s gonna say he’s a monster without looking at the source.”
In 2009, Brown pleaded guilty to assaulting Rihanna, whose real name is Robyn Rihanna Fenty. The attack — in which police said Brown bit, punched and choked his then-girlfriend — erupted as the couple sat in a car in the Hancock Park neighborhood after a pre-Grammy Awards party.
Under the terms of the plea agreement, Brown was placed on five years’ probation, required to attend a yearlong domestic violence prevention class and complete six months of what the judge termed “community labor” — a more restrictive form of community service in which he was required to perform such tasks as picking up trash or removing graffiti.
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In the interview, Rihanna said she was angry at Brown but also felt protective of him. “I was more concerned about him.”
