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Ladytex
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09-27-2001

Friday, February 27, 2009 - 9:59 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Ladytex a private message Print Post    
Rihanna and Chris Brown are back together

Rihanna and Chris Brown are back together, PEOPLE has learned exclusively.

The pair have reunited almost three weeks after Brown, 19, allegedly battered the “Umbrella” singer on Feb. 8, a source tells PEOPLE.

“They’re together again. They care for each other,” says the source. The on-again couple are currently spending time together at one of Sean “Diddy” Combs’s homes.
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Adds the source: “While Chris is reflective and saddened about what happened, he is really happy to be with the woman he loves.”

In its latest issue, PEOPLE reports that Brown called Rihanna on her 21st birthday one week ago. “He called to wish her happy birthday,” a source told the magazine. “They’ve reached out to each other. It’s been mutual.”

Brown was booked by LAPD for making criminal threats but the case has not yet been presented to the District Attorney, who will ultimately determine which charges, if any, will be prosecuted.


Ladytex
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09-27-2001

Friday, February 27, 2009 - 10:03 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Ladytex a private message Print Post    
Report: Brown taking anger-management class

LOS ANGELES - Chris Brown is taking an anger-management class, the New York Daily News reported.

According to the newspaper, the singer began class on Monday in Glendale, Calif., thanks to the suggestion of his recently hired publicist, Michael Sitrick.

“Chris doesn’t actually have to go by law,” a source told the Daily News. “But he believes it will make him look better to the public, and he wants to try to get in a few classes before March 5.”

Brown and singer Rihanna, with whom he was allegedly involved in a violent incident on February 8, are expected in court on March 5.

The “Forever” singer’s endorsement deal with Wrigley’s Doublemint gum has been suspended in the wake of the alleged assault.

Investigators are reportedly in the process of putting together a felony case against Brown.


Julieboo
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02-05-2002

Friday, February 27, 2009 - 10:08 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Julieboo a private message Print Post    
Too bad. What a bad message she is sending out. Oh well, her life, her choice.

Chewpito
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01-04-2004

Friday, February 27, 2009 - 10:42 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Chewpito a private message Print Post    
I don't know about southern Ca.. but up here in N.Ca... you don't have a choice if you go to anger management..(when DV is involved)..its court appointed and its mandatory..... so if he says he is doing it just to look better in the public eye, that's a joke...He has to go...its not up to him....
And I'm not surprised at all that they are back together....If I am to believe everything that gets thrown around....but I think it is prob true...
You cant turn off 'feelings' with a snap...no matter what your 'smart brain' tells you.... anyone in love that goes thru any sort of disaster (and I think this is a disaster for them, they are so young it makes me sad) but shit happens and it slowly widdles at you...but they will have to figure it out for their self's...
I work in a battered woman's shelter and have seen many things. I also am a victim of a very abusive marriage that ended very ugly and every one told me to do this, do that....and I went back, and back, and back..... sometimes it takes awhile to figure it out, but its not ours to figure out..
I really wish them luck and at least be able to talk about it together, peacefully and examine what happened and how it got to the point of ugly....
None of us will ever know what happened with them that night...
A man never has the right to put his hands,fists or ugly words on a woman....but it goes both ways... We all need to treat one another with respect and kindness...
They are young and most likely wont last for ever..(or maybe)...but I hope that they may always be friends and someday look back at this as a stumbling block,..and maybe it was a lesson 'not Lost'... and just a step to be a better person.
I wish them both luck....

Eeyoreslament
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07-20-2003

Saturday, February 28, 2009 - 12:09 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Eeyoreslament a private message Print Post    
He hasn't been convicted of anything YET, so he currently CAN'T be forced to go to anything.

I think this shows exactly how hard it is for many women to leave abusive relationships, and I hope it gets people talking, and gets people supporting the programs out there for women to find safety from abusive partners.

With that said, the amount of woman-on-man relationship abuse is VERY underreported, and it's like Chewpito says, it goes both ways.

I think if Chris Brown is getting help, and Rihanna's family is around to support her and has a more heightened awareness of the state of her relationship, then I don't have a problem with them trying to work things out.

I guess it all goes back to whether you think it is an example of whether the bad behavior makes the person inherently a bad person, or if it is a normal person who did a bad thing.

Julieboo
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02-05-2002

Saturday, February 28, 2009 - 7:18 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Julieboo a private message Print Post    
I just don't think beating up a person and leaving them on the side of a road could EVER be considered normal. It is horrible.

I am not saying Chris Brown is inherently a bad person. But that behavior was over the top.

Rihanna did not do him any favors by not pressing charges. (or herself or any other person involved in an abusive relationship who may have followed her lead...)

Jimmer
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08-30-2000

Saturday, February 28, 2009 - 8:26 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Jimmer a private message Print Post    
Of course that isn't normal behavior. It is horrible behavior.

The questions are:

a) Does that make him a bad person who will never get better and who can never be trusted in a relationship again?

b) Should the other partner in that sort of a relationship ever agree to resume the relationship?

I would hope that if they resume their relationship they will do so with careful counseling and that she would remove herself immediately at any hint of trouble.

I agree that this does demonstrate how people refuse to extricate themselves from these situations. Here is a woman with enormous advantages (money, power, assistance, support, etc.) that are not available to so many women in that situation and she still won't do it.

She did him a huge favor not pressing charges. No one wants to go to prison if there is another option available. I have no reason to believe that going to prison would be any more likely to make him change his behavior than other methods. I don't think prison creates nice people.

Julieboo
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02-05-2002

Saturday, February 28, 2009 - 9:36 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Julieboo a private message Print Post    
Just because she pressed charges does not mean he would absolutely go to prison. I don't think he should to go to prison. I think he should go to anger management classes for a long time. I think he should have to work at a battered woman's shelter so he can see what abuse can do to a person. I also don't think he is necessarily a bad person who could never be trusted again.

Also I do think she should have pressed charges. And I think she should not have gotten back together with him. At least not for a long while.

And I do not think she did him any favor by not pressing charges. That only lets him off the hook. ALso sends a bad message to any other women in an abusive situation who feel connected to her. They see she "forgave" him so that's what they'll do.

Seamonkey
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09-07-2000

Saturday, February 28, 2009 - 10:24 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Seamonkey a private message Print Post    
The cynic in me thinks it has more to do with the threats by Mark Geragos and company "leaked" to the media that suggested that they were going to paint Rihanna as the aggressor and instigator. Seems to have reeled her back in to a spot where she won't press charges. The anger management is probably also a pre-emptive move.

I just hope that whoever is orchestrating all of this has also talked seriously to Chris about the actual need for the anger management. I sure haven't seen bruises, scratches etc on him. Just saying.

As for her family, are they really "around Rihanna?" Thought they lived in Barbados and also that they seemed quite frustrated but didn't seem like she was necessarily listening to their advice anyway.

Eeyoreslament
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07-20-2003

Saturday, February 28, 2009 - 10:32 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Eeyoreslament a private message Print Post    
I think him leaving the scene could possibly have been a good thing. There are plenty of people who extricate themselves from a situation where they are reacting inappropriately. If she triggers him to do such heinous things, getting away from her may have been the best thing. I'm not saying that in a "blame the victim" way; I'm saying it in a way that if you're fighting with your girlfriend, and you're in the process of losing your sh*t, then get out of the situation that is exacerbating your behavior, before it even gets worse.

I'd rather he come to his senses half way through a beating and get the heck away from her, than to stand there and argue with her a bit more and give her a few more whacks, because it's not chivalrous to leave a lady alone on the street. Had he stayed there, he could have hurt her even more, or maybe even killed her by running her over or something. Who knows how far someone will go when they are impulsive and angry.

Nyheat
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08-09-2006

Saturday, February 28, 2009 - 11:05 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Nyheat a private message Print Post    
The whole thing is sordid and awful. I wish it wasn't front page news.

Teachmichigan
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07-22-2001

Saturday, February 28, 2009 - 11:13 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Teachmichigan a private message Print Post    
Is anyone else bothered by the reason Chris gave for going to these classes, to "make him look better to the public"? Ummm -- shouldn't he be going to LEARN TO CONTROL ANGER??? This all smells of a publicity stunt and a way to keep Rihanna under his thumb.

Julieboo
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02-05-2002

Saturday, February 28, 2009 - 11:35 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Julieboo a private message Print Post    
If she triggers him

That is so not fair to say. No matter what she does, HE is the one who chooses or not chooses to do something.

Julieboo
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02-05-2002

Saturday, February 28, 2009 - 11:42 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Julieboo a private message Print Post    
And if he absolutely needed to get away from her (like otherwise he'd keep on hitting her), then he should have gotten out of the car and gave her the keys.

Julieboo
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02-05-2002

Saturday, February 28, 2009 - 11:45 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Julieboo a private message Print Post    
And Sea, if that is the case, that she is being threatened, then that is as bad as this situation can get.

Chewpito
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01-04-2004

Saturday, February 28, 2009 - 12:15 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Chewpito a private message Print Post    
well the rummer is that she threw the keys out into 'who knows where'...so if that is true...the keys are a none issue. It is rummered that the throwing of the keys was the catalyst to the whole dang thing...

But I was not there...and nobody else 'here' was, so we feed on what the tabloids tell us...

Holly
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07-22-2001

Saturday, February 28, 2009 - 12:24 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Holly a private message Print Post    
Yes Teach, I am very bothered by it; the anger management is most likely a pre-emptive move as Sea said, done soley to make him look better to the DA and in his own words, to make him look better to the public. I hope the DA charges him regardless of what she wants, and he doesn't get off with a slap on the wrist. He needs a very rude awakening. Maybe it will save Rhianna or some other poor female from a brutal beating, or worse, in the future.

Maris
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03-28-2002

Saturday, February 28, 2009 - 12:26 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Maris a private message Print Post    
<93> Sorry, many people are trapped in abusive relationships because they have no other options, have kids, married no money. She has everything going for her. It doesnt matter if he reforms himself, he beat the crap out of her. She should walk and never look back.

How much sympathy are you going to have when she turns up beaten again????

She is 21 beyond her parents control. The girl needs to be in therapy <93>.

Holly
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07-22-2001

Saturday, February 28, 2009 - 12:36 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Holly a private message Print Post    
I doubt many people will have any sympathy for her the next time Maris. And I agree wholeheartedly--she needs to be in therapy to figure out why she would go back to a man who left her for dead in the street after choking her until she passed out.

And he needs to go to jail for a while until he REALLY learns you do not do that for any reason.

Maris
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03-28-2002

Saturday, February 28, 2009 - 12:38 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Maris a private message Print Post    
she must have zero self esteem

Jimmer
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08-30-2000

Saturday, February 28, 2009 - 12:56 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Jimmer a private message Print Post    
How much sympathy are you going to have when she turns up beaten again????

If that happens, I'll have a lot of sympathy for her. Certainly as much sympathy as I have for her right now. She will have made a mistake staying in the relationship and trusting someone and been further hurt as a result. It's not like she deserves to be punished for making a mistake.

Karuuna
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08-31-2000

Saturday, February 28, 2009 - 1:14 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Karuuna a private message Print Post    
A woman has been beaten should never *immediately* go back. She should insist that he take anger management along with some personal counseling - and then after he has shown that he is serious about fixing himself and has made progress (at least a year), she could consider reestablishing the relationship.

It's just too dangerous for her to do anything else.

Maris
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03-28-2002

Saturday, February 28, 2009 - 1:15 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Maris a private message Print Post    
I am not saying that Jimmer, I am saying that the press will not be as kind to her next time. Nobody deserves to be beaten but, why would you stay with someone who beats you to within an inch of your life.

Julieboo
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02-05-2002

Saturday, February 28, 2009 - 1:18 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Julieboo a private message Print Post    
She does not deserve to be punished for making a mistake. BUT she does need to take control of her life and do what she can (as in learn form her own history and past mistakes) to not make THE SAME MISTAKE AGAIN!

Julieboo
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02-05-2002

Saturday, February 28, 2009 - 1:19 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Julieboo a private message Print Post    
Agree with you there Karuuna. For herself and for anyone else that looks up to her.