Rihanna poses topless in the January issue of GQ magazine. It’s a gorgeous cover plus, a few things in the issue that you probably didn’t know about Rhi, check it:
Rihanna discussed her close relationship with her mentor Jay Z:
Me and Jay-Z, we have a very close relationship, so he was there helping me through it and giving me advice and guidance, and just words of support. Like, strength.
And her response to the altercation with Chris Brown:
Initially. I would say the first…the first seventy-two hours after I realized, it hit. The entire thing was kind of a daze. I was confused. It was a little weird, but…but then, after, I was getting bored of being in the house and sittin’ around. I called Jay Brown—he’s my A&R—and I was like, “I want to get back to the studio. I want to get back.”
If Rihanna could talk to other young victims of domestic abuse, here’s what she’d probably say:
Um…really really really that love is blind… After everything happened, it was a wake-up call to me… I didn’t realize how much of an effect it had on young girls’ lives, and that’s part of the insight that I wanna give. Stop blaming yourself for that outcome. There’s nothing you can do, ever, to excuse a man’s behavior like that.
On if she will ever speak to the convicted woman beater again:
Mmm. Maybe in like ten years, you know? But it’s not something that I’m depending on. I’m not depending on his friendship
Her response to having herpes:
… it’s not true. It’s a fucking scar. On my lip. That’s there every day of my life… At first I was like, Are you serious? First I thought people were gonna definitely know that that’s not…But when I read it, and I see that people just buy into that…Like, the minute they see it, it forms something in their head.
Rihanna also tells GQ: “It’s relieving,” of talking to the press about her violent encounter with Brown early this year, “because it was built up for so long, and all these thoughts and emotions have been running through my mind for the past eight months. And now it’s like I finally get to let go and move on.”
“I wanted people to move on with me,” she continues, “’cause the last big thing they know about me is That Night. And I don’t want that to be what people define me as.”
Editor:Dani
