Posts Tagged ‘beating’

Bow Wow Talks About Chris Brown

February 23rd, 2009 / Author: OK! Staff

Rap artist Bow Wow recently got up close and personal with OK! about the ongoing investigation into Chris Brown’s alleged beating of girlfriend Rihanna.

While promoting his new album New Jack City II at NYC’s Planet Hollywood Times Square on Feb. 23, Bow Wow told OK! that when he first heard the news of Chris and Rihanna’s fight, he didn’t know what to think.

"I mean, being in the business, the first thing is ‘ah, it’s false, another rumor, bloggers just wanting to have traffic to their site,’" Bow Wow tells OK!. "But when the story was unfolding, it was kind of shocking to all. Chris is a good friend of mine. We’ve had the opportunity to tour together. And then Rihanna, she’s just a beautiful person. Period. Never done no wrong to nobody."

Bow Wow continues, "At the end of the day I’ve always believed in whatever happens with people’s business…my mom always told me don’t get into. And the situation is so major I think they just need their space and I think they need to deal with it."

The rapper says the media needs to back off the estranged couple because it’s making it harder for them both.

 
"I’ve been in a high profile relationship before and I know how it feels when everybody’s in your business. It just puts more pressure. And the only way they’re going to get over the situation is just to let them deal with it. And that’s what I really want to do. I’m praying for them both."

Bow Wow, who says he hasn’t spoken to either Chris or Rihanna, says he couldn’t believe the horrifying picture that leaked on the internet last week, showing the singer with cuts and bloodied bruises on her face.

"Just shocking," he tells OK!.  "I mean we heard what happened but we really didn’t get a visual for it. But I mean hey, man. The picture speaks for itself."

By Laura Lane

Rihanna Seeks Solace

February 17th, 2009

Looking back on her spectacular rise to fame, Rihanna once reflected on the greatest obstacle she’d overcome in the course of her career. Surprisingly, it had nothing to do with her music, the media or the sudden pressures of celebrity.

"The biggest challenge is being away from my family and friends and all the people that I love and am used to being around," the singer, who turns 21 on Feb. 20, told OK!. "To just throw that all away and be by myself, really, with a bunch of new people, that’s the hardest part."

Now, during what may well be the most traumatic time in her life–the anguished aftermath of a Feb. 8 beating in L.A.–allegedly at the hands of her boyfriend, R&B star Chris Brown–Rihanna has cancelled a tour of the Far East and gone home to seek comfort in the embrace of her loved ones in St. Michael, Barbados.

"She went to Barbados at the urging of her family," a close friend, who has spoken to Rihanna since the alleged attack, tells OK!. "She wanted a sense of calm to collect her thoughts. Right now, Rihanna’s been reclusive and a shell of her former self. She sounds a bit in shock that everything’s ended up this way. She’s just very quiet on the phone. It’s like she just didn’t want to talk about the incident."

As for Chris Brown, the friend says, "This is someone she loved and thought loved her. The entire incident is saddening."

For more details on Rihanna’s trip home to Barbados, pick up the new OK!–on newsstands everywhere on Thursday.

David Beckham Sued for Allegedly Beating Photographer

January 26th, 2009

Another celebrity, another paparazzi beatdown–this time involving soccer and underwear stud David Beckham.

TMZ is reporting a photographer named Emicles Da Mata filed a suit last month in L.A. Superior Court, in which he claims that on Dec. 7, 2008, he stopped his car on a Beverly Hills street when Beckham reached through the driver’s window and grabbed his camera and attempted to wrestle it from him.

The lawsuit also claims Beckham’s bodyguard–also a defendant–then beat him repeatedly, grabbed the camera and threw it in a trash can. 

 

Hmm, it’s so hard to know who to side with in these stories…(insert sarcastic tone)

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