{"id":267053,"date":"2019-02-08T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-02-08T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/b1011888"},"modified":"2019-02-08T04:00:00","modified_gmt":"2019-02-08T11:00:00","slug":"reliving-the-moment-everything-unraveled-for-chris-brown-and-rihanna","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/music-news\/reliving-the-moment-everything-unraveled-for-chris-brown-and-rihanna\/","title":{"rendered":"Reliving the Moment Everything Unraveled for Chris Brown and Rihanna"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"photo-txt-0\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"39.179810725552\">\n<div class=\"column post-content__image--left post-content__image\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"32\"> <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image--full\" src=\"https:\/\/akns-images.eonline.com\/eol_images\/Entire_Site\/2013110\/634.brown.rihanna.ls.21013_copy.jpg?fit=inside|900:auto&amp;output-quality=90\" title=\"Chris Brown, Rihanna, Grammys\" alt=\"Chris Brown, Rihanna, Grammys\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"image__credits\">Christopher Polk\/Getty Images<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-photo-text\" readability=\"18.360477741585\">\n<p>For a few years there, <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/chris_brown\">Chris Brown<\/a><\/strong> seemed primed to be <em>the<\/em> pop star of his generation.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>His self-titled debut moved more than 3 million copies after its 2005 release, he scored acting roles in <em>Stomp the Yard<\/em>, <em>This Christmas<\/em> and on <em>The O.C<\/em>. and even released a hit single, &#8220;No Air&#8221; with <em>American Idol<\/em> darling <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/jordin_sparks\">Jordin Sparks<\/a><\/strong>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>And his rise up the ranks was being mirrored by another young musician. Having been discovered in her native Barbados\u00a0when two American record producers were vacationing there in 2004,\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/rihanna\">Rihanna<\/a><\/strong> had a succession of quick hits with her 2005 dancehall-inspired tune &#8220;Pon de Replay,&#8221; and &#8220;SOS&#8221; off her 2006 follow-up disc <em>A Girl Like Me<\/em>. By the time she was accepting\u00a0Video of the Year at the 2007 MTV Video Music Awards for the impossibly catchy &#8220;Umbrella&#8221; rumors that <em>something<\/em> was happening with Brown, her duet partner at the\u00a0music network&#8217;s annual shindig, had reached a deafening pitch.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"text-2\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"62.211221122112\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-text-only\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"19.141914191419\">\n<p>The pair continued to spend the next year labeling their relationship as platonic\u2014&#8221;We are best friends, honestly, like brother and sister,&#8221; she told MTV\u2014until their outings to London clubs and vacation to Barbados made it impossible to continue to deny the obvious. &#8220;Our relationship is growing,&#8221; Brown admitted during an interview with the <a href=\"http:\/\/neonlimelight.com\/2008\/06\/26\/chris-brown-reveals-new-album-plans-talks-about-growing-relationship-with-rihanna\/\" target=\"_blank\">Russ Parr Morning Show<\/a>. &#8220;We started off as friends and we&#8217;re getting a little bit closer now.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The crowned prince and princess of R&amp;B,\u00a019-year-old Brown and his 20-year-old girlfriend were one of the most adorable young couples in all of music. And with each slated to perform at the 2009 Grammys Feb. 8 (triple nominee Rihanna was primed to sing with <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/justin_timberlake\">Justin Timberlake<\/a><\/strong> while Brown, up for two trophies, was set to belt out his hit &#8220;Forever&#8221;) they were ready to make a big statement.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Which, ultimately they did. Though likely not the one they were aiming for.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"photo-txt-3\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"38.671328671329\">\n<div class=\"column post-content__image--left post-content__image\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image--full\" src=\"https:\/\/akns-images.eonline.com\/eol_images\/Entire_Site\/2016730\/rs_634x1024-160830102130-634-chris-brown-rihanna-pre-grammy.ls.83016.jpg?fit=inside|900:auto&amp;output-quality=90\" title=\"Rihanna, Chris Brown\" alt=\"Rihanna, Chris Brown\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"image__credits\">Jemal Countess\/WireImage<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-photo-text\" readability=\"18.592493297587\">\n<p>Exactly 10 years ago today, the music world and pop culture enthusiasts everywhere awoke to the news that neither would be donning their red carpet finery that evening.\u00a0The promising young super star (already the recipient of three American Music Awards, three\u00a0Billboard Music Awards and a People&#8217;s Choice Award for Favorite Male Artist) had been arrested following an early morning altercation in their rented\u00a0Lamborghini and his girlfriend was equally incapacitated her face left bloodied, bruised and swollen by his vicious attack.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Photos, later leaked by a person Rihanna would <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanityfair.com\/hollywood\/2015\/10\/rihanna-cover-cuba-annie-leibovitz\" target=\"_blank\">describe\u00a0to <em>Vanity Fair<\/em><\/a> as\u00a0&#8220;a very nasty woman who thought a check was more important than morals,&#8221; showed the extent of the damage and a police report filled in the rest. Brown&#8217;s rage had been relentless: he had punched her repeatedly in the face and arm, even biting her ear all while manuevering their rental down the street. With the car stopped, he put her in a headlock causing her to slowly lose consciousness as she struggled to break free. At one point, according to the police report, he even threatened to kill her.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"photo-txt-4\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"41\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-photo-text\" readability=\"23.428571428571\">\n<p>With the truth laid bare, &#8220;I went from being on top of the world, No. 1 songs, being kind of like America&#8217;s sweetheart to being Public Enemy No. 1,&#8221; Brown recalled years later in his 2017 documentary\u00a0<em>Chris Brown: Welcome to My Life<\/em>. &#8220;I felt like a f&#8211;king monster.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>His fall felt as sudden as it was sharp, but their relationship had actually been on the decline for some time. Years after the teens first connected at a 2004 party in NYC, their bond was tarnished when Rihanna learned Brown had slept with someone else prior to their getting together,\u00a0a situation he had lied about previously.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;My trust totally was lost with her,&#8221; Brown <a href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/music\/chris-brown-opens-up-abuse-rihanna\/\" target=\"_blank\">explained in the film<\/a>. &#8220;She hated me after that. I tried everything, she didn&#8217;t care. She just didn&#8217;t trust me after that. From there, it just went downhill because there were too many verbal fights, physical fights as well. Mutual sides.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"text-6\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"62.014888337469\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-text-only\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"17.441687344913\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/141184\/chris-brown-s-bad-boy-past-two-incidents-before-rihanna-assault\" target=\"_blank\">Probation officer reports<\/a> released after the 2009 incident would reveal they got physical during a late 2008 trip to Europe and that Brown smashed the windows of their rented Range Rover following a dispute in Barbados in January 2009.\u00a0&#8220;We would fight each other. She would hit me, I would hit her and it never was OK,&#8221; he revealed in the doc. They would\u00a0work it out, agreeing to keep their hands to themselves, but that would only last until the next vicious argument.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There was always a point where we&#8217;d talk about it like, &#8216;What the f&#8211;k are we doing?'&#8221; he said. &#8220;Like, &#8216;I don&#8217;t like you slapping me.&#8217; If I go on stage I got a scratch on my face and I gotta explain it like, &#8216;Oh, no I fell.&#8217; If you got a scar or a bruise you gotta put makeup on. I&#8217;m not ever trying to put my hands on any female.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"photo-txt-7\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"43.363138686131\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-photo-text\" readability=\"28.259124087591\">\n<p>The issue, as Rihanna would later put it <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/152494\/rihanna-recounts-brutal-attack-but-says-she-still-loves-chris-brown\" target=\"_blank\">in a November 2009 interview<\/a> with <strong>Diane Sawyer<\/strong> was that their connection went beyond basic infatuation and affection.\u00a0&#8220;He was definitely my first big love. We were best friends,&#8221; she explained. &#8220;We fell in love with each other. To fall in love with you best friend, it can be scary. We just fell really fast. The more in love we became, the more dangerous we became for each other, equally as dangerous, because it was a bit of an obsession almost.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>And with just\u00a0the right spark, that burning passion could easily become explosive.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>On the night of\u00a0music exec <strong>Clive Davis<\/strong>&#8216; legendary pre-Grammy bash,\u00a0that kindkling was a chance encounter with Brown&#8217;s former lover. Though the &#8220;Run It&#8221; singer said he had no idea she would be there, Rihanna was still upset when she approached them at the bash.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The ceremony&#8217;s about to start, she&#8217;s just crying,&#8221; Brown recalled. But he worked his magic. &#8220;She got over it. She started drinking a little bit, we both was drinking a little bit. We were both drinking a little bit, laughing, joking. And then we left.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"text-9\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"70\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-text-only\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"30\">\n<p>Up until that point, everything was fine, Rihanna agreed, later telling Sawyer, &#8220;We had a blast that night.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Then as he was driving them home in the flashy rental, she discovered a lengthy text message from his ex-paramour that she felt showed he knew\u00a0she would be there.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I caught him in a lie and he wouldn&#8217;t tell the truth,&#8221; she told Sawyer. &#8220;I wouldn&#8217;t drop it. I kept saying\u2014I couldn&#8217;t take that he kept lying to me. And he couldn&#8217;t take that I wouldn&#8217;t drop it. Because obviously his back was up against the wall. It&#8217;s, the truth is right here in the text message. So it escalated into him being violent towards me and it was ugly.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>As Brown remembers it, things turned vicious early. &#8220;She starts going off, she throws the phone,&#8221; he said in <em>Welcome to My Life<\/em>. &#8220;&#8216;I hate you.&#8217; Starts hitting me\u2026She hits me a couple of more times and it doesn&#8217;t go from translation to &#8216;let&#8217;s sit down, I&#8217;m telling you the truth.&#8217; It goes to, &#8216;Now, I&#8217;m going to be mean, be evil.'&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"photo-txt-10\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"43\">\n<div class=\"column post-content__image--left post-content__image\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"32\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image--full\" src=\"https:\/\/akns-images.eonline.com\/eol_images\/Entire_Site\/20121125\/634.brown.rihanna.cm.122512.jpg?fit=inside|900:auto&amp;output-quality=90\" title=\" Rihanna, Chris Brown \" alt=\" Rihanna, Chris Brown \"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"image__credits\">ROBYN BECK\/AFP\/Getty Images<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-photo-text\" readability=\"24\">\n<p>Painting her as the instigator, he said, &#8220;I remember she tried to kick me, but then I really hit her, with a closed fist, I punched her. I busted her lip. When I saw it, I was in shock. I was like, &#8216;F&#8211;k, why the hell did I hit her?'&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>But that moment of clarity wasn&#8217;t enough for him to stop.\u00a0&#8220;From there she just spit in my face,&#8221; Brown continued. &#8220;Spit blood in my face and it enraged me even more.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Per the police report, he threatened to beat her when they got home, causing Rihanna to place frantic phone calls and texts to her assistants. The outreach only angered Brown more and he continued his barrage of punches as the vehicle swerved about.\u00a0&#8220;All I kept thinking the whole time, when is it going to stop? When is it going to stop?&#8221; Rihanna\u00a0would relay to Sawyer. &#8220;He had no soul in his eyes. Just blank. He was clearly blacked out. There was no person when I looked at him. I was battered. I was bleeding. I was swollen in my face.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"text-12\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"70.5\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-text-only\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"31\">\n<p>Unable to drive herself, and years away from the advent of Uber, &#8220;There was no way of me getting home,&#8221; she continued. &#8220;Except for my next option was to get out of the car and walk, start walking in a gown and a bloody face. So I really didn&#8217;t know what was my plan. I didn&#8217;t have a plan. That whole night wasn&#8217;t part of my plan.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Eventually, he pulled over, causing Rihanna to grab the keys and pretend to throw them out the window. As Brown went scrambling to locate them,\u00a0&#8220;She yells out her door, &#8216;Help, he&#8217;s trying to kill me.'&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Her screams caught the attention of a neighbor who dialed 911, mercifully bringing the\u00a0horrific\u00a0episode to a halt.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>But, of course, for the young couple this was just the start of their ugly history.\u00a0&#8220;I look back at that picture and I&#8217;m like that&#8217;s not me, bro, that&#8217;s not me. I hate it to this day,&#8221; Brown shared in his doc. &#8220;That&#8217;s going to haunt me forever.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"photo-txt-13\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"39.649700598802\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-photo-text\" readability=\"21.275449101796\">\n<p>The initial aftermath was just as messy as the encounter itself. Using an officer&#8217;s cell, a frantic Rihanna placed phone calls to her manager, personal assistant and two other people, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/103089\/rihanna-met-with-abuse-counselor-used-cop-s-cell-to-make-calls-after-fight-with-brown\" target=\"_blank\">a source told E! News<\/a>,\u00a0but they all went unanswered as no one recognized the number. Within 24 hours, she was meeting\u00a0with an L.A. County domestic-abuse counselor and by early March, Brown (who released a statement insisting he was &#8220;seeking the counseling of my pastor, my mother and other loved ones and I am committed, with God&#8217;s help, to emerging a better person&#8221;) had been charged\u00a0with two felony counts of assault with force likely to produce great bodily injury and making a criminal threat.<\/p>\n<p>But none of that was enough to keep the madly in love duo apart. Sources told E! News, Brown reached out on Rihanna&#8217;s 21st birthday Feb. 20 and a week later, they had met up for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/102161\/chris-brown-reunites-with-rihanna-in-miami\" target=\"_blank\">a rendezvous<\/a> at Sean Combs&#8217;\u00a0nearly 13,000-square-foot Star Island mansion in Miami Beach that they ostensibly had hoped to keep private.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"photo-txt-14\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"42.921779141104\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-photo-text\" readability=\"26.641104294479\">\n<p>Rihanna knew how it looked, what other people thought. Still, going from fully in love to 100 percent over isn&#8217;t an easy switch no matter the circumstances, harder still when the whole world is weighing in.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It was a weird, confusing space to be in, because as angry as I was, as angry and hurt and betrayed, I just felt like he made that mistake because he needed help,&#8221; Rihanna told <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/oprah_winfrey\">Oprah Winfrey<\/a><\/strong> on a 2012 edition of OWN&#8217;s <em>Next Chapter<\/em>. &#8220;And like who&#8217;s gonna help him? Nobody&#8217;s gonna say he needs help.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Because despite his inexcusable actions, Brown was still her best friend, someone she cared deeply about and she knew that few people were in his corner. &#8220;Everybody&#8217;s gonna say he&#8217;s a monster without looking at the source. And I was more concerned about him,&#8221; she told Winfrey.\u00a0&#8220;It\u00a0was hard for me to even pay attention to my mind and figuring things out because now it became a circus and I felt protective.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Their reunion would prove to be short-lived, however.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"text-16\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"73\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-text-only\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"36\">\n<p>&#8220;I resented him so much, and I always put the tough face on&#8230;the &#8216;I can do anything&#8217; face, tried to play it off,&#8221; she later explained to Sawyer. &#8220;But he knew&#8230;He kept asking me, &#8216;You hate me, don&#8217;t you? You hate me,&#8217; and I would lie and say, &#8216;No.'&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The truth, though, was as painful as the experience itself.\u00a0&#8220;Everything about him annoyed me, him being around me, him talking to me. Everything was annoying for me,&#8221; she shared.<\/p>\n<p>That included what she felt was the stilted apology he&#8217;d delivered on YouTube.\u00a0&#8220;I know that he felt really bad,&#8221; she added. &#8220;I just didn&#8217;t know if he understood the extent of what he did. The thing that men don&#8217;t realize, when they hit a woman\u2014the face, the broken arm, the black eye, it&#8217;s going to heal. That&#8217;s not the problem. It&#8217;s the scar inside. You flash back, you remember it all the time. It comes back to you whether you like it or not, and it&#8217;s painful.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Finally, she surmised, &#8220;I just said, &#8216;We can&#8217;t do this. I cannot continue to do this.'&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"block-17-img\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"31\">\n<div class=\"post-content__image\" readability=\"32\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image--full\" src=\"https:\/\/akns-images.eonline.com\/eol_images\/Entire_Site\/2016730\/rs_1024x759-160830134244-10240-chris-brown.jpg?fit=inside|900:auto&amp;output-quality=90\" border=\"0\" title=\"Chris Brown\" alt=\"Chris Brown\" data-width=\"1024\" data-height=\"759\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"image__credits\">Imeh Akpanudosen\/Getty Images for H&amp;M<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"photo-txt-17\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"37.916380297824\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-photo-text\" readability=\"18.238258877434\">\n<p>By June, with reports that Rihanna would testify against her former love, Brown had accepted a plea deal, that consisted of five years of probation, community labor in lieu of jail time and domestic violence counseling. Their relationship\u00a0was firmly\u00a0severed and all that was left were the dueling tell-alls.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A nervous\u00a0Brown went on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/142472\/chris-brown-nobody-taught-rihanna-and-me-how-to-love-one-another\" target=\"_blank\">CNN&#8217;s <em>Larry King Live<\/em><\/a>\u00a0to offer some semblance of an explanation.\u00a0&#8220;I was super nervous,&#8221; he <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mtv.com\/news\/1625664\/chris-brown-tried-to-speak-from-the-heart-after-assault-he-says-in-mtv-news-special\/\" target=\"_blank\">later told MTV<\/a>. &#8220;I did a lot of media training and a lot of stuff like that, and it kind of wasn&#8217;t genuine to me. Everything I was saying was from my heart, but it was kind of controlled. &#8216;Well, don&#8217;t say it like this, because it will look like that&#8230;&#8217; I&#8217;m going to get public scrutiny or criticism regardless of what I say. So I just didn&#8217;t know what was going to be said. I just wanted to let people know how I felt at the end of the day.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"text-19\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"68.5\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-text-only\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"27\">\n<p>Though he made clear he realized just how\u00a0indefensible his actions were,\u00a0he noted their youth and relative relationship inexperience were a factor. Having both grown up witnessing abuse at home, &#8220;Nobody taught us how to love one another. No one taught us a book on how to control our emotions, our anger,&#8221; he told King. &#8220;I&#8217;m not trying to fall on the fact that I&#8217;m young. I&#8217;m just saying it&#8217;s a lot of stuff that I wish I could have changed that night.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Less than two months later, Rihanna sat down with Sawyer, detailing\u00a0what she wish could have been different,\u00a0sharing the shame she felt about putting up with such abuse after watching her mom suffer the same fate at the hands of her father. And while she knew she couldn&#8217;t, shouldn&#8217;t go back, she stopped short of saying she felt any animosity toward her ex.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;No, I don&#8217;t hate him at all,&#8221; she insisted. &#8220;I actually love and care about him and I think, I&#8217;m concerned about him doing well. I want him to do well, have a great career, have a great life.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"photo-txt-20\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"43.493939393939\">\n<div class=\"column post-content__image--left post-content__image\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"32\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image--full\" src=\"https:\/\/akns-images.eonline.com\/eol_images\/Entire_Site\/20161016\/rs_634x1024-161116114844-634-rihanna-american-music-awards-2009.jpg?fit=inside|900:auto&amp;output-quality=90\" title=\"Rihanna, American Music Awards, 2009\" alt=\"Rihanna, American Music Awards, 2009\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"image__credits\">Kevork Djansezian\/Getty Images<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-photo-text\" readability=\"28.93117831074\">\n<p>Which, against all odds, he did, quicker than anyone could have imagined.<\/p>\n<p>Since that initial arrest, Brown has released\u00a0six albums,\u00a0collaborated with the likes of <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/tyga\">Tyga<\/a><\/strong>, <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/zendaya\">Zendaya<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0and <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/dj_khaled\">DJ Khaled<\/a><\/strong>, toured with <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/50_cent\">50 Cent<\/a><\/strong>, earned\u00a0a role in\u00a0<em>Think Like a Man<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0a guest spot in ABC&#8217;s\u00a0<em>Black-ish<\/em>\u00a0and wrangled no less than <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/jennifer_lopez\">Jennifer Lopez<\/a><\/strong>, <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/rita_ora\">Rita Ora<\/a><\/strong>, <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/usher\">Usher<\/a><\/strong> and <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/jamie_foxx\">Jamie Foxx<\/a><\/strong> to speak lovingly of him on his documentary.<\/p>\n<p>His first release post-incident, <em>Graffiti<\/em>, came out just\u00a010 months later and netted him two Grammy nods. His next, 2011&#8217;s <em>F.A.M.E.<\/em>\u00a0debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 200 and earned him his only Grammy to date. He&#8217;s also collected\u00a017 BET and BET Hip-Hop Awards and performed on <em>The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon<\/em>,\u00a0<em>Jimmy Kimmel Live<\/em>\u00a0and <em>Saturday Night Live<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>That level of forgiveness would be impressive even if his altercation with Rihanna was his only transgression. After all, he&#8217;s apologized for the situation, offered up full remorse.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"photo-txt-21\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"42.906896551724\">\n<div class=\"column post-content__image--left post-content__image\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"32\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image--full\" src=\"https:\/\/akns-images.eonline.com\/eol_images\/Entire_Site\/2013110\/634.2brown.ls.21013_copy.jpg?fit=inside|900:auto&amp;output-quality=90\" title=\"Chris Brown, Grammys\" alt=\"Chris Brown, Grammys\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"image__credits\">Jordan Strauss\/Invision\/AP<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-photo-text\" readability=\"27.934686672551\">\n<p>Or, as he put it in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/fr\/news\/594021\/chris-brown-talks-all-things-rihanna-the-assault-their-relationship-drake-and-more-watch-now\" target=\"_blank\">a\u00a02014 interview<\/a>\u00a0on Hot 97&#8217;s Ebro In The Morning radio show,\u00a0&#8220;I feel like through the years, I&#8217;ve said [I f&#8211;ked up] enough now to where it&#8217;s like, bro if you&#8217;re still on that then I feel sorry for y&#8217;all, because it&#8217;s over with. I don&#8217;t have animosity about it. Obviously I have remorse about it and it&#8217;s something that&#8217;s really serious, but as far as the situation\u2014like me and her, we made amends, we good.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>And the worst mistake of his life could have easily faded into the background, considering even Rihanna forgave him enough to give their romance another go in 2013, if he didn&#8217;t keep making headlines.<\/p>\n<p>Cataloging\u00a0Brown&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1007294\/a-recap-of-chris-brown-s-rollercoaster-legal-history\" target=\"_blank\">every legal issue and angry outburst<\/a>\u00a0is quite the task. Before completing the probation for his 2009 assault in March 2015, he logged some eight months in jail between 2013 and 2014 for violations.<\/p>\n<p>And there was plenty of other questionable behavior in between. First, there was the infamous 2011 <em>Good Morning America<\/em> interview with <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/robin_roberts\">Robin Roberts<\/a><\/strong> that left him <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/232205\/chris-brown-suffers-rihanna-powered-meltdown-backstage-at-gma\" target=\"_blank\">so aggrieved<\/a>, he tried to throw something through the window of his dressing room before stomping out shirtless.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"block-22-img\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"31\">\n<div class=\"post-content__image\" readability=\"32\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image--full\" src=\"https:\/\/akns-images.eonline.com\/eol_images\/Entire_Site\/2014217\/rs_1024x759-140317155939-1024.Chris-Brown-Mark-Geragos-Court-LA.ms.031714.jpg?fit=inside|900:auto&amp;output-quality=90\" border=\"0\" title=\"Chris Brown, Mark Geragos\" alt=\"Chris Brown, Mark Geragos\" data-width=\"1024\" data-height=\"759\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"image__credits\">Lucy Nicholson-Pool\\Getty Images<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"photo-txt-22\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"33.936799184506\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-photo-text\" readability=\"18.20998980632\">\n<p>Then the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/323430\/chris-brown-bar-brawl-with-drake-was-it-over-rihanna\" target=\"_blank\">2012 brawl<\/a> with <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/drake\">Drake<\/a><\/strong>&#8216;s entourage at an NYC nightclub that left NBA standout <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/tony_parker\">Tony Parker<\/a><\/strong> with a shard of glass in his eye. There was also a 2013\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/474632\/chris-brown-arrested-and-jailed-for-felony-assault-in-washington-d-c\" target=\"_blank\">assault arrest<\/a>\u00a0in Washington, D.C.\u00a0when he\u00a0didn&#8217;t want to take a picture with two men, a 2016\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/791228\/chris-brown-arrested-and-charged-with-assault-with-a-deadly-weapon\" target=\"_blank\">standoff with police<\/a>\u00a0where he refused them entry to his Los Angeles home despite their warrant and a lawsuit that same year from a former manager\u00a0alleging assault and battery.<\/p>\n<p>In 2017,\u00a0Brown, who&#8217;s been diagnosed with bipolar disorder and PTSD, according to public court records,\u00a0was hit with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/861230\/karrueche-tran-granted-permanent-restraining-order-against-chris-brown\" target=\"_blank\">a permanent restraining order<\/a> from ex-girlfriend <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/karrueche_tran\">Karrueche Tran<\/a><\/strong> and accused of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/844003\/chris-brown-punches-photographer-at-florida-nightclub\" target=\"_blank\">punching a nightclub photographer<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>And just\u00a0last month he was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1007135\/chris-brown-detained-over-rape-accusation-in-paris\" target=\"_blank\">detained by police<\/a>\u00a0in Paris over accusations of aggravated rape and drug offenses. He was released hours later and his attorney <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1007533\/chris-brown-plans-to-sue-rape-accuser-for-defamation\" target=\"_blank\">filed a lawsuit<\/a> against his accuser for making false accusations, with Brown taking to Instagram to clear his name on a photo that stated, &#8220;THIS B&#8211;CH LYIN.'&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"photo-txt-23\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"40.744131455399\">\n<div class=\"column post-content__image--left post-content__image\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image--full\" src=\"https:\/\/akns-images.eonline.com\/eol_images\/Entire_Site\/2019023\/rs_634x1024-190123174636-634-chris-brown-ammika-harris-paris.jpg?fit=inside|900:auto&amp;output-quality=90\" title=\"Chris Brown, Ammika Harris\" alt=\"Chris Brown, Ammika Harris\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"image__credits\">Best Image \/ BACKGRID<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-photo-text\" readability=\"23.945349952061\">\n<p>Maybe not the best of looks, but over the years Brown has proven to have something of a teflon reputation, thanks to the unwavering support of his Team Breezy fan base and more than a few of his contemporaries. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/justin_bieber\">Justin Bieber<\/a><\/strong>, for example, was among those <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1007604\/justin-bieber-praises-chris-brown-amid-rape-accusations\" target=\"_blank\">to comment<\/a> on Brown&#8217;s social media after he was detained in Paris, writing, &#8220;No one can touch you ur the GOAT.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>As for Rihanna, count her as indifferent.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Their love burned strong enough for her to give a romantic relationship another go in 2013, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/rihanna-on-chris-brown-we-know-exactly-what-we-have-now-179840\" target=\"_blank\">telling <em>Rolling Stone<\/em><\/a>, &#8220;I wasn&#8217;t going to let anybody&#8217;s opinion get in the way of that. Even if it&#8217;s a mistake, it&#8217;s my mistake. After being tormented for so many years, being angry and dark, I&#8217;d rather just live my truth and take the backlash. I can handle it.&#8221; As for any worries Brown would lay a hand on her again, &#8220;That&#8217;s just not an option. I can&#8217;t say that nothing else will ever go wrong. But I&#8217;m pretty solid in the knowing that he&#8217;s disgusted by that. And I wouldn&#8217;t have gone this far if I ever thought that was a possibility.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"photo-txt-24\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"44.475703324808\">\n<div class=\"column post-content__image--left post-content__image\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image--full\" src=\"https:\/\/akns-images.eonline.com\/eol_images\/Entire_Site\/2013121\/634.RihannaChrisTwitPic5.mh.022113.jpg?fit=inside|900:auto&amp;output-quality=90\" title=\"Rihanna, Chris Brown, Twit Pic\" alt=\"Rihanna, Chris Brown, Twit Pic\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"image__credits\">Instagram<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-photo-text\" readability=\"32.158211521926\">\n<p>Ultimately, though, simply knowing you can trust a\u00a0companion not to harm you physically is not enough to sustain a successful partnership.<\/p>\n<p>Admitting <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanityfair.com\/hollywood\/2015\/10\/rihanna-cover-cuba-annie-leibovitz\" target=\"_blank\">to\u00a0<em>Vanity Fair<\/em> in 2015<\/a> she was &#8220;that girl&#8221; who felt she could change a man, she shared, &#8220;You realize after a while that in that situation you&#8217;re the enemy. You want the best for them, but if you remind them of their failures, or if you remind them of bad moments in their life, or even if you say I&#8217;m willing to put up with something, they think less of you\u2014because they know you don&#8217;t deserve what they&#8217;re going to give. And if you put up with it, maybe you are agreeing that you [deserve] this, and that&#8217;s when I finally had to say, &#8216;Uh-oh, I was stupid thinking I was built for this.&#8217; Sometimes you just have to walk away.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In the years since,\u00a0the nine-time Grammy winner, who has branched out into acting and business with the 2017 launch of Fenty Beauty, has\u00a0had few regrets.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Though Brown has remained just on her periphery, at times riling up her fanbase by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/990364\/chris-brown-comments-on-rihanna-s-sexy-instagram-pic-and-fans-are-not-having-it\" target=\"_blank\">commenting on her Instas<\/a> or, as he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/912949\/chris-brown-says-he-wants-to-tour-with-rihanna-beyonce-and-bruno-mars\" target=\"_blank\">boldly suggested<\/a> a year ago, proposing they go on tour together, he&#8217;s firmly in the rearview of her life.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"text-26\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"63.926028921023\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-text-only\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"18.830923248053\">\n<p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t hate him,&#8221; she insisted to <em>Vanity Fair<\/em>. &#8220;I will care about him until the day I die. We&#8217;re not friends, but it&#8217;s not like we&#8217;re enemies. We don&#8217;t have much of a relationship now.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Having since <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/991501\/rihanna-and-hassan-jameel-s-latest-date-night-shuts-down-all-those-split-rumors\" target=\"_blank\">moved on<\/a> with billionaire businessman <strong>Hassan Jameel<\/strong>, she credits her uncomfortable past with helping her truly understand her worth. &#8220;Men are afraid to be men. They think being a real man is actually being a p&#8212;y, that if you take a chair out for a lady, or you&#8217;re nice or even affectionate to your girl in front of your boys, you&#8217;re less of a man,&#8221; she opined to the mag, years before she would connect with Jameel. &#8220;It&#8217;s so sick. They won&#8217;t be a gentleman because that makes them appear soft. That&#8217;s what we&#8217;re dealing with now, a hundred percent, and girls are settling for that, but I won&#8217;t. I will wait forever if I have to\u2026but that&#8217;s O.K. You have to be screwed over enough times to know.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1011888\/reliving-the-moment-everything-unraveled-for-chris-brown-and-rihanna?cmpid=rss-000000-rssfeed-365-topstories&#038;utm_source=eonline&#038;utm_medium=rssfeeds&#038;utm_campaign=rss_topstories\" target=\"_blank\">via:: E! Online<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Christopher Polk\/Getty Images For a few years there, Chris Brown seemed primed to be the pop star of his generation.\u00a0 His self-titled debut moved more than 3 million copies after its 2005 release, he scored acting roles in Stomp the Yard, This Christmas and on The O.C. and even released a hit single, &#8220;No Air&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-267053","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-17 12:21:25","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KIDN - The Lift FM","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267053","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=267053"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267053\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=267053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=267053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=267053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}