After finally recovering from the bumps and bruises Chris Browm left, Rihanna is now mourning the loss of a special friend!
Jasmina Anema — a 6-year-old New York City fan — lost her battle with Leukemia late Wednesday and RiRi is devastated over the news of her death.
“I am incredibly heartbroken that Jasmina has passed away,” the singer tells Usmagazine.com in a statement. “She was such a brave and special child. She showed me more strength and spirit than many adults I have met. I feel blessed that I was able to have her in my life, and know that through her example she has saved many lives. She was truly an angel on earth.”
Rihanna and Jasmina first met in 2008 after the R&B singer came across a video made by the sick girl’s best friend and her mother in hopes to find the poor girl a bone-marrow donor. Touched by their efforts, Rihanna visited Jasmina in NYC last spring and even made a video of her own to increase their chances of finding someone to potentially save Jasmina’s life.
Unfortunately, on Monday, Jasmina — who received a bone-marrow transplant last year — became severely ill due to fevers and shortness of breath resulting in pneumonia. By Wednesday, her health had taken a toll for the worst and by 10:55 p.m. the young girl lost her fight with Leukemia.
In addition to RiRi, singer Kelly Rowland had also reached out to Jasmina and her family and tells Us exclusively that when she heard the news, “I was absolutely heartbroken.”
“She was a brave and lovely little girl that captured my heart the moment I met her,” she tells Us. “My heart goes out to her mother and best buddy, Isabelle and KMS- the organization that introduced me to her. Jasmina is with the angels now, may she rest in peace.”
How sad! We can totally see Rihanna writing a future song about the young girl’s life!
Rihanna won’t be walking the red carpet Sunday with any arm candy!
Though she’s been pictured with him numerous times over the past month, RiRi has no plans to bring baseball player Matt Kemp to this year’s Grammy Awards.
“I’m going to the Grammys alone, as always!” she said Thursday on 104.3 MY FM’s Valentine in the Morning show in Los Angeles. “Even when I was in a relationship, I always have gone alone.”
Before allowing for the next question, Rihanna blurted out, “I’m still single, if that’s what you really want to ask!”
Ohhh, so Matt Kemp is just a little friends-with-benefits dealio? Gotta love a girl who knows how to play the field just as well, if not better, than a guy!
“It was a blast!” Rihanna said of her trip with Kemp to Cabo San Lucas, Mexico.
Rihanna — who is nominated for Best Rap/Sung Collaboration with Jay-Z and Kanye West for Run This Town Tonight — is “excited” about Sunday’s show.
“This was actually the first piece of music we did since the last Grammys,” she said. “It’s exciting that it’s nominated.”
“We cannot wait. We hope we bring home the bacon, but if not, it’s great that it was nominated,” she added.
Girl must be damn excited for this year’s show considering she spent last year in a car getting the shit beat out of her!
While everyone knows to take Star magazine’s stories with a grain of salt, the new issue reports that Rihanna’s latest boytoy, L.A. Dodger Matt Kemp has been accused of beating his ex-girlfriend, Felisha Terrell, who even filed a restraining order against his ass!
Damn girl, you sure know how to pick them!
Running to clear his bad name, Kemp’s agent is attempting to resolve the issue, claiming the the court order, which was lifted, is now a “non-issue.”
“Matt dated Felisha about two years ago and decided to end their relationship,” agent Dave Stewart tells E! News. “She chose to file a complaint and shortly thereafter, on her own accord, decided to drop it based on the fact that the statements made within were false,” Stewart says in the statement.
“She has very recently said that she has no issue whatsoever with Matt and that she and Matt consider this to be a non-issue. Matt Kemp is a consummate Midwestern gentleman who has never displayed any act of violence towards a woman,” the statement concludes.
Midwestern gentleman?! As girls living in Chicago, we can easily say those are hard to come by!
Unlike Chris Brown, Kemp and his team deny any claims that he has an abusive past. In fact, a rep for the baseball star says he never laid a hand on his ex and that the restraining order had nothing to do with domestic violence.
“During the course of the relationship, there was a restraining order filed by Felisha, but it had nothing to do with domestic violence and to be clear Matt was NEVER physically abusive to Felisha, nor did she fear for her life,” the rep says.
“The restraining order was subsequently vacated. They both have moved on separately but remain amicable.”
Until the day Matt uses RiRi’s beautiful face as a punching bag, we think it’s safe to say this report may be a tad exaggerated!
Chris Brown is pissed that Rihanna finally got the balls to tell the world what really went down the night he went psycho on her ass!
Brown — who had his chance to speak on Larry King Live — chose to keep the details from that night private, while RiRi not so much!
“While I respect Rihanna’s right to discuss the specific events of February 8,” Brown says in a statement to MTV News, “I maintain my position that all of the details should remain a private matter between us.”
Should’ve, would’ve, could’ve buddy!
The second he left her face a bloody bruised-up mess, he made their matter public!
In her 20/20 interview, Rihanna told Diane Sawyer that Brown put her in a headlock twice and even bit her ears and fingers. “He had no soul in his eyes,” Rihanna said. “He was clearly blacked out.”
Breezy’s just livid that unlike most women, Rihanna finally had the courage to talk about an incident that most choose to keep silent about.
In his statement with MTV News, Brown continued, “I do appreciate [Rihanna's] support and wish her the best. I am extremely sorry for what I did, and I accept accountability for my actions . . . Abuse of any kind is always wrong. The rest I leave it to God.”
Then f*cking accept the fact that she has the right to talk and tell her story!
In an interview with 20/20’sDiane Sawyer airing tonight on ABC, Rihanna recalls the night Chris Brown played punching bag with her face and then took a bite out of her like she were a freakin’ burger!
At the time of the attack, Rihanna tells Sawyer that her then boyfriend was “blank” and “blacked out.”
As in blacked out from a little powder and liquid courage?
“It wasn’t the same person that says I love you. It was not those … eyes,” the singer says. “He had no soul in his eyes. Just blank… He was clearly blacked out. There was no person when I looked at him.”
Remembering back to that brutal night, Rihanna explains that Brown put her in headlock twice and then bit her ears and fingers! Was Breezy on some vampire shit?!
Though Chris has tried to apologize numerous times, Rihanna can’t find it in heart to fully forgive him and we don’t blame her!
“I just said to him, ‘I can’t do this.’ I resented him,” she says. “I always put the tough face on and try to, I can do anything face, and just try to play it off. But he knew.”
Rihanna even lied to Chris to avoid future beat-downs!
“He kept asking me, ‘You hate me, don’t you?’” she says. “And I would lie and I would say, ‘No, no.’ And… I did hate him. Everything about him annoyed me.”
The question boggling everyone’s mind is why she reunited with him in Miami at Diddy’s crib. Today, the singer calls the reunion a mistake and realizes she was blinded by love.
“I went through a host of emotions,” she tells Sawyer. “It was confusing for me. I was still attached by love. But I wasn’t thinking about the reality of the situation.”
Why has it taken Rihanna eight months to speak publicy on the incident? Is it simply a publicity stunt for her new album, Rated R, to be released Nov. 23? The singer explains…
“I knew I had to do this in order to move on for me and in order for my fans to move on with me because it would always be a question in their mind,” she explains. “I don’t want that five years from now every time they see Rihanna, they think of Chris Brown beating me. That’s not who I am. It’s just one thing that happened to me.”
Rihanna recently opened up about her abusive relationship with ex-boyfriend Chris Brown.
In the interview, to air Thursday on Good Morning America and Friday on 20/20, Rihanna admits that Brown was “definitely my first big love” but said their relationship eventually became self-destructive.
“The more in love we became, the more dangerous we became for each other,” the singer tells Diane Sawyer.
Back in August, Brown was sentenced to five years of probation, six months of community service and one year of domestic violence counseling after leaving Rihanna bruised and battered the night before the Grammy Awards.
“This happened to me … it can happen to anyone,” Rihanna tells Sawyer.
In addition to her ABC interview, Rihanna also opened up in the December issue of Glamour.
“I felt like I went to sleep as Rihanna and woke up as Britney Spears. That was the level of media chaos that happened the next day,” Rihanna says. “It was like, What, there are helicopters circling my house? There are 100 people in my cul-de-sac? What do you mean, I can’t go back home?”
She also says that having the photo of her beaten face leaked on the internet was “humiliating.”
“That is not a photo you would show to anybody,” she says. “I felt completely taken advantage of. I felt like people were making it into a fun topic on the Internet, and it’s my life.”
Since suffering from the attack, she says she relies heavily on her family and on God.
“My friends and family have been extremely supportive, and everyone has been there for me. But at some point you are there alone. It’s a lonely place to be — no one can understand,” she says. “That’s when you get close to God.”
We’re so happy Rihanna has finally gained the strength and confidence to open up about the attack. Hopefully hearing her story will help other women overcome their issues with domestic abuse.
Rihanna is finally breaking her silence nine months after her ex-boyfriend brutally attacked her.
Rihanna sat down with Diane Sawyer in an interview scheduled to air Thursday on Good Morning America and on 20/20 on Friday.
Rihanna made it clear that domestic violence does not discriminate. It crosses ethnic, racial, generational, sexual orientation, religious and socioeconomic lines, and nearly one in three women will experience physical abuse in their lifetime.
“This happened to me. … It can happen to anyone,” the singer told Sawyer.
Rihanna says it was particularly difficult because - even though he kicked the shit out of her - she was still madly in love with him.
“He was definitely my first big love,” Rihanna said.
We’re glad Rihanna is turning her horrible experience into a positive by drawing awareness to domestic abuse. We have no doubt this will be healing for her, and she’ll come out a stronger person for it!
The ink has barely dried on reports that Justin Timberlake and Jessica Biel are dunzo, and already he has a new girlfriend and it’s Rihanna!
Um, Dolce & Gabbana HELLO, random alert!
On Sept. 13 the hot pop stars were spotted “grinding” at 1Oak’s MTV Video Music Awards bash in NYC and then moved their party to Rihanna’s hotel room, according to Starmagazine.com. That’s right. There’s nothing more fun than a private late-night dance party in a hotel room even if your music source is nothing more than a radio alarm clock…holla!
“They tried to keep it a secret, but Jessica found out within days,” a source says. “She must be a wreck.”
And it sounds like their one-night stand was anything but a one-night stand!
“Rihanna and Justin have been talking and texting on the phone nonstop since the VMAs,” a source tells Star.
But before Rihanna let’s her guard down, she wants to make sure she’s not his lady on the side. “She asked him on the phone, ‘Are you still with Jessica?’ And he hinted that things were cooling off between them,” a source said.
Justin told RiRi that she is not just one of his many girls on the sidelines — the SexyBack rocker isn’t interested in games and made it clear he wants to date Rihanna.
“Justin has made it clear he is 100 percent into Rihanna, and she equally feels the magnetic attraction,” says a source. “She is a total tease and loves flirting with him. She digs him and wants to date him too!”
And not only are the two getting hot in the bedroom, they may be getting hot in the studio too by collaborating on some music projects together.
Congrats to RiRi for A: Beating the first date sex curse. And B: Refusing to be any man’s “woman on the side”. No respectable girl would settle for that and RiRi deserves and clearly is ready for a REAL man!
Courts Release Report On Chris Brown’s Attack On Rihanna!
August 26th, 2009
The court has released the police report from the night Chris Brown beat the crap out of Rihanna and it ain’t pretty!
TMZ obtained a copy of the report which details each time Brown hit, punched and bit Rihanna. He even went so far as to putting her in a headlock and tried to throw her from a moving vehicle.
The altercation is way worse than we imagined. This was not some accidental swing he took at RIRi in the heat of the moment. This was a long drawn out battle that escalated over what had to have been a significant amount of time.
Rihanna is taking steps to allow Chris Brown physically back into her life.
A lawyer for RiRi says that she does not believe the restraining order against Chris is necessary and plans to ask a judge to rescind the protective order, according to Star magazine.
As the order stands now, the two pop stars are not allowed to come within 50 yards of each other. However, Rihanna’s lawyer will ask Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Patricia Schnegg that Chris only be prohibited from harassing, annoying or molesting Rihanna.
Why not keep the order in place to ensure that?!
Chris plead guilty to assault and is expected to receive five years probation and 180 days of community service. He is also required to take a year of domestic violence classes and pay fines.
It sounds like Rihanna wants to get back together with Chris which would be a HUGE mistake!
