Rihanna Calls Chris Brown the Love of Her Life (VIDEO)

By On 08/20/2012 · 25 Comments · In American Idol

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Pop star Rihanna tells Oprah that she still loves Chris Brown. In fact, in an interview on Oprah’s Next Chapter last night, the pop star called Brown the love of her life.

“We’re very, very close friends,” says Rihanna. “We built a trust again and that’s it. We love each other and we probably always will. And that’s not anything that we’re gonna try to change. It’s not something you can shut off if you’ve ever been in love.”

The two have maintained a friendship after the restraining order was dropped. Hm.

 
  • http://twitter.com/esqape Zach

    5 years from now: “Rihanna found strangled to death in private home in the bahama’s”

    Just gonna stand there and watch me burn well that’s alright because I like the way it hurts. Guess this is true for Rihanna.

  • Anonymous

    It’s her life and I love, love, love her music… but, I’ve had experience with family members who won’t stay out of contact with their abusive exes. It’s usually a sign of someone feeling like they deserve that type of treatment. I really wish RiRi the best, because staying so close to him could lead to even bigger heartbreak down the road.

  • pj

    I can’t watch the video right now, but I find it very sad that she  has continued to see him, even though he beat her up and has other girlfriends.  Why does her family not step up and try to talk some sense to her? He is an arrogant asshole who beats women. I don’t see the attraction.

    ETA: And Oprah? Really? You give her a platform to excuse his abuse? Disappointed.

  • http://twitter.com/tinawinabina Tinawina

    She grew up watching her dad beat her mom. Chris Brown grew up watching his stepdad beat his mom. Neither of them ever properly processed what they saw, apparently. So now we get what we get.

    It’s just sad.

  • too-cool-for-school

    I kinda doubt that they ever really broke up. They were quiet and played along maybe with all of the media coverage but never really intended on separating.

    They seem like hurt people and troubled in a lot of the same ways. That kind of unhealthy codependency is not uncommon and they know what they’re doing, but sadly in this case it sends a terrible message to both of their groups of fans.

    To her fans, that you can stay with an abusive person. And to his, that you can abuse a person and still keep them. Sad… really sad.

  • http://profile.yahoo.com/XDQP2Y46M5B3OHOKALDDGDHQCM Leandro

    “I kinda doubt that they ever really broke …” the only thing that was broken was her face. She never broke up with Chris, Drake, Matt Kemp, Rick Ross and the lsit goes on and on

  • Anonymous

    It breaks my heart.  They have decided. 
    It takes so much work and so much energy to break away from that kind of codependency.  To redefine what love is and to feel like you deserve more.  It takes a lot of help.
    It is likely there will be a “next time”.  I hope she will be alright.

  • http://twitter.com/doesmonaknow DoesMonaKnow

    Rihanna and Chris broke up in the sense that they dated other people but they have probably been in contact longer than they have let on.

    I’m not sure what Jay-Z has to do with anything.

  • too-cool-for-school

    Regardless, they have been in contact and that was my point. I don’t think their relationship (whether it be romantically or in terms of friendship) ever really ended, as she declares that they will never try to change their love. So I take it that they never did, and never will according to her.

    So any indication put out there that she had moved on or gotten freedom from him was all a farce.

  • s k

    I’ve never heard that Chris Brown beat up other girlfriends?? where did you hear that? 

    Reality is, the more her family and friends try to pull her away from him the more she’ll fight to be with him.  She has to be one to see how destructive their relationship is. 

    He could get help and change and have a healthy relationship in the future with somone else but NEVER with RiRi.  Their default position in the relationship will always be one of abuse when things start to go wrong.  That’s why you leave the first time they hit you and you never go back no matter how tempting it is.

  • Anonymous

    Both are sick individual — she for putting up with abuse, and he for abusing.

  • Anonymous

    Very sad indeed. It’s also very common, and very stupid. She is in dire need of help. I don’t see her getting it any time soon.

  • Axxxel

    5 years from now, Rihanna flees away from Chris Brown, holding in her arms her and Chris’ daughter who was beaten by Chris Brown… She finally admits that “enough is enough”…

  • Axxxel

    Yeah, poor them… and it will take a lifetime for their wounds to be healed.

  • Anonymous

    I found Rihanna’s statements both sad and touching. She seems to still be in love with Chris Brown, yet I did not get the impression she is still sleeping with him (am I being naive?).  Fall in love with someone else, Rihanna! (I love her song “Where have you been?”)

  • pj

     I don’t know if he beat up other girlfriends.  I wouldn’t be shocked.  I meant that she has been seeing him on the sly (according to the gossip sites) while he’s been dating other women. 

    It’s hard for me to muster up any sympathy for Chris Brown.  He comes off as a douche in interviews, etc. 

    As for Oprah, she must be desperate to sanction this.  :-(

  • s k

    A man who abuses a woman won’t automatically beat his daughter just because she’s female. 

    It’s a sad enough situation without all the overdramatics of making up worst case scenerios for the future. 

  • Anonymous

    Guess she Loves the Way He Lies. . . .

  • RockiDreams

    Both of them are douches.  And from personal experience they don’t change, they do it over and over again and yes, even to their daughters when they get tired of the wife/girlfriend.  Left and never ever looked back.

  • Anonymous

    The entertainment sites and mags have been reporting for months that they still see each other. Rihanna just confirmed what they have been saying. I predict they will get back together again as Rihanna can’t let go for whatever reason. Their relationship is not going to end. It is their life.

  • Axxxel

    Yeah, sorry for that… Maybe I just want to say that sometimes people do put up with domestic violence for years… but when it is aimed at their children, then all of a sudden they can’t take it anymore…

    I just hope that Rihanna and Chris Brown (yeah, even him) will find happiness without violence someday…

  • http://twitter.com/MissGolightly22 No Thanks

    I agree.  Rihanna doesn’t know anything different.  For her this is “normal”.  She even admits she’s drawn to the dark and dangerous.  Probably because that’s what she grew up with. Plus she’s stubborn and prideful.  The more people tell her she can’t do it, the more she’ll do it.

  • Anonymous

    How sad. And rumor has it she has developed some dependencies – alcohol. I don’t know if that rumor is true, but given what I just watched it would not surprise me. So sad. I wish she could see it. I hope she does someday.

  • rodolfochengcanepa

    I agree, she wants to be murdered. I think she was the writer of jessica´s coronation song “change nothing”.

  • http://www.fatladysings.us/ TFLS

    Wow.  Just wow.  I hope like hell she doesn’t have kids anytime soon.  The girl needs some time with a qualified (read not ‘celebrity’) psychiatrist.