“I didn’t talk about it to anyone. To no one. Not my friends. Not my family. I didn’t want people looking at me and feeling sorry for me like “There goes the victim!”. So I felt really lonely. I felt really lonely. There were times when I cried. There were times where I just sat there all day watched tv. “ - narrated by Rihanna, Rihanna Breaks Her Silence About Chris Brown Saga : ABC News, 2009

“Point blank. Denial is you start lying to yourself. The minute the physical wounds go away, you..you want this thing to go away. This is a memory you don’t want to have ever again. So the minute the physical wounds go away you try to put it in the back of your head and you start lying to yourself subconsciously.” - narrated by Rihanna, Rihanna Breaks Her Silence About Chris Brown Saga : ABC News

“I fell in love with that person. That’s embarrassing. That’s embarrassing that that’s the type of person that I fell in love with “ - narrated by Rihanna, Rihanna Breaks Her Silence About Chris Brown Saga : ABC News, 2009