Originally posted Friday November 06, 2009 09:00 AM EST
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She says all she kept thinking was, "When is it going to stop? When is it going to stop? He had no soul in his eyes. Just blank. He was clearly blacked-out. There was no person when I looked at him."
The fight, she says, started when Brown received a text message from another woman while they were driving away from a Grammy Awards party.
"I caught him in a lie, and he wouldn't tell the truth. And I wouldn't drop it," Rihanna tells Diane Sawyer in the interview, portions of which aired Friday morning on Good Morning America.
"I couldn't take that he kept lying to me, and he couldn't take that I wouldn't drop it … It escalated into him being violent towards me. And it was ugly."
How ugly? "I was battered, I was bleeding, I was swollen in my face," she says.
Their Love Spelled Danger
She felt trapped. "My next option was to get out of the car and walk, start walking in a gown and a bloody face," she says. "I didn't have a plan. That whole night was not part of my plan."Rihanna believes now that the passionate love affair between the young couple - she was 20 at the time, he was 19 - was an unhealthy one. "The more in love we became, the more dangerous we became for each other, equally dangerous," she says. "Because it was a bit of an obsession."
She also discusses how she eventually broke things off with Brown, and how she feels about him today.
"Love doesn't go away right away," she says. "He didn't accept that very well. Obviously he didn't want us to be apart. But I had to make a decision for me."
Does she hate Brown now? "No, I don't hate him at all," she says. "I actually love and care about him. I want him to do well, have a great career, have a great life and grow up. And just take this as something you had to go through to grow up and learn."
http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20318115,00.html
Rihanna on Chris Brown: "He Had No Soul in His Eyes"
Friday - November 06, 2009 - 10:02am
Chris Brown was "blank" and "blacked out," the night he brutally beat ex-girlfriend Rihanna, she recounts to Diane Sawyer in a new interview.
"It wasn't the same person that says I love you. It was not those ... eyes," the singer, 21, says. "He had no soul in his eyes. Just blank... He was clearly blacked out. There was no person when I looked at him."
Rihanna says Brown, 20, put her in a headlock twice and bit her on the ear and fingers on Feb. 8, the night before the Grammys, in L.A. Brown was sentenced to five years of probation, six months of community service and one year of domestic violence counseling for his actions.
Despite Brown's public apology to his ex-girlfriend -- via an Internet video -- last July, Rihanna tells Sawyer she never really forgave him.
"I just said to him, 'I can't do this.' I resented him," she says. "I always put the tough face on and try to, I can do anything face, and just try to play it off. But he knew."
She admits that she lied to him after the February incident, claiming she didn't hate him. "He kept asking me, 'You hate me, don't you?'" Rihanna says. "And I would lie and I would say, 'No, no.' And... I did hate him. Everything about him annoyed me."
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Of the pair's brief reunion in Miami nearly three weeks after the attack, the singer says she was blinded by love -- and admits she made a mistake.
"I went through a host of emotions," she tells Sawyer. "It was confusing for me. I was still attached by love. But I wasn't thinking about the reality of the situation."
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Why speak out publicly now, two weeks before the Nov. 23 release of her third album, Rated R?
"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," Rihanna tells ABC. "I don't want that five years from now every time they see Rihanna, they think of Chris Brown beating me. That's
not who I am. It's just one thing that happened to me."
http://www.usmagazine.com/celebritynews/news/rihanna-on-chris-brown-he-had-no-soul-in-his-eyes-2009611
I'm just a cynic and tend to see the bad outcome in a lot. 
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