Ugh, I just don’t know what to think of this story. Yesterday, Kaiser brought us the comparatively blissful news of Rihanna’s blunt-filled Hawaiin vacation, which seems so peaceful that I’m using more of those photos. However, danger may be lurking just around the corner (figuratively) in the form of Chris Brown, who does have a confirmed girlfriend who would ideally prevent his story from being true. However, Kaiser reminded me that Chris was allegedly hooking up with Kelly Rowland while on tour last year, so maybe that establishes a pattern of cheating that would mean he’d have no problems with casual hookups with someone else too . . . such as Rihanna. Of course, RiRi herself has already admitted that she still admires Chris even though he beat her senseless.
Until now, I’ve always maintained that Rihanna would never actually go back to Chris for the simple reason that her handlers won’t let them get close because of publicity reasons. A true reunion would be awful for her career, but does that leave out the possibility of occasional hookups? Us Weekly seems to believe that this has been the case for the past year:
February 8 marks the three-year anniversary of Chris Brown’s infamous assault of then-girlfriend Rihanna.
And it turns out that the exes — forcibly separated after the beating by court order — could very well be spending that “anniversary” together. As multiple sources confirm in the new Us Weekly, Rihanna, 23, and Brown, 22, have secretly been hooking up for nearly a year.
The edgy, platinum-selling “We Found Love” singer and Brown “meet up very casually,” a Brown confidante says. “She comes to see him anytime she’s in L.A.”
Explains a music industry source: “They can’t get enough of each other. I don’t see it ending well.”
“Rihanna loves to live dangerously, and talking to and hooking up with Chris is all part of that,” adds a Rihanna insider.
The clandestine relationship isn’t just complicated because of the couple’s violent past; the “Forever” crooner also has a girlfriend, aspiring model Karrueche Tran.
“He and Rihanna are just friends,” Brown’s rep tells Us. “He’s not cheating.” Rihanna’s rep had no comment.
[From Us Weekly]
At this point, I am starting to believe that Rihanna isn’t above hooking up with her abusive ex for a thrill, but I hope she truly isn’t that stupid. Maybe she really is lured by the cycle of violence and misinterprets it as “exciting.” Hopefully, this is merely baseless gossip on a slow news day though. While in Hawaii, Rihanna’s been tweeting about her hot chef. She should hook up with him instead.
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Explain to me why a gorgeous, rich and famous young woman feels the need to return to a guy who beat the @#!& out of her? I just don’t get it and find it hard to sympathize with – or even like – her after hearing this.
It’s a sickness, just like any other addiction. Stockholm Syndrome.
In an abusive relationship, the victim can see the violence as a measure of the other person’s “passion/love” for them and the abuser is very good at getting the victim to believe it was their fault. If only she didn’t upset him, disrespect him and other crap like that. A real man who loves her and is normal seems so boring and doesn’t give her the adrenalin rush like the relationship with the abuser does. If she’s used to the chaos (I think her father was violent with her mother), then normal doesn’t push her buttons like abuse would. Pretty sad.
If I remember correctly her father might have abused her mother. She probably has a lot of issues.
She’s gross. And if she’s still hooking up with him, she’s gross and stupid.
She is so icky and gross.
speechless….
He can’t be THAT good in bed (ewww, *shudder*). I don’t know what’s going on inside that head of hers but she needs to get over Chris. Easier said than done I guess…
She went OFF on her twitter when the news about Chris getting a tattoo of his new gf’s face – of course those tweets have been removed but I saw it on either Bossip or Media Takeout.
I don’t doubt for a moment that they’ve been hooking up.
My gf got the shit kicked out of her by her bf and I found out that she had been making phone calls to him while there was a restraining order in place because she felt “bad” about him being arrested. I think both my gf and RiRi need some serious therapy.
What did she go off about? Was she pissed about the tattoo?
She pretty much said his abuse f-ed with her head and caused her to have trust issues. A very weird thing to tweet to someone you’ve had no relationship with for the last three years. I tend to believe they have been seeing each other in secret. He probably told her he wasn’t serious with this girl and then Rihanna hears about the tat and realizes its much more serious than he’s let on to her. Hence the tweet.
Pot ain’t making her a dopehead… hooking back up with Chris is.
Amen.
Rihanna clearly has some issues that need to be worked through – but as long as she’s pumping out hits and making money, who’s really going to attend to those issues? Same shit, different star. So so many of them have the same story. Unless you shave your head and attack cars with an umbrella (and even that wasn’t enough for Britney), the ‘yes men’ keep pushing. So sad.
This is so true. As long as she appears to be functioning and doing what she’s told then it’s okay in their eyes. The girl didn’t even get a chance to work through any of it. She got beat, had some people trying to get them back together, did some interviews and went back to work. That’s not how you work through a traumatic event like that.
I completely believe if it hadn’t been for the bad pr she would’ve gone back to him. I just don’t think she gets it. Not just this I don’t think she gets a lot of stuff when you read interviews or listen to her.
Idk if it’s age or sheltered existence or what.
This! I remember early on she was full of life and really excited about everything. I think that’s been sucked out of her over the years. Her and Chris both grew up in abusive homes and became famous around the same time. She probably feels that he’s the only one who “gets” her.
Now I understand the rumors of Brand and Perry saying she needs to quit partying and get help. The partying isn’t making her any smarter; i.e., she’s hanging out with the Abuser, so the first thing would be to quit drinking if it’s making her do such idiotic things.
He’d be stupid do it as he’s just getting his career back on track. She’s always going to come out looking like the victim (justifiably so) even if she’s the one pursuing him because she’s bored and needs some excitement in her life.
Therein lies the reason she hooks up with the Abuser.
She needs to spend some serious time with a therapist.
I think this story is typical gossip mag b/s but I agree with you. She grew up in a home with a crack head father who beat her mother. So, it would make sense that drama, fighting and violence is confronting to her because it is all she know. People who grow up in homes like her usually continue the cycle of abuse by entering abusive relationships or becoming abusers themselves. If she wants to stop the cycle, she needs to seek help.
I agree! This is the cycle of abuse. She needs to get help for herself. And if she didn’t go back with him because of the public image, that just says that it was because of how she was being perceived and not because that was the right, mentally healthy thing to do.
US Weekly is a GOSSIP magazine. Ppl need to learn rumors does not equate to the truth.
Does Celebitchy not read CDAN? This was already revealed.
Three things:
Totally believe they’ve been hooking up. Sad.
She was SO much lovelier & sophisticated with her striking, short black hair. Now she just looks…trashy to me.
Lastly and quite cattily, she needs to address the scabs and whatnot on her legs. Gross.
That is all.
Those bruises and scabs on her legs were the first thing I noticed. They look worse than crackhead Lohan’s legs.
Yeah, what’s up with those nastily-bruised legs?
CB has gone from punching to kicking. I’ve always thought she was kind of trashy except most trashy girls aren’t that stupid.
Theres been a few blind items about this and I believe CDAN revealed it to be her and CB.
Doesnt surprise me one bit. Im not condoning what happened with her and CB in any way but lets be real, she would not still be on the charts if it had not been for that incident. She gained a lot of sympathy supporters b/c of that. It certainly isnt from her vocal abilities. Something isnt right when most people you talk to cant stand her voice and yet she’s being played every other song on the radio. If it isnt one of hers its one with her on it.
But it was that way before the incident too. She’s popular.
It’s so funny when people who don’t like Rihanna or CB fans says that she is only popular because of the “incident”. Newsflash she was popular way before she started dating Breezy, I mean her first song reach # 2 on the billboard charts for Christ sake and she has not stop since then. People like her because she puts out very good dance tracks and has that “it” factor that stars always wish to have. It’s like Britney, she’s no musical genius but people love her because she has “that thing” that grabs you. I don’t think the “incident” made Rihanna into a superstar, she was already on her way there long before she met CB.
I feel bad saying it, but yeah, I think she’s stupid enough.
I hate to say this because I have been in Rihanna’s shoes. But I think she wants to hook up with Chris again and I believe that Chris is over it and trying to move on with his new girlfriend and Rihanna is trying really hard to make her go away.
I don’t know what happened between these two but obviously they are toxic for one another, between the way Rihanna ranted on her twitter the other day and everything that has happened, it is pretty obvious that these two cannot and never will be able to conduct a healthy relationship. Maybe Chris has changed his ways, though I truly doubt it. Rihanna needs to do her part and that part get help so she can move past what happened to her and be able to sustain healthy relationships in the future.
Trust me, finding a therapist who can deal with post dv issues is essential once you are out of that relationship. My parents got me in as soon as my RO was made permanent and without the support of friends and family I do not know how I would have worked through it. I don’t know if Rihanna has that support but I hope she can find it if she does.
I doubt they are hooking up for the simple reason CB wouldn’t hesitate to out them. He’d take pictures. He’d leak the pictures, then he would laugh at all the people who were hating on him for hitting Rhianna.
With her history with CB & her family, she probably needs counseling, but won’t get it. And it isn’t uncommon for abuse victims to go back to their abusers until the cycle is broken by the abuser or the abused.
Unless he also has a girlfriend he would rather keep that info from.
Correct me of I’m wrong, but wasn’t there a no contact order (up until recently)? I doubt he would release pictures of the two of them if it put him in violation of said order.
Rhianna asked for it to be dropped because they are in the same industry & would be at the same events. The judge denied her request at the time, but eventually dropped it once Chris completed his sentence.
To quote one of our court bailiffs “them island girls are craycray”
I’m tired of hearing that. Also because all of Chris’ supporters keep saying that. Not all Island girls are crazy and it’s not any excuse.
As much as I admire her beauty and fashion sense, RiRi will always be a classic chickenhead like Nicole, Simpson and other women who refuse to break the cycle or hook up with dudes who you know have major issues.
She is in a downward spiral because she doesn’t believe in boundaries when it comes to love. Back in the day you did not talk about domestic abuse but the Burning Tree changed a lot of that and there just aren’t enough excuses women can come up with these days to put up with it. She totally would have went back.
As much as I admire her beauty and fashion sense, RiRi will always be a classic chickenhead like Nicole, Simpson and other women who refuse to break the cycle or hook up with dudes who you know have major issues.
She is in a downward spiral because she doesn’t believe in boundaries when it comes to love. Back in the day you did not talk about domestic abuse but the Burning Tree changed a lot of that and there just aren’t enough excuses women can come up with these days to put up with it. She totally would have went back.
From what I know Nicole Simpson did end her relationship with OJ. So I’m not sure why she is being called a chicken head. Plus I’m not sure what the Burning Tree is…were you meaning the Burning Bed? About the woman who was completely abused by her husband? Being a victim of domestic abuse usually comes from a cycle of witnessing abuse in the home at an early age. These children think that this is the norm and it takes years of therapy to break this cycle. I don’t believe women or even men give excuses as to why they tolerate it. I think they are programmed to tolerate it.
The Burning Bed with Farrah Fawcett! I knew it sounded off. Lol
Nicole was a chicken head for hooking up with him in the first place since he was married with children. Her golddigging parents had no problem with this because they saw those baller millions. Also, she was a druggie. Chicken. HEAD. She got away but…well my theory is that OJs son did it but that’s a whole other catfish to wrestle.
That is another reason why I was upset at the family’s outrage, indignation and tears. Be mad at yourself because when he was beaing the shit out of her and taking him back they took all of the freebies and lived lovely placating. Nothing worse than that. My uncle beat my aunt senseless and while we couldn’t make her leave he was never welcomed at any of our functions and nobody accepted his bribes. And we left his church where he was a pastor.
I know that the first time violence happens you might try to work it out and I don’t judge for that because it really might be a one time thing. But when that shit starts up on the regular, you gotta make a choice. And people choose to stay for all kinds of reasons that I get from their point of view, but I just can’t be that girl who sympathizes when you keep going back. I know that sounds horrible but having seen it with a couple of women in my family, my own mother risking our lives when her sister’s husband came to our house to “collect his bitch” and my mom having to whip some ass to let him know he had the wrong sister…and then my aunt still going back…I just can’t. And my grandparents were not abusive and neither were his.
I remember being 23 and my father had become an alcoholic and he made a commemt about my dead mother and I emasculated him. I mean I have a wicked tongue and I knew I was playing with fire, but no one comes at my mother’s neck dead or no. Anyway, having never been so much as tapped by my father as a child or any other time, he wrapped his hands around my neck and started choking me. Dude body built as a hobby so I felt my eyes popping. I had to reach for a screwdriver nearby and push it through his back. I was pregnant. I sent his ass to jail and got a restraining order when he got out. My husband almost killed him. I saw him ramdomly for the first time last year and found out he got married and had a baby that he wanted me to meet. No. He taught me to never let any man put their hands on me and to kill them if he did. The day he touched me was the day he became dead to me. Time did not heal a damn wound.
I Googled Burning Tree and got a rehab facility so I didn’t think that was what you meant. LOL.
I’m sorry you went through all that pain. I completely understand where you are coming from. I have seen people keep going back for more and it really is frustrating. So I totally understand your feelings on that. I, myself, would not tolerate any physical abuse in my relationship either. I don’t even know what those women are going through and why they stay. I think they are many reasons people stay and we probably can’t comprehend them because we ourselves wouldn’t put up with that treatment. It’s just a sad situation.
@TheOriginalVictoria
“my theory is that OJs son did it”
ITA! Why has no one ever brought this up? I know there is one man who has pursued this, but he says he just gets the run around. OJs’ son was trained in hand to hand combat, and everyone wonders how could OJ have fought off a much younger man trained in Jujitsu. Also, I agree about the Brown family thing it’s not like they didn’t have ample warning that OJ beat Nicole, even the police knew as they were called to the house several times. You would think they’d like to find out who truly killed Nicole and Ron. IDK why they refuse to deal with this man who has so much evidence. Sorry off-topic.
I totally agree that the short black hair made her look sophisticated. Even when she wore trashy outfits with the hairstyle she looked HIGH FASHION. This hair is just the epitome of nothing. Hook ups with chris b? That’s her crooked cross to bear
There are two reasons I find this hard to believe. One is I don’t think her handlers would allow this. It seems the only thing they don’t have control over is her Twitter. Second, paps would be ALL over this. There would definitely be pictures or at the very least more substational information like dates or places. I’ve always said that she would have gone back to him if it weren’t for public pressure, but I don’t think she would be able to get away with it.
She pays her handlers salaries. You be amazed what people on celebs payrolls will keep under wraps PLUS you know they all signed iron clad no reveal contracts.
If they are meeting up in hotel rooms or on the sly the paps couldnt photograph them or the paps very well may be paid off by her.
I’ve worked for hotels, word travels. I just find it hard to believe that there’s no concrete info if this were true. Especially since people are still so interested in those two!
I dont think she ever wanted to break up with him but had to to save her image after he beat her. If she had stayed with him she would have lost many fans/income. She will lose fans/income even now if they really are dating or hooking up & go public.
Rihanna just signed a death warrant on her career if these hook-ups stories are true. And she re-signed the one on her life.
I love RiRi but I have to admit that she would go back to Fist Brown in a heart beat if it wasn’t for public opinion. SMH.
If true, this would be really saddening. It would also send a very wrong message to a large number of young girls who are victims of abuse. And to the remaining male population of Brown’s fans.
beautiful voice, but total loser who seems to have no sense of herself. She will probably be dead in five years or less.
Nobody deserves the kind of violence Rihanna suffered at the hands of CB. But if she goes back to him she sure as hell can’t say that she didn’t know what to expect. Sad…
She is a horrendous insult to all domestic violence/abuse victims !!
Can’t stand her !
If true, part of me feels bad for her that she clearly has issues, has no real support, and was never taught the tools to know better and do what’s best for herself.
The other part of me thinks she’s a dumb, spoiled brat who can’t think past her own immediate wants.
I don’t get it. But if she chooses to keep him in her life, she’s going to pay for that mistake sooner or later.
Goes to show that all the beauty and talent in the world count for nothing if you’re stupid in the head.
*If* this is true (still in denial here, just makes no sense) all I can do is shake my head. History will repeat itself, but maybe next time the physical scars won’t heal.
I guess Rihanna just didn’t get enough from Chris… she is really asking for a big whipping this time around. Ask and you shall receive…
My problem with Rihanna is that ever since the domestic abuse became public, she has continued to cultivate this “victim” image via her songs and music videos. One need not look further than We Fell In Love (the video) to see this; or “Love the Way You Lie” or “Russian Roulette.” I think this could actually influence young girls to think that distopian relationships are special or interesting, or that they reflect some special brand of passion (when really they are just sick). I understand that Rihanna is an artist and that her music will ultimately reflect her feelings and emotions, but I would put this up there with “Heroin Chic.” While she may not have the strength to walk away from an abusive relationship, she should at least have enough awareness not to promote such a pattern in the name of artistry, or worse: profit. It’s just wrong to valorize abuse and I cannot respect her for that, much as I hope she gets the help she needs.
I think it’s true. Rihanna said in an interview that she grew up in a very violent household, one time her father even broke her mothers nose, and her mother refused to go to the hospital because she was too embarrassed. She said that where she is from you don’t talk about abuse, you just keep going and pretend it didn’t happen. There is a very strong (bad) reason she and Chris are so drawn to each other, as his home life was similar growing up. Rihanna stated that she used to be afraid to go to sleep because she feared for her mother. Eerily similar Chris Brown said the exact same thing in an interview with Larry King where his mother was present and she started crying, he said he used to be afraid to go to sleep. These two need to stay away from each other, but I doubt they do. Sad.
Ah very interesting, I didn’t know anything about Rihanna’s past. Of course it all makes perfect sense…. why she didn’t end it immediately, why she wavered on the incident so much, and why she’s most likely back with him now. They deeply empathize with one another having shared many of the same childhood terrors, yet they are also compelled to reenact those same terrors – and then confuse it all for “love”. Ike and Tina part deux…
I believe it.
I hope she won’t end up like Whitney Houston.
An abusive relationship that is not put to an end can lead to a life of drugs, ruins of a career and a terrible cycle…
she’s totally gonna end up like Whitney, minus the reality show!
hahahaaha crackhead love til the end!
She is and always has been an untalented dumb ass.
Goes to show you beauty sure doesn’t mean brains!!
I guess he’s learned to leave the face alone (unless she’s got a shiner under her glasses).
Girl has a lot of bruises on her legs – front and back.
Way to send the wrong message to all the little girls out there who look up to you Rihanna.
If Tina Turner and Whitney Houston could produce a love child it would be Rihanna, in looks, careers and lifestyle.
I hate to say it, but I do feel differently about her if this is true.
the sad part is that i believe it. RiRi just doesn’t give a damn and doesn’t see what the big deal is bec she’s over it so we she be too. so lost.
It’s the ‘bad boi’ syndrome… ahhhhh I know it well… Unfortunately only time pain and experience will smooth this issue out… give her another 8 or 9 years…she’ll look back and say…”yeah that was some crazy good dick! but i’m glad that asshole aint in my life anymore!” Giddy up!
LMAO!!