Concern Rises Over Rihanna's Safety
Several well-known women, hearing she may be back with boyfriend Chris Brown, are urging her to heed history, and patterns of male batterers. Brown is charged with beating her.
It's unclear whether singing star Rihanna will testify against boyfriend Chris Brown if the R&B star goes on trial on charges he beat her.
But some well-known women are voicing concern over Rihanna's well-being in light of widespread reports that she and Brown have reconciled.
Celebrity Web site TMZ's Harvey Levin says Rihanna and Brown have even been recording together, a duet.
And all this is raising eyebrows.
On CNN's "Larry King Live," Robin Givens, ex-wife of boxer Mike Tyson, said, "It's hard to sit here, it's very difficult."
Givens says she was repeatedly abused by Tyson.
Photos: Rihanna
"You have to be careful," she cautioned. "You're not 'fighting' with a man. A man is hitting you. You're not 'fighting." '
Oprah Winfrey went even further on her show, warning Rihanna that, "Love doesn't hurt. And if a man hits you once, he WILL hit you again."
Photos: Chris Brown
And Denise Brown, sister of the late Nicole Brown Simpson, slain wife of O.J. Simpson, went further still, saying, "If they hit you once they'll hit you again, and if they ever threaten to kill you, eventually, one day they will."
Brown was also on CNN's "Larry King Live."
TMZ reports it was a text message from Brown's manager, sexual in nature, that set everything off.
Says TMZ's Levin, "Rihanna sees this message, which is basically saying, 'Let's hook up later,' she goes ballistic, she slaps him, she hits him, and he fires back and allegedly beats the ever-loving you know what out of her."
Denise Brown said, "I don't care what she does, you do not hit! It is unacceptable."
Chris Brown is slated to enter a plea on the assault charges against him next month.