We all remember the horrific injuries sustained by Rihanna in early 2009 when Chris Brown beat the living hell out of her. Fortunately, Rihanna broke off that relationship and hasn’t gone back — although she might have looked back once or twice because a pattern of abuse is very difficult to break even (or especially) on the victim’s end. I always assumed that, in the end, everyone but Chris was happy that Rihanna has chosen that route for herself; certainly, I never imagined that members of her family would be rooting for Rihanna to get back with the guy, but the latest issue of The Enquirer says that is precisely the case. Yeah, I know it sounds unbelievable, right?

Here’s the thing — it’s not like The Enquirer gathered this information from “an insider” close to the family or anything suspect like that. Instead, these are Rihanna’s actual cousins talking to the publication, and they speak of Chris in bizarrely glowing terms:

Rihanna’s closest family members have made an impassioned plea for her to get back together with abusive ex-boyfriend Chris Brown, The ENQUIRER can exclusively reveal.

But experts say reuniting with Brown – who pleaded guilty to a felony after savagely beating the “Umbrella” singer during a ferocious argument — would only reignite the cycle of violence in the couple’s relationship.

Despite that, two of Rihanna’s cousins claim the Grammy winner’s family still loves the shamed star and have forgiven him for viciously assaulting the 23-year-old beauty.

Chris made a mistake, but I forgive him,” Nicola Alleyne told The ENQUIRER. “I think he got hit too. Knowing Rihanna like I do, it was a fight. But I would love them to be back together. I really think Chris still loves her.”

Nicola, a 34-year-old mother of two, bonded with Brown when Rihanna brought him to her native Barbados to meet her family.

“She introduced Chris to everybody. He was really, really nice,” recalled Nicola, whose sister, Noella, travels the world with Rihanna when she’s on tour. Their mother, Rihanna’s Aunt Marcel, hosted the celebrity couple at her home.

“Chris’ mother, sister, nephew and cousin also came. My mother made dinner, and Chris sat on the floor and ate her Guyanese food — baked salt fish and rice.”

Rihanna’s cousin Amanda Thompson — who, like Nicola, works in the fish market and clothing shop that are both owned by Rihana’s extended family in the Barbados capital of Bridgetown — also wishes the couple would rekindle their romance. “I loved Chris Brown,” 38-year-old Amanda — who fondly remembers braiding a young Rihanna’s hair — told The ENQUIRER.

“I met him after Rihanna had just won her first Grammy. She had a party in the Boatyard Bar in Bridgetown, and I danced with him. I don’t know what happened, but I would love for them to get back together. Everybody makes mistakes.”

[From The Enquirer, print edition, September 19, 2011]

Honestly, I find the behavior of Rihanna’s cousins in this instance to be rather disgusting. Exactly what kind of a supportive family member would (publicly or otherwise) encourage their cousin to get back together with an abusive ex-boyfriend? All based upon the fact that he was “really nice” and sat on the floor while eating fish and rice. Of course Chris was cordial to Rihanna’s family because he probably wanted to make a good impression, but that doesn’t mean that he wasn’t a violent nightmare behind closed doors. And he undoubtedly was just that.

In this case, there is photographic evidence that Chris beat the living crap out of Rihanna, and yet her cousins are willing to overlook that as trivial in light of the fact that he was sweet and danced with them. They honestly seem to believe that Chris merely made a series of consecutive mistakes when his fist hit Rihanna over and over again. How would these cousins feel if Rihanna took their advice and ended up dead one day because of it? I don’t even want to think about that; and hopefully, Rihanna will ignore her cousins’ misguided words too. Not only is her own safety at stake, but she also must think about the image she sets forth to her fans that experience abusive relationships as well.

Photos courtesy of Fame

Yesterday, I did a post on Christina Aguilera – go here for the story. It was mostly about how Kim Kardashian wanted Christina to sing at her wedding… for free. Christina refused, of course. Anyway, at the end of the story, I included these strange photos of Christina and her 3-year-old son Max at the airport. I also included Fame Pictures’ note that Max seemed to have two black eyes, and that there were “rumors” that Christina might be a bad or abusive mother. Honestly, I thought Fame was just still stirring the pot – little boys get into things, they play rough, and sometimes they get bruised or worse. I thought it was unfair to automatically assume that Christina was, like, hitting her kid or whatever. I think she’s a boozehound monster, but I won’t even consider the idea that she’s hitting her child.

Well, Christina and her people were pissed off that so many people were muttering “abusive” when they saw the photos. So they sent “sources” out to tell TMZ and Us Weekly: “Any reports stating she isn’t a good mom are incorrect. The reports are actually disgusting. Christina is an amazing mom. Max is a happy playful and active boy who has a loving and safe home.” Sure. But here’s the kicker: Max got two black eyes from chasing after… squirrels?

Christina Aguilera is firing back at rumors she’s somehow responsible for a giant bruise on her son’s face — telling friends little Max simply had himself a little fall at the park … chasing squirrels.

The photo was taken yesterday afternoon at LAX — with rumors circulating that Christina’s “erratic behavior and alleged booze-filled outings” somehow contributed to Max’s accident.

But sources tells us, that’s total nonsense — 3-year-old Max was out with his nanny last week, chasing around squirrels … and the kid tripped over a rock and bruised his face.

According to our sources, Max was taken to the doctor immediately and everything was fine. No broken nose, no stitches. Just your average boyhood bruise.

As one source put it, “Christina is a great mom … Max is her #1 priority.”

[From TMZ]

Is that something 3-year-old boys do? Chase after squirrels? I thought it was just dogs. Both TMZ and Us Weekly got the “squirrel” excuse, so obviously, this is the official story: squirrels. Why not just say, “Max was playing in the park and he tripped”?? I don’t understand.

So you know how I just defended Christina’s honor as a NOT abusive mother? Here’s the kicker: Christina being such a boozehound is another form of abuse. If Christina is drinking as much and as often as I think she is, then it is affecting her as a parent, and in the years to come, it will be a form of emotional abuse for Max. I’m just sayin’.

Photos courtesy of Fame.

Real Housewives of Beverly Hills’ Taylor Armstrong is divorcing her socially inept ponzi-scheme running husband of six years, Russell. It was clear to viewers of the show that Taylor and Russell didn’t have much in common except for their mutual love of money and their love for their daughter. (Which Taylor shows by throwing $60k parties for her and giving her expensive jewelry.) Taylor has since been spotted out with a chef who bears a superficial resemblance to Russell in that he’s geeky looking, so I think it’s safe to assume that she’s moved on.

Last season we saw Taylor give a speech in front of a domestic violence charity in which she revealed that she came from an abusive household. She cried and said that the the fact that she lived in Beverly Hills and made a better life for herself should serve as an inspiration or something. It was incredibly superficial and self-centered, but that’s Taylor. She’s also somewhat of a hypocrite in that she once threatened to take Kim Richards “out back and go Oklahoma on [her] ass” after they had a verbal argument. As Kim pointed out to Taylor, that doesn’t jibe with her involvement in a charity helping domestic violence victims, but Taylor countered that she’d never been in a fight in her life.

The Daily Mail is reporting that Taylor has an interview in the latest issue of People Magazine accusing Russell of abuse. This all sounds very serious, but The Mail doesn’t always get details of other publications correct, nor is Taylor necessarily truth-worthy. I wouldn’t put it past her to exaggerate a shoving incident although Russell seems to admit to something:

In an interview with the new issue of America’s People magazine, she said: ‘I’m mad at myself for tolerating things I should not have tolerated from the first moment.’

She claims that as well as calling her names, Russell, 47, had grabbed and shoved her, pulled her hair and thrown objects at her.

While he denies pulling her hair, he told the magazine: ‘Did I push her? Yes, maybe things happened in the heat of the moment, but it was during a time in our lives that was not characteristic of who we were. This show has literally pushed us to the limit.’

Taylor, who was exposed to domestic violence as a child and has worked for women’s shelter for a number of years, eventually decided to end her marriage for the sake of their daughter, Kennedy, 5.

‘Allowing this to happen in my own relationship was something I felt very ashamed of,’ she says.

Despite trying to save their union with six months of couples therapy, Russell moved out of their rented family home in June.

[From The Daily Mail]

I’d need to read the interview to see what Taylor said, but I wouldn’t dismiss her claim just because she’s a manipulative twit. It’s telling that Russell is blaming the show for pushing him to the limit, as if it’s someone else’s fault that he went off. Isn’t that a common tactic of abusers, to blame someone or something else for their own awful behavior? No one deserves that, but I’ll reserve judgment I guess. Here’s a link to a background article on Taylor and Russell. He’s been sued multiple times for bad business deals and has been convicted of felony tax evasion.

This story comes as a request from several commenters. Did you just want an open forum to discuss this issue, or if you just wanted to hear my take on it, given that I am firmly entrenched in Team Adele, forever and always. The basic story: last week, the VMA (MTV Video Music Award) nominations came out, and while Lady Gaga got a significant number of noms for Born This Way (3 in total), she was out-nominated overall by both Katy Perry (the VMA nomination leader) and Adele (who got 7 nominations). So what did Gaga’s Little Monsters do in retaliation for their Queen Monster being “snubbed”? They went on a really inappropriate, gross, disgusting bender of nastiness.

According to AHN, “Gaga’s fans took to Twitter to attack the British singer and her weight because she didn’t sweep the Video Music Awards nominations like the previous year, when she earned 13.” Comments from the little monsters on Twitter included: “Adele probably ate Lady Gaga’s other nominations” and “CONFIRMED: Gaga will not be wearing the meat dress at the 2011 VMA’s because she is afraid Adele will eat her.” Also: “Adele: ‘I’m bootyful in my way, cause Arbys makes noooo mistakes, I’ve got the right order, baby I was borrrn this weeeigggghttt.’”

Two things are weird about the fan reaction: one, there were barely any high-profile attacks on Katy Perry, only Adele. Two, Gaga preached tolerance and her anti-bullying messages are pretty clear. Now, even though Gaga has been pissing me off for a while, I don’t think she should be held accountable for her most rabid and insane fans. That being said, it wouldn’t hurt for her to do some high-profile damage control, lest people associate her with her deranged fans. And I really hope Adele hasn’t heard about this. This is ridiculous.

By the way, Adele’s album 21 is STILL at number one on the UK charts, topping Katy and Gaga. She’s on her 18th consecutive week at number one, and her first album, 19, is climbing the charts again too. You know why? Because Adele matters in ways that Lady Gaga can only dream of. Because Adele has more raw talent in her pinkie than Gaga has in her entire body. Because TEAM ADELE, BITCHES.

Sidenote: You want to know how obsessed I am with 21? I have the thing downloaded into my iPod, plus I bought the CD, and I haven’t stopped listening to the album in my car in MONTHS.

Photos courtesy of WENN, Out Mag, InStyle.

First of all, I saw the poor eight year-old with this stupid whackjob of a mother trying to speak in an interview. She couldn’t move anything but her mouth so I believe that her mom did give her Botox for whatever reason. According to Radar, it probably wasn’t for beauty pageants though, because no one can find any record of the daughter competing in anything. What’s more is that her idiot mom has also been lying about her name, where she lives and trying to hide the fact that she has another daughter.

As we heard on Monday, the woman has had her daughter removed from her home by child welfare services. Radar has the detail that the little girl is being cared for by relatives, so that’s good news in this otherwise sad story about a grifter exploiting her daughter:

In a bizarre turn of events, Kerry Campbell may have lied about giving her 8-year-old daughter Botox in a desperate attempt to get publicity.

Campbell became an instant lightning rod when she went on national television recently and said she injected her young daughter to give her an edge in pageant competitions.

“It’s beginning to look like Kerry’s claims about giving her daughter Botox injections looks like a hoax, and that Kerry is making the entire thing up for publicity. Kerry is obsessed with reality television, and wants to become famous. Child Protective Services are conducting an investigation about the Botox claims, and at this point, there is absolutely no evidence that Kerry injected Britney with Botox,” our insider tells RadarOnline.com.

Britney was removed from Kerry’s house over the weekend, as RadarOnline.com previously reported. Kerry said she was injecting Britney with Botox to help with her pageant career. “Investigators and social workers have been unable to prove that Britney has ever been in any beauty pageants. Britney is now being cared for by relatives, and is doing well,” the source says.

If Kerry made up the entire story, “she will be in some serious trouble as far as custody goes of her daughter, Britney. If she didn’t actually inject Britney with Botox, that is going to open another element to the investigation. If the mom is so obsessed with becoming famous, and putting her daughter out there like that, her motives and intentions are going to be very closely examined,” the informant stated.

There is a possibility that Kerry doesn’t live in San Francisco, but in Southern California and goes by a different name, and could have another daughter.

“CPS is trying to just establish basic facts about the case, where does Kerry live, and it appears that she has several other aliases, and she could have another younger child, another daughter. It’s very difficult to get a straight answer from her,” the source tells us.

[From Radar]

Well I hope this is true and that the Botox pictures are somehow faked, but I’m thinking that it’s hard to fake the frozen look that little child had on her face. Hopefully the creepy detail about the “virgin waxes” this creature also allegedly gives her daughter is false too.

What I want to know is how this woman can call herself an aesthetician when she has a mustache like that. She can score Botox without a problem but she can’t manage to wax her hairlip. (Surgiwax for the win!)

Update: According to a sworn declaration, this woman claims she was was paid by British tabloid The Sun to make up this whole story about giving her daughter Botox and “virgin waxes,” and when she was approached by American media she continued to lie in order to get paid for her photos and interviews. She claims that a medical source has certified that her daughter, who has never competed in any beauty pageants, is Botox free.

Have you heard the story about the stage mom who told the press that she gives her eight year old daughter Botox and waxes her daughter’s legs and pubic area monthly? The girl doesn’t have any hair down there or wrinkles, but this insane mom thinks that she’s somehow giving her daughter a competitive edge in the tween beauty pageant arena. She thought it would be a good idea to 1. do that to her poor daughter and 2. go public with the fact that she’s an abusive witch.

To ABC, this mom said she waxed her daughters’ “upper leg area,” and tried to act like it was a onetime thing, but to The Sun she admitted she does “monthly virgin waxes,” saying, “She also has her virgin wax monthly, which gets rid of her fluffy leg hair and makes sure she wont develop pubic hair in the future.” Having heard this cretin of a woman speak (video above) I doubt she’s capable of sounding that articulate. The good news is that the mom is now under investigation by Child Services (a division of Human Services). I doubt they’ll take her kid away from her but maybe they’ll force her to take some parenting classes, not that anything could help a person this stubborn and stupid. (Update: The child has been removed from the home, see below.)

The California mom who admitted to injecting her 8-year-old daughter with botox for a kiddie beauty pageant is now being investigated by the San Francisco Human Services Agency.

“It’s pretty unusual for a mom to be injecting an 8-year-old with botox and certainly is grounds for an investigation,” said Trent Rohrer of the San Francisco Human Services Agency.

Mom Kerry and daughter Britney, appeared on “Good Morning America” Thursday defending the 8-year-old pageant contestant’s use of botox.

“I just, like, don’t, like, think wrinkles are nice on little girls,” Britney said.

Britney admitted it hurt to get the injections on her face, but said she was used to the pain.

The admission sparked an uproar online, in the medical community and by child advocates.

Kerry told ABC News that she does not believe she’s endangering Britney’s health and that her daughter asked for the injections. Kerry, who asked that her family’s last name not be used, is a part-time aesthetician and no stranger to Botox herself, having done the treatment on her own face.

“Like I said, I do the botox myself. It’s safe,” Kerry said.

“She had watched me do it before,” said Kerry. “So when we first did it, she was fine with it.”

Kerry wouldn’t reveal who provides her with the Botox. Kerry typically administers the Botox to Britney through a total of five shots, in three different locations on her face.

[ABC News via Hollybaby]

As Good Morning America mentions, doctors sometimes give kids Botox as a legitimate treatment for neurological disorders or crossed eyes, but of course this is outrageous and abusive. At least it sheds light onto a really despicable abusive practice that some of these stage moms may be inflicting on their daughters. Hopefully this is an isolated case though.

Update: The child was removed from the home over the weekend.

Look at this sweet little girl. Who could do this to their kid?

Before we get all LINNOCENT CODE RED about this Nicolas Cage situation, I should state that I don’t really understand Radar’s report. I mean, I understand why they’re making it into some kind of tabloid-y thing, but I don’t understand they’re explanation of what went down. Okay, let’s start at the beginning: so you know how Nicolas Cage was a drunken, belligerent idiot in New Orleans a few weeks ago, and how he was arrested for domestic abuse and disturbing the peace? Most people (including Nicolas’s wife Alice) say that the whole thing was just about Nic being too drunk to know where his rental was, and the “domestic abuse” was Nic grabbing Alice’s arm to lead the way to where he thought they were living. Well, anyway, the story gets worse. It turns out that Nic and Alice’s son Kal-El (for real, that’s the kid’s name) was around during the incident…? And Nic drunkenly dropped the five-year-old? Maybe. Radar has a convoluted story about what went down.

Not only did Nicolas Cage not know where he lived last weekend during his drunken stupor in New Orleans, but according to the Incident Report obtained by RadarOnline, the actor dropped his son while he was intoxicated.

“At some point, Mr. Cage fell while holding their son. The fall caused the five (5) year old child to suffer a minor abrasion to his left knee, and she [Alice] then recovered the child,” the report reads, after stating the couple had been at dinner with some friends earlier in the evening where Nicolas had been drinking. Alice then drove them to a friend’s house and Nicolas went in to pick up their son.

Nicolas was arrested on April 16, 2011 in the Big Easy for Simple Battery (Domestic) after police were called to the 600 block of Dumaine Street by an unknown taxi driver. And aside from his wife, Alice Cage, telling officers that Nic dropped their son, Kal-El, another witness said he saw a similar incident.

“As Mr. Cage was being transported, Sergeant Smith was approached by Officer Wild who was still on scene, he informed Sergeant Smith that an unknown white male passer-by, who was walking a dog, stated that he observed Mr. Cage pull the male child to the ground by his hand,” the incident report reads.

“Based upon this information, and Mrs. Cage’s earlier statement, a child abuse detective was notified.”

The child abuse detective determined that no further investigation was merited, but noted that a representative of Child Protective Service may be contacted and an investigation launched.

A photograph was taken of the child’s injury but Alice declined to let Sergeant Smith interview him, and she also declined to write a handwritten statement of the incident.

“He was yelling, ‘Get the police! Get me outta here! She’s trying to kill me!’” the report said of Nic’s state during the incident. “The male [Nicolas] appeared heavily intoxicated, displayed slurred/loud speech and was belligerent.”

Officers on the scene attempted to calm down Nicolas for nearly 30 minutes in order to advise him of his rights.

According to the report, officers finally made the decision to arrest him based on his manic state, his level of intoxication and the victim and witness statements.

“Alice Cage reported that she and her current live-in husband, Nicolas Cage, were involved in a verbal altercation…grabbed her by the upper right arm and pulled her to what he believed was the correct location. She suffered no visible injuries,” the report said.

“Alice Cage stated her husband was not attempting to injure her, but instead he was attempting to get her to follow him.”

Nic has since returned to the set of his new movie, Medallion, and attended his older son, Weston’s, wedding on Sunday.

[From Radar]

So… I’ve read this thing like five times and I still don’t get it. What does “he observed Mr. Cage pull the male child to the ground by his hand” mean? That Nic began to fall and as he was drunkenly trying to correct himself, he used his five year old as a makeshift banister to steady himself? Or does it mean that Nic was on the ground and he grabbed Kal-El and pulled him to the ground just to be a mean, abusive drunk? Eh… I really don’t have any idea. But if Nic was as drunk as everyone is claiming, my guess is that this whole “dropped the kid” thing was an accident…? I’m not trying to defend Nicolas, I’m really not, I just don’t think this constitutes “child abuse.” Maybe it does, though. My radar is off for this kind of thing, considering my mom accidentally kicked me down the stairs when I was a baby (true story).

Photos courtesy of WENN.

Chris Brown currently has the number one album on the Billboard Hot 200. He’s not doing as well on the iTunes charts, where his CD is at number 79, but I think it’s safe to assume that his career has recovered despite the fact that he choked, bit, punched and left Rihanna for dead about two years ago and still speaks about it as if he was the victim of some negative event that happened to him. Still, radio hostess Rosie O’Donnell thinks that Brown is “held to a different standard,” and that it has to do with his race. She also said Robin Roberts should question whether she’s responsible for Brown freaking out and throwing a chair through a window after she asked him about his abusive past during an interview on Good Morning America two weeks ago.

Rosie: I can name 25 stars who trash dressing rooms, who trash hotel rooms. I just don’t know why this kid seems to be held to a different standard than anyone else.

Producer: Is there a racist thing here?

Rosie: I totally think there is. I also think that’s why he felt he was safer with Robin Roberts.

Producer: Is it because he’s a rapper? [sic] I’m thinking of Kanye West… Black rappers are not allowed to be angry and then recover from it.

Rosie: I do think that there is a societal paradigm in which you have to be an angel or a thug if you’re a black male… Tupac Shakur there’s a whole series of books written on the fact that he struggled between his image of a poetic angel or a drug dealing thug.

I actually felt bad for Chris Brown during that interview, and I felt mildly angry at Robin Roberts. I wish I had her email… I feel like going ‘can you take a look at this again and see if maybe you find in any way your responsibility in this at all?’

The next day she’s like ‘We invited him to come back, but he said no.’

I would not blame him. Part of me wanted to take a chair and throw it through The View after all that happened.

[From Rosie's show, video below, via Popeater]

First of all, how stupid are Rosie and this producer woman for calling Chris Brown a rapper? He’s an R&B singer and he does pop music. I’ve never heard him rap up to this point, but I googled it and he does have a recent song with Lil Wayne and Busta Rhymes where he attempts to rap. Still, that’s not what he’s known for at all. That’s like calling Usher a rapper.

Second, I think it’s safe to assume that Rosie identifies with Chris because she has anger issues too. That’s all I can take away from this. I’m not saying she’s physically abusive, we’ve never heard that about her, but I would bet that she’s flown off the handle in her day.

It ridiculous to say that the pressure is coming down on Chris Brown because he’s black. First of all, the kids’ career isn’t suffering at all and he got to go on Dancing With The Stars, also on ABC, after he trashed their GMA studio. People are still questioning Chris because he keeps acting like a little bitch and refusing to take responsibility for his actions. If he never would have thrown that chair through the window we wouldn’t be talking about him, but the dude did it and he ripped off his shirt and ran around outside like Bruce Banner.

Also, how can Rosie ask Robin Roberts to take responsibility for Chris freaking out and throwing things like a bad toddler? Roberts very gently asked him about what happened with Rihanna, and her questions were approved ahead of time. Roberts wasn’t accusatory at all, (you can watch that interview here) and it was a very typical interview about a high profile incident but somehow Brown couldn’t hack it and he freaked out. How is that Roberts’ fault in any way whatsoever? This just goes to show Rosie’s line of thinking. If someone gets angry, it’s the other persons fault for “provoking” them, and when people think it’s inappropriate when someone freaks out and breaks things they’re somehow biased against that person. It definitely sounds like she identifies with Brown.

Header photo credit: PRPhotos

Yesterday we saw photos of Lindsay Lohan looking like she’s back on her drug(s) of choice. She looked haggard, like she’d lost at least 10 pounds in the last couple of weeks, and her pupils were pinpricks. It would be sad if it wasn’t so predictable and she wasn’t such an entitled piece of work who continues to commit crimes and think she can get away with it.

The latest in Lindsay Lohan news is that she’s squeaking by, of course, on a potential assault charge stemming from that time in December that she skipped out of court-ordered rehab, got drunk and then got abusive with a rehab employee when she tried to call authorities about it. The Betty Ford employee involved then blabbed to the gossip press, got fired, then was rumored to be in negotiations to get paid off by the Lohans not to press charges. Then the Lohans stiffed the woman of course, and she got another attorney.

Radar Online has the news that no charges will be fired. They also have insider information straight from Mommy crackhead about how Lindsay reacted. She was thrilled to learn that she would not face any consequences, yet again, for behaving very badly.

Dina Lohan broke the news to her daughter Lindsay that she would not be charged with any wrongdoing in connection with an altercation at the Betty Ford Center, the troubled actress told her mom: “Great, Awesome. Thanks Mommy. Goodnight!”, RadarOnline.com has exclusively learned.

Dina, upon herself learning that charges will not be filed against Lindsay, told RadarOnline.com Tuesday night: “I have known all along my daughter was innocent.”

As RadarOnline.com previously reported, officials with the Riverside County District Attorney told us they were not filing charges “due to insufficient evidence” to prosecute Lindsay, 24, in the alleged December 12, 2010 altercation with staffer Dawn Holland at the Betty Ford Center in Rancho Mirage, California.

Holland accused the Mean Girls star of throwing a phone at her, after she allegedly caught the actress drinking and violating curfew, spurring an investigation from the Palm Desert Police Department as to whether Lohan had violated her probation in the incident.

“I only found out that the D.A. wouldn’t be filing charges today after reading RadarOnline.com,” Dina, 48, told us. “Our lawyer hadn’t even had the chance to contact us yet with the news.”

Dina said her famous daughter was elated upon learning she’d have one less legal hurdle to overcome.

“Lindsay didn’t know until Tuesday night and when I texted her the good news, she was at a charity event and she texted me back, ‘Great, Awesome! Thanks Mommy. Goodnight!’”

“We are all just so relieved, we were all waiting for the truth to come out that Lindsay was innocent,” the Long Island native told RadarOnline.com exclusively.

“Lindsay has been working on her sobriety: she has been following the Betty Ford program and they have been supportive throughout this entire experience,” Dina said. “They stood behind her and had faith in her the whole time.”

“I have known all along my daughter was innocent,” Dina said. “I am just so happy this is over with.”

[From Radar Online]

When Dina talks, this is what she’s really saying. “Lindsay is innocent, she is sober, we are famous celebrities. Give us free cake and jewelry and don’t you dare tell us we can’t have it or we’ll hit you and call the cops on you. We’re the Lohans, only we’re not using that name anymore since our dad is even more of an embarrassment than we are. You know us, we deserve whatever we want, and we deserve it now. Lindsay is a famous hardworking movie star who everyone is jealous of and out to get, including the shopowners, police department, gossip press, random commenters on the Internet, judges and prosecutors. You’ll see, she’s innocent and she’s sober and she’s going to go back to work and get an Oscar. We’ll be vindicated and then all the stores in the world will be open to us, waiting for us to come and take what’s ours.”

Lindsay is shown yesterday. Dina is shown on 3/13/11 out with Lindsay in New York. Look at the difference in Lindsay in just a couple of weeks.

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Chris Brown still performed two songs on Dancing with The Stars last night (videos below) even after he smashed up a window at Good Morning America, acted like a petty bitch and made lame excuses when he got called out for it. It’s clear that ABC cares more about ratings than about sending a message that they don’t tolerate domestic violence. They gave Brown a invaluable platform to promote his album, and he ate it up like he was the second coming of Michael Jackson. It was all very obviously lip synced, like painfully so, but he put on an otherwise decent performance and the kid can dance. It’s a shame he’s a violent unrepentant felon and that he’s still being given a forum to perform.

Not everyone at Dancing with the Stars agreed with the decision to have Chris on. Both host Tom Bergeron and professional dancer Cheryl Burke expressed their misgivings about allowing a convicted abuser to perform on the show. E!’s Awful Truth reports this news, along with the inside information that ABC was trying to stage an interview between Brown and the woman he choked nearly unconscious, threatened to kill and left for dead. (Read the police report if you dispute this).

And now that ABC has basically swept the whole dressing room freak-out under the rug in order to protect Brown for his stint tonight on Dancing With the Stars, the network seems to be sending him the message that his dangerous ‘tude is A-OK.

Newsflash, it’s not. Cheryl Burke obviously thinks so.

“As a victim of domestic violence, I don’t agree with him coming on the show, but it’s out of my control,” the DWTS pro dished to Extra.

But ABC’s not going to say that—or agree with it. Puh-leeze, especially with a TV performance that is about to reel in some massive ratings at stake!

Brown is set to perform two songs tonight, but he might have to introduce himself for obvious reasons.

Dancing With the Stars host Tom Bergeron asked show producers to keep him as far away from Brown as possible during his guest number on the hit dancing competition.

Bergeron dished to Ryan Seacrest: “I did tell the producers it may be to their advantage to not have me interview him.”

Great idea since not only would it be really awkward, but you never know when that fuse will burst. We hope Tom disapproves of the show’s decision to honor C.B.’s invitation after that dressing-room tirade as much as Burke does!

It’s too bad the tight-knit ABC family isn’t registering Brown’s anger levels as dangerous red flags. He seemed about to Hulk out of his cut-off jean vest during that GMA interview, and now ABC’s willing to risk a potential freak-out repeat (we all know it’s only a matter of time until the next one) by having him on its airwaves again.

Also, even though the network denies it, we have been assured by reliable ABC sources that mission numero uno—as far as its Brown coverage goes—would be to facilitate a “sitdown” between Chris and Rihanna.

Reps for Brown and Rihanna still have not said if their clients would ever be interested in such a public spectacle, which, of course, is exactly what it would be, as ABC well knows.

The guy beat his girlfriend to a pulp for Christ’s sake! That’s not something ABC, or any member of Team Breezy, should be proud of endorsing or putting on air.

[From E! Online]

At least Bergeron and Burke spoke out against this guy. I get that he has the top R&B single but that doesn’t mean he gets a pass after throwing a chair through a window and ripping his shirt off for being asked some questions he preapproved about nearly killing his famous girlfriend. He shows a clear lack of remorse and in no way deserves this chance. That’s how it works, though, and ratings trump even a small amount of morals and common sense every time. They even want to sit Rihanna down with the guy who smashed her face into a car window and choked her repeatedly. If Chris was just some stranger who attacked Rihanna he would be in jail now and not on television enjoying a comeback.

Oh and here’s a life size Hulk figure that Chris has in his house. He tweeted about this in September, 2009. Seems fitting, right?

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