Nov 6, 2009, 20:38 GMT
Los Angeles - Pop star Rihanna on Friday publicly revealed details of her February assault by ex-boyfriend Chris Brown, the same day as Brown appeared on MTV to extend his apologies for the notorious incident.
Rihanna said of the song: "It's called 'Photographs'. It's about a break-up, and the only thing you have to show for the relationship is some pictures... making this album was my recovery. It's the way I vented and expressed myself." EPA/FRANTZESCO KANGARIS
In the interview with Good Morning America, Rihanna, 21, said the argument started after the couple had enjoyed themselves at a party prior to the next day's Grammy Awards, when she asked him about a text message he had received from another woman.
'I caught him in a lie, and he wouldn't tell the truth,' she said. 'I couldn't take that he kept lying to me. And he couldn't take that I wouldn't drop it. And ... it was ugly,' Rihanna said in the interview.
Brown became a sinister person she no longer recognized, she said. 'It wasn't the same person that says 'I love you'. It was not those ... eyes,' she said. 'He had ... no soul in his eyes. Just blank ... He was clearly blacked out. There was no person when I looked at him,' she said.
Rihanna acknowledged police reports that Brown punched her several times in the face, bit her, put her in a head lock until she had trouble breathing, and threw her phone out the window when she tried to call for help.
'I fended him off with my feet ... but it was not like, it was not like a fight with each other. I just ... I really just wanted it to stop,' she said.
Rihanna confirmed that she had briefly reunited with Brown after the attack but that now she had 'absolutely no desire' to be with him. Yet despite the beating, she said she still cares about Brown.
'I don't hate him at all,' she said. 'I actually love and care about him and I'm concerned about him doing well. I want him to do well, have a great career, have a great life, and grow up. Just take this as something that you had to go through to grow up and learn.'
In a separate interview on MTV, Brown, 20, said he was committed to doing just that. 'It's like, how do we get past it? How do you learn from your mistakes, turn it into a positive and help other people with the situation, and at the end of the day, become the person that you want to be?'
He also detailed the reason for his public apologies.
'I've exchanged my apologies for her, but when I do it publicly, it's for the people who I let down,' he said. 'To show people that I am wrong for what I've done, but that I want people to learn from it and see that I'm really apologetic.'
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