Rihanna leaving Wonderland nightclub in Hollywood (11/4)

Rihanna has finally broken her silence. She spoke with Good Morning America's Diane Sawyer this morning about her new CD Rated R that drops in two weeks the infamous night Chris Brown whooped that ass. From ABC News:

"It was a wake-up call. It was a wake-up call for me. Big time. I will say that to any young girl who is going through domestic violence, don't react off of love. F love. Come out of the situation and look at it in the third person and for what it really is."

The pop star said it was "embarrassing" that Brown was the type of person she fell in love with.

"So far in love. So unconditional that I went back. It's humiliating to say this happened. To accept that? It's a traumatizing experience," she said. "I stayed. I even went back after he beat me, which was wrong. But again ... I'm a human being and people put me on a very unrealistic pedestal. And all these expectations, I'm not perfect." 

After months of silence since the February beating, Rihanna decided to speak publicly about the ordeal so she can be a voice to help others who may be in danger of returning to abuse.

"It's completely normal to go back. It's not right. I learned the hard way, but again, this is what I want people to know," she said. "When I realized that my selfish decision for love could result in some young girl getting killed, I could not be easy with that part. I couldn't be held responsible for going back. Even if Chris never hit me again, who is to say that their boyfriend won't? Who's to say that they won't kill these girls? These are young girls and I just didn't realize how much of an impact I had on these girls' lives until that happened."

In other news, Rodell Vereen of South Carolina was sentenced to three years in prison yesterday after he was caught having sex with a 21-year-old horse named Sugar for the second time in two years. I guess you could say Rodell has a real "sweet tooth." *rimshot* . . . I know this doesn't have anything to do with Rihanna or Chris Brown but I thought this story could use a little lightening up. It's traumatizing this, it's humiliating that, he hit me, he choked me, it hurt, geesh, she can be such a Debbie Downer sometimes!

[Pacific Coast News]