Rihanna Topless on New GQ Cover

By Amanda Pendolino on December 15th, 2009

rihanna-gq-1 In case you didn’t already know Rihanna is sexy, and she bares almost all of that sexiness in the January 2010 issue of GQ. The article’s titled “Good Girl Gone Badass,” but spends a lot of time on her emotions surrounding her assault by ex-boyfriend Chris Brown.

She says that talking about her experience with domestic violence has been “very liberating. It’s relieving. Because it was built up for so long, and all these thoughts and emotions have been running through my mind for the past eight months. And now it’s like I finally get to let go and move on.”

She also says she learned that “love is blind. It took a lot of strength to pull out of that relationship. To finally just officially cut it off. It was like night and day. It was two different worlds. It was the world I lived for two years, and then having the strength to say, “I’m gonna step into my own world. Start over.”

Even still, she hasn’t closed herself off from love or relationships. “I can trust,” she says. “I don’t like to stereotype; I believe everybody’s an individual. You can’t judge someone based on someone else’s actions. There are people in the world who will love you and people in the world who will hurt you, and there are people in the world who will do both.”