The Hovering Manager interrupts for the first time. “Ri, can you come over here for two seconds?” she asks…You get the feeling that Rihanna still has a lot to say. Her eyes are wet when anything Chris Brown-related comes up. She has a tendency to stare off into the distance when she talks about It—but then she meets the glare of the manager. Maybe she does want to go there—and can’t. Or perhaps it is dawning on Rihanna that to really step out and be the kind of advocate she says she wants to be is another burden altogether. {Source}
Rihanna is on the cover of GQ magazine topless. I’m not shocked by the topless part, but she does give an in depth interview where she discusses Chris Brown and the assault, as well as some personal things people just don’t know or understand about her. Checkout some juicy excerpts below, or read the full interview here.
On discussing the Chris Brown assault:
Very liberating. It’s relieving. Because it was built up for so long, and all these thoughts and emotions have been running through my mind for the past eight months. And now it’s like I finally get to let go and move on …
On What she learned about the herself from the assault:
Um … really really really that love is blind. It took a lot of strength to pull out of that relationship. To finally just basically cut it out. It was like night and day. It was two different worlds. It was the world I lived for two years, and then having the strength to say, ‘I’m gonna step into my own world. Start over.
On the her future with Chris Brown:
Maybe in like ten years, but it’s not something that I’m depending on. I’m not depending on his friendship.
On what people think about Rihanna:
They just don’t understand me. I just think people straight up don’t know who I am; they just know what I look like, they know the idea of me. But—they’ll learn more this time, because now I let my guard down, and I’m more comfortable just being myself.
SylentDreamz
Comment made on 12/15/2009 @ 10:50 AM
Oh Please! I have never liked Rhianna and think she is just a record label’s dream…a top-selling gimmick! Of course people don’t know who she is cause she changed who was so many times. I feel the only reason she left C. Breezy was not look dumb and to save face with her label and endorsements. Regardless of what may come of her and C.Breezy, she didn’t leave for the right reasons she left for the wrong ones…thus she will return to him…if she hasn’t already!
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MrsGrapevine
Comment made on 12/15/2009 @ 12:38 PM
@ SylentDreamz
It sounds like the real Rihanna like being naked, and I agree with so much of what you said.
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MrsGrapevine
Comment made on 12/15/2009 @ 1:06 PM
@ Sylent:
Honestly, I’m too hard on Rihanna as well. She’s was just a kid when she started, and if you let them start with control, it’s hard to break away. It’s not her fault we don’t know her, it’s the marketing and packaging. Anything for a hit is the motto.
I’m know the real Rihanna is kind-hearted and sweet. She really takes care of old friends, but the fake packaged Rihanna irks me, and when I’m judgmental, I act like the two are one and the same, and they’re not.
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Brandy
Comment made on 12/17/2009 @ 1:44 AM
i jus wish she’d go back to her fashion show,these suggestive pictures do nothing for us,her nude photo’s already leaked anyway.Instead of showin us skin all the time she could do interesting fashion shoots.this nakedness thing is boring.
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pmccoy2
Comment made on 01/01/2010 @ 7:48 PM
Sylent stop hating on rihanna.I feel let the girl do her,you dont know what she been threw in her life,you don’t know the hole damn storie between Rihanna and chris.people her so judge mentdol.i feel like this stay out of other peoples bussiness,and worry about your own damn life.beleive me if you was in the same situation with your man,if you got one.you would’nt won’t people all up in your.let Rihanna express herself the she see fit to.get a life and stay out of Rihanna business.if she won’t to be nude let her,she still gone make her money.what about you.all i’m saying is shout up and get you a man hater.
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amarie
Comment made on 03/22/2010 @ 6:14 PM
Rihanna is gorgeous she’s topless so what she’s comfortable in her own body why not flaunt it
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