In 2009, Chris Brown got into a serious physical altercation with then-girlfriend Rihanna the night before the Grammy Awards, leading to Rihanna filing a police report and a series of graphic photos of the singer being released.
Rihanna spoke about the assault during a 2012 interview with Oprah Winfrey, and Brown has now opened up about the night in his documentary, Chris Brown: Welcome to My Life.
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In a clip from the film, Brown details his relationship with Rihanna, revealing that their problems began when he revealed to her that he had previously had sexual relations with someone that had worked for him.
“She hated me. After that, I tried everything. She didn’t care, she just didn’t trust me after that. From there, it just went downhill because it would be fights, it would be verbal fights, physical fights as well,” the 28-year-old said.
“I still love Rihanna, but I’m just going to be honest—we would fight each other, she would hit me, I would hit her, but it never was OK,” he continued. “It was always a point to where we talk about it like, ‘What the f–k are we doing?’”
The night of Clive Davis’ annual pre-Grammys party in 2009, Brown shared that the woman he had previously had relations with stopped at his and Rihanna’s table to say hello.
“I look over at Rihanna and she’s bawling, she’s crying,” he said, adding that things turned violent when the pair were in Brown’s car on the way home.
“I remember she tried to kick me, just like her beating s–t, but then I really hit her,” he said. “With a closed fist, like I punched her and it busted her lip. And when I saw it I was in shock, I was like, f–k why did I hit her like that?”
“From there she’s spitting blood in my face, it raised me even more. It’s a real fight in the car and we were driving in the street…She tried to grab for my phone, and I’m not giving her my phone, to throw it out the window,” he continued.
“S–t, I’m not ever trying to put my hands on any female,” Brown said. “I felt like a f–king monster.”
Brown and Rihanna briefly reunited in 2013, even appearing at the Grammys together, before splitting for good.
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