Rihanna on “Good Morning America”: It was a “Wake-Up Call”
Rihanna is finally breaking her silence about being assaulted by ex-boyfriend Chris Brown – and she’s got a lot to say. In addition to her insightful Glamour interview that came out yesterday, today she told Diane Sawyer on Good Morning America that the whole experience was a “wake-up call.”
In her first television interview since the widely-publicized abuse, the 21 year-old said, “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.”
Rihanna said that love is what blinded her and prevented her from making the right decision (leaving Chris). “So far in love,” she said. ”So unconditional that I went back. It’s humiliating to say this happened. To accept that? It’s a traumatizing experience.”
“I stayed. I even went back after he beat me, which was wrong,” she said. “But again…I’m a human being and people put me on a very unrealistic pedestal. And all these expectations, I’m not perfect.”
She’s speaking out now in the hopes that others won’t make that same decision, won’t suffer through domestic abuse as long as she did. “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.”
