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    “Eff love.” In the blogosphere, some cynics dismissed her 20/20 appearance as a plug for her upcoming album, Rated R. (Brown, who also has his album, Graffiti, set to release early December, also conducted a one-on-one interview the same night with MTV’s Sway.) Rihanna cited another reason for breaking her silence: "I knew I had to do this in order to move on for me and in order for my fans to move on with me because it would always be a question in their mind … I don't want that five years from now every time [fans] see Rihanna, they think of Chris Brown beating me." But one Twitter bug essentially said just that, dubbing the battered songstress “tha 2009 Robin Givens.” “That's not who I am,” Rihanna said in the interview. Full Article at The Root
    I knew I had to do this in order to move on for me and in order for my fans to move on with me because it would always be a question in their mind … I don't want that five years from now every time [fans] see Rihanna, they think of Chris Brown beating me.
    SOURCE: The Root 3 weeks ago
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Rihanna Breaks Her Silence
  1. My next option was to get out the car and walk—start walking in a gown and a bloody face ... I didn’t know what to do. I didn’t have a plan. That whole night was not part of my plan.
    SOURCE: The Root 3 weeks ago
  2. I felt very lonely ... I couldn't even go back to my own house because there were 200 people outside with cameras, paparazzi, journalists, fans, neighbors.
    SOURCE: The Root 3 weeks ago
  3. That's not who I am ... It's just one thing that happened to me.
    Rihanna – Rihanna SOURCE: The Root 3 weeks ago
  4. Don’t react off of love ... Eff love.
    SOURCE: The Root 3 weeks ago
  5. I felt humiliated ... I was like, here goes my little bit of privacy.
    SOURCE: The Root 3 weeks ago
  6. I just, I didn't talk about it to anyone, to no one ... Not my friends. Not my family … It's not something that I wanted to relive. It's not something I wanted to think about ... I just put it away in a box ... and just ignored it really.
    SOURCE: The Root 3 weeks ago

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