Chris Brown and Karrueche Tran decided to have an Instagram war yesterday. It was like an old-fashion Lindsay Lohan crack-tweeting extravaganza, only it feels like Chris Brown would likely do major physical harm to Karrueche if she ever went back to him. The above Instagram actually came at the end of the exchange. Let’s start at the beginning.
Two Thursdays ago, Chris Brown stalked and harassed Karrueche while she was out with friends. It went on for hours, and at one point, Chris went to her home, pounded on her door and screamed his lungs out outside. The police were called but he didn’t end up arrested, somehow. It was clear that Chris wanted Karrueche back, but she’s still not having it because he fathered a little girl, Royalty, with another woman while they were together. By all accounts, Tran is totally over it. Chris believes – and he says as much – that Karrueche just needs time and she’ll eventually come back to him.
So, Karrueche did a radio interview a few days ago and she answered a few questions about her now non-existent relationship with Chris. Chris Instagrammed to Tran: “Honestly, it’s so f—king pointless to keep doing interviews about me. Talk about your career. Da f–k u keep doing interviews for. Yes, I have a daughter. And I’m going to man the f–k up and take care of her. If there is no relationship the u shouldn’t be doing f–king interviews with people… sh-t starting to get real weak now.” So Karrueche responded on Instagram:
“First off, you just did an interview w Ryan Seacrest in which you spoke about me. My interview w Access Hollywood was not entirely about you…They asked a question and as a mature adult I answered. I’m not gonna shy away from something that I lived through. I’m talking about my life and experiences. I’m not speaking on you or bashing you (like I easily could). Don’t be mad at me because our relationship is over due to your lack of loyalty. You know what’s weak?? You forcing yourself into my car..my broken window..blowing up my phone..trying to shower me w/ gifts. Man the f–k up and change the bs in your life like I’ve told you several times. Best of luck to you and beautiful Royalty.”
So Chris responded, again via IG: “I’m eternally thankful for you being in a part of my life. I’ve learned so much from you. I wish u nothing but happiness and the best… All I was doing was trying to fight for the woman I love.”
Do you think Karrueche is handling this correctly? I want to applaud her because she’s saying the right things, she made a clean break, she’s holding him at arm’s length and she’s calling him out on all of his BS. All of that is good. But I do worry that at the end of the day, she will go back to him. Oh, and Chris broke her window? Damn. That IS weak. And it’s even more surprising that the LAPD didn’t arrest him outside of her house.
Photos courtesy of Instagram, WENN.
Minus the whole airing out your grievances in a public place, I totally applaud Karrueche. She owned Chris with her response and I hope she stays strong enough to stay away from him.
The most surpriaing thing in all of this is the fact that he actually seems to take care of his kid. I didn’t think he’d do it.
But he needs help. Pronto.
They are still playing with each other. A grown woman would have ignored and not responded to what he said.
Or maybe Karreuche is just standing up for herself… She’s kept quiet for so long. I’m glad she responded. And judging by his response, he knew everything she said was correct.
Chris Brown is a big baby. By responding to his taunts and comments she’s giving him the attention he’s craving from her. She should have ignored him.
Babies don’t show up screaming and banging on your door at 3am, he’s going to act like this with or without her doing a thing.
See that’s what I’m thinking. They both have issues, his are just more on the surface and hers are more inside her mind. Still, people like that should never be together. Chris likes em’ crazy and dramatic because they fule his issues with their own. Honestly, I’d love to never hear about chris brown again, but I’d settle for him just not dating.
Rihanna, karrueche both have drama problems. I would not want to be friends or even casual passerby with them. Nightmare.
He’s the only one playing games. He’s trying to wear her down and provoke her, and she’s responding as most grown people would. I do agree that she would do best by not responding to him (see my comment below), but it’s not her fault that he’s abusive and manipulative.
Yeah he’s still playing games, as someone who has been in an abusive relationship, his thankful, blah blah post is him ‘cutting her off’ so to speak. He knows she owned him so now he’s the ‘bigger guy’, doesn’t even care enough to be angry anymore, wishing her well. It’s all part of the mind games and abuse he’s been playing the whole time they were together and she would know it. It probably hurt her to read it too. It may not seem like it to someone who’s never experienced it, but he’s just pulling on her strings with that post too.
I have a feeling that Chris is the kind of guy who if you stay silent while he rambles on, then he thinks you agree with him. I think he’s the type where you have to yell your side of the argument at him REPEATEDLY, because once something is in his head and he wants it, he’s not going to let go easily. He’s like a pit bull. Clamped on and won’t let go.
I think she’s already had private talks with him at the time of the break up. But obviously he won’t accept that. Now what’s left is for her to talk about it publicly in the hopes that it would put pressure on him to finally get it.
Yup, when she was staying silent and ignoring him he threatened to cripple a guy she posed for a picture with. Not some no-name either, he publicly threatened to cripple a famous model for just posing in a photo with her. So yeah…lots of shouting with megaphones and billboards.
I think if she was going to take him back, it would have happened already, as it always has. Good for her. He’s a pig (and also seriously psychotic).
I still worry about her safety. I’ve never been in an abusive relationship but it seems to me like a clean break is the safest way to get out of something like this. I kind of wish she would jut not engage with him on any level, not even via social media.
On a superficial note, she is really gorgeous.
The guy is so scary,he really is crazy and can snap at any moment, I read somewhere she is getting a restraining order.
Oh I’m very relieved to hear that.
This is exactly what I think; go deaf, dumb, and mute against an abuser or it just keeps feeding into his ego and his violent tendencies. If he realizes he can no longer get a rise or even a reaction out of her, perhaps he’ll start to turn his energies and attention elsewhere. She just keeps feeding the beast, IMO; some may say she’s defending herself, but really, if she lets this all die and refuses to keep engaging him (or answering questions about him – she could’ve easily just responded “No comment.”) then it’s all giving him more fodder to come back with. Now he’s playing bright sunshiny guy who’s “thankful” for what she’s taught him, but tomorrow it’ll probably be right back to “you b*tch” and possibly something even more violent. She needs to totally cut him off, cut off everything about him in her life, but the real dilemma, in terms of her “career”, is she can’t afford to because this really is the only reason anyone knows her name (and hires her? Not sure what she does).
I guess you’ve been lucky and have never had a relationship with an abusive prick. I have and I can honestly say I do not judge Karreuche for how she is handling this. She could stay silent and he’d still rage on…Let’s put the blame for this where it squarely belongs…Chris Brown.
Um, ok. To be clear, I didn’t blame her for Chris’ rage. However, she *can* take responsibility for giving in to an interviewer’s questions when she could’ve shut that down. However she and Chris want to behave behind closed doors or even out in public where a pap may be present is another story, but she does have at least some means to shut things down on her side. Not to mention, she does have a pattern of going back to him after widely publicized and hugely dramatic “splits”. And for this latest incident where he showed up at her house ranting, then she still agreed to meet up with him at a diner in the middle of the night…did that need to happen? A lot of this simply could have been avoided and clearly she doesn’t (or didn’t) have any sort of protective order in place, or he would’ve been arrested when the police showed up to her house and found him there.
I completely understand why she’s doing what she’s doing, but IMO (and per The Gift of Fear) as someone who’s been in this type of situation, the best way to handle this is to not respond – ever. Brown is doing everything in his power to get her attention and when she responds, he’s getting attention. Also, if she’s not doing this already, she should keep a record of any message or interaction that he sends her or that she has with him.
Jesus Christ These Two have conducted this whole assy mess on IG for the World to see
I still say: She Better have Bodyguards but FWIW i think it’s still possible she would go back and she is Laying that groundwork for herself by up til now having nothing but glowingly positive things to say about him so as to always have that Out ” I never trashed him in public”
At the point where you leave the relationship and his usual strong arm tactics stat working less, and he thinks you’re not scared of him anymore they start manipulating you and start trying to be Mr Nice Guy again to lull you into a false sense of security only to start the cycle all over again. Don’t fall for it Karreuche.
very true. he’s been angry and frustrated and aggressive when she ignores him. the minute she showed him attention by posting a response on IG, he flipped the switch backed off and tried to be sweet. very manipulative, very manic bi polar
20 years from now, I feel like she will still be talking about Chris.
That’s possible how many years was Jennifer Aniston asked about Brad Pitt,eight or nine years?
I think on some level she has to keep this public and in the forefront, if this was a normal relationship that simply ended badly I could say “Keep it private” but she’s dealing with an abusive, manipulative, violent,millionaire ex-boyfriend.
An ex who threatens to publicly break another man’s legs for simply posing in a photo with her. An ex who battered a different woman’s face to the point you can still see her permanent scars in photos. She can’t keep it quiet and ignore him. She has to rebut him at every turn, she has to let the public know they can’t sympathy-force her into going back to him, she has to completely stand without him and be like a brick wall.
She also needs to go hard-core with protecting herself or one day it’ll stop being him hanging on her door at 3am and him forcing his way into her home instead.
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Hmmm..that’s a good point.
I agree. From what I’ve seen in the domestic violence area of work, he doesn’t really feel threatened right now even though she’s not technically with him. He sees her at events and he instagrams her, etc. not very often but enough to dillude himself that he’s still in her life. It’s when she starts seeing somebody else that he will go off on a nut and become really dangerous.
I understand her wanting to stick up for herself and talk sense to him when he’s bashing her on social media, but she still should not engage him no matter what. Just her responding, in his mind, means he won. He is still playing her and she needs to not allow herself to be played in any manner. Nobody is going to beleive anything he says about her. We all know that she isn’t to blame for any of his antics. As long as she engages him no matter how or why even if it’s to clear her name or set him straight or set the public straight through a response to him, I fear she is still interested and will eventually go back to him. If she cut it off entirely and never spoke or communicated with him again, I would feel more confident that she is truly done with this jackwad.
After everything that played out last week I don’t blame her for making this public. Maybe it’s better this way? Chris is a dangerous man and maybe this is her way of somehow also protecting herself if he comes at her again. She didn’t just make her intentions clear and where she stood to him but everyone. I watched a friend go though hell with an abusive terrorizing ex and many times she purposely did and said things in public and to others so she had proof to bring to the courts everytime he crossed the line. Which she did end up needing. I don’t know karreuches reasoning and maybe it’s for attention but Im going to give her the benefit of the doubt. It’s better to be safe than sorry.
If I remember correctly Chris was no longer outside her house when the police arrived.She probably decided not to press charges regarding the broken window.She didn’t call the police,her neighbors called the police according to TMZ.
According to another report, she went to an undisclosed location after the incident, so maybe she wasn’t even home.
so she draws the line at Chris cheating and fathering a baby during their relationship, but not at his beating the crap out of Rihanna, lying about his community service, having temper tantrums galore, throwing chairs at windows, rocks at cars, in and out of rehab.
um, ok? really?
they both need to sit the frack down.
Breaking a window! Get a restraining order and go no contact.
She could easily block him from her phone and get a restraining order, too. Hello?
Besides dating Chris Brown, is she notable for any reason?
no which highlights a bigger problem.
I hope she stays strong. I wouldn’t be surprised if she went back but for her safety she should stay far away and stop engaging with him in person or on Instagram.
I hope she has a good home security system and a gun or two. Because he’s dangerous.
Weak, corny, sloppy and juvenile.
ms tran stay free from him. don’t be a cautionary tale.
From what I’ve read, the reason the cops didn’t arrest him on the stop was because he left before the cops came. Though he may have learned not to stick around long enough to get arrested, he’s still behaving in a possibly criminal manner, imo.
Sort of a side comment, but I don’t understand this using Instagram for messages back and forth thing. I’m on IG but I use it for sharing photos, that’s it … it’s not for messages. I would understand this more if they were going back and forth on Twitter.
Also, did they both delete most of the comments? I looked at their IG links, trying to see the original posts, and couldn’t find them.
Karrueche, you in danger, gurrrrrrrrrl. Plan and simple, he isn’t worth it. So move on and leave him in the dust. He is dangerous, more than capable of being violent, and a proven woman beater. Get a protection order, stop engaging with him, and live in peace. Chris Brown..I’d tell you to get help, but you are beyond help.
he’s still got his claws in her if she is responding but I dont think she’s going back. having a baby with another woman?? and its out publically. there’s no way you can recover from that and she knows it.
Looks like those anger management classes didn’t stick. He’s going to end up wasting his life in prison if he doesn’t learn to control his rage. How did Rihanna manage to get away from him? She was pretty naive about the risks going back to him periodically.
Is he still on probation? If so, somebody should alert his probation officer.