It doesn't matter how many times he's apologized to her... it still doesn't change the situation... he could apologize 10,000 more times, it still wouldn't change anything... what he did was not right...

YOU GUYS ARE CRAZY ESPECIALLY THE ONES THAT ARE SAYING OH CHRIS MADE A MISTAKE HE APOLOGIED AND HE'S REALLY SORRY ..HOW DO YOU KNOW HE'S REALLY SORRY AND IN CASE YOU HAVENT NOTICED MOST OF THE WOMEN ABUSER SAY SORRY, I DIDNT MEAN IT, I LOVE YOU....AND GUESS WHAT WHEN THEY ARE MADD ONCE AGAIN THEY PLACE A KNOT UPSIDE YOUR HEAD..HOW MANY TIMES SHOULD SHE CONTINE TO ACCEPT HIS APOLOGY..REALLY?AT THE END OF THE DAY IF HE FELT LIKE THE SITUATION WAS GETTING A LITTLE HEATED AND HE WAS GONNA LOSE HIS COOL HE SHOULD HAVE STEPPED AWAY FROM THE SITUATION INSTEAD OF BEATING HER.FOR THE PEOPLE SAYING SHE WAS HITTING ON HIM ...LISTEN SHE WASN'T HITTING HIM LIKE HE WAS PUNCHING HER.FOR RIHIANNA IF THE ABUSE WAS GOING ON FOR THAT LONG SHE SHOULD OF LEFT HIM ALONE ALSO...
EVERYONE THATS SAYING CHRIS IS GOOD AND HE APOLOGIED, HE DIDN'T REALLY MEAN IT I WONDER HOW YOU GUYS WOULD FEEL IF THAT WAS YOUR MOTHER IN THAT SITUATION WOULD SHE DESERVE IT ALSO BECAUSE SHE WAS SNOOPING THRU HIS STUFF.

I LIKE THEM BOTH AS ARTIST BUT I'M NOT GONNA JUSTIFY FOR HIS WRONG DOINGS

Needs a second chance? Are u kidding me from what I just heard he got several chances from her and still continued to beat her. Don't get me wrong I believe in everybody makes mistakes but you wouldn't say the same thing about a murderer would you??? Some things can not be forgiven, beating a woman until she can't open her eye is one of those things, he could have killed her!! It astonishes me how people rag on miley cyrus for wearing short shorts and dancing on a pole, because children look up to her.. Chris brown beats a woman and everyone is hollering everyone makes mistakes?? Boys look up to him too!! oh and fyi she didn't bash him she just told it like it was, not once did I hear her talk about how he was a bad person, just about how she made a mistake.

too much unknown about the situation. i don't pay much attention to pop star trivia unless it is a subject that catches my eye, like physical abuse reports, how did they see it...did she reveal it covertly or did a woman pull her aside and say "if you don't do something i will?" all of it is wishy washy, like "rihanna neither confirmed or denied it happened like such and such." And this new talk she is giving, did they tell her to do it to keep it happening to girls, is it all damage control and she really can't stand talking about it anymore or is she doing it on purpose or some combination of both? It could be anyone, I don't care personally about the name or who, but the situation. I know women say "it is confusing time, confusing emotions...so on and so forth" but I don't really know what that means, and I think that young kids might get confused about whether or not to talk about things and will often throw things out casually without knowing the meaning but older teens and adults know that talking about it will make people try to DO something about the situation. To much is unclear to judge, all you see is "she got hit."

If you were beaten like that and then your brother said, hey you asked for it because you read his text message, and the your entire neighborhood said that same thing, how would you feel? Your face is still swollen, your lip is still busted, and your image is all over Facebook and Myspace, and while your face is still swollen and your ribs are sore and the teeth marks still are visible and everyone felt that you got what you ASKED for... would you think they were right? You were driving around with your boyfriend while he looked for a location where he could beat you until you had a mouth full of blood. A residential neighborhood that neither of you were familiar with so he could find a place to pull over and beat you down. Then he left you there - scared, hurt and totally abandoned where anyone could have walked up on you and done whatever to you. And then everyone told you that you deserved that for reading a text on a cell phone? Well, if it were me and I was reading my boyfriends text messages, I would prefer that he told me that he could no longer date me because I don't know how to mind my business. And with that, we just part ways. Not beat me for something so stupid and then expect me to say, "It's okay. I ASKED for it. I should be apologizing to you." Chris Brown, God forgive him, just got really upset because he got busted for cheating. He didn't respond in a healthy way. He WAAAAAY overreacted. That much anger and violence can't be ignored. And it was a lesson that Rihanna shared. She called it embarrassing. I could imagine that it would be embarrassing that everyone who looked at me and my boyfriend as this loving couple now knows that things were violent and the man who said he loves me could actually beat me like that. With every kick, bite and punch, he acted like she was some guy on the street that tried to rob him. It would bother me to look at anyone I love and see them with those wounds. How could I be the one to inflict them?

I agree! Telling all women to run is not enough, then we'll just have a bunch of women running from men...we should focus on fixing what causes the problem, and preventing it, not just the safest reaction to it. We need to talk to men, get their perspectives, and I know it sounds bazaar to some of you but try to understand the men who do this, not just with a corny, general, unrealistic list of signs. And I say understand, not to accept it, but to try to prevent it from another direction, something more than telling your 5 yr old "boys can't hit girls"

exactly!!

I totally agree Mike. I see how agressive these girls are and Rihanna is just another one. You treat people the way you want to be treated. She put her hands on Chris, she had to know that eventually, he was going to fight back.... Should men abuse women, absolutely not! But, she should be held accountable just as he was / is being.