Jay-Z who is like a big brother and mentor to Rihanna is said to be very upset with her, after rumours of an affair with her ex-boyfriend who battered her after 2009 Grammys broke. A friend of the couple claims Jay-Z got “Beyonce to tell Rihanna he doesn’t want her around the baby if she takes Chris back. He wants Blue to have positive role models, not someone who’d take back a man who hit her”. Rihanna 24, and Chris Brown 22, had been a couple up until 2009 Grammys. The couple got into a row at Clive Davis’s pre-Grammy party which heated up as they pulled over in the L.A Hancock Park area. During the argument that ensued, Rihanna threw the keys to Brown’s rented Lamborghini out of the window. He went in search of it and on returning, beat her within an inch of her life. When she came round, Brown had fled the scene and Rihanna in need of hospitalisation. The “Umbrella” singer became the poster lady for domestic abuse and spoke out about hidden abuse stating she wanted to be seen as an example of recovery. In 2009, she told Glamour magazine in US: ‘Domestic violence is a big secret. ‘No kid goes around and lets people know their parents fight. Teenage girls can’t tell their parents that their boyfriend beat them up. ‘You don’t dare let your neighbour know that you fight. It’s one of the things we [women] will hide, because it’s embarrassing. Adding: ‘My story was broadcast all over the world for people to see, and they have followed every step of my recovery. ‘The positive thing that has come out of my situation is that people can learn from that. ‘I want to give as much insight as I can to young women, because I feel like ‘I represent a voice that really isn’t heard. Now I can help speak for those women.’ But she went back to Chris to the amazement of those who applauded her when she initially left but she finally took herself out of the relationship as she would not want those looking up to her to think it is okay to be hit and it is alright to be with an abuser. In an interview with Diane Sawyer she explained how victim go through self denial and back to their abuser “ the minute the physical wounds go away, you put it in the back of your head wondering what could I possibly have said to make him do this”. When asked if she will ever take him back she said “I can’t answer that question right now because you never know what the future holds. He was my best friend and we were in love. We spent two years of our lives in a relationship. Love doesn’t just go right away” Right now Chris Brown and Rihanna are back into each other’s lives with speculation of an affair which her supporters especially Jay-z is against. RiRi claims her relationship with Brown is purely professional, to advance her career. Defending their collaboration, Rihanna called KIIS FM and explain her decision to record two duets with her ex-abuser. ‘I reached out to him about doing Birthday Cake because that’s the only person that really…… it made sense to do the record, Just as a musician, despite everything else, that was going to be the person,’. She explained : ‘I thought about rappers, and I’ve done that so many times, and the hottest R&B artist out right now is Chris Brown. So I wanted him on the track.’ In return, she provided vocals on a remix of Brown’s new dance song “Turn up the Music”. ‘It was a trade off,’ she added. ‘We did two records, one for my fans and one for his fans, and that way our fans can come together. There shouldn’t be a divide, you know, it’s music and it’s innocent.’ Though RiRi is claiming professional collaboration, her tweet is hinting on reconciliation. She tweeted ‘When they see me with you, wonder what the crowd would say? When they find us together, what will all the people say?’ and Brown singing ‘girl I wanna f*** you right now. Been a long time, I’ve been missing your body’, concurs Rihanna’s tweet. Little wonder big brother Jay-z is not buying the “it’s innocent” claim but rather issued an ultimatum, showing her tough love.
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