NEWSRihanna Cries About Chris Brown With Oprah Winfrey: "He Needs Help"
Aug. 16 2012, Published 1:16 p.m. ET
Oprah Winfrey's sit-down talk with Rihanna airs this Sunday for Oprah's Next Chapter on the OWN network, and today we've been teased with a fresh snippet from the chat.
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Sitting on the couch next to Oprah, tears fill the singer's eyes as she recalls that night in February of 2009 when then-boyfriend, Chris Brown, left her bloody, bruised and in the hospital after a particularly nasty fight.
"I lost my best friend," she said. "Everything I knew switched in a night and I couldn't control that."
She continues, saying it was a difficult thing to "interpret on camera with the whole world watching" and even went so far as to say she felt "protective" of her abuser.
"It was a weird, confusing space to be in," she told Oprah. "Because as angry as I was, as angry and hurt and betrayed, I just felt like he made that mistake because he needed help and who's going to help him? Nobody's going to say he needs help. Everybody's going to say he's a monster without looking at the source, and I was more concerned about him."
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Oprah traveled to Rihanna's hometown in Barbados to get a glimpse of the real girl behind the audacious, chart-topping performer the world watches.
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"I was expecting a badass, a hard-edged rocker woman," Oprah said. "Nothing could be farther from the truth. She was thoughtful, she was very emotional, she was vulnerable... I came away really getting a great sense as to who she was."
The interview airs this Sunday at 9 pm EST on the OWN network.
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