Rihanna admitted that she watched her father beat her mother as she was growing up – and vowed never to date an abusive man.The 21-year-old singer told ABC: "I'd be beating on my dad's leg all the time trying to stand in the middle, breaking glass bottles so they could hear something else and snap out of it. My mum never went to hospital but he broke her nose one time. I always said to myself, 'I'm never gonna date someone like my dad, never'."Rihanna, who was beaten up by then-boyfriend Chris Brown after a Grammys party, said of that night: "I was very happy, we had a blast that night. But then I caught him at a traffic light and he wouldn't tell the truth. I wouldn't drop it."Rihanna had discovered a flirty text message on Brown's mobile phone from another girl."I couldn't take that he kept lying to me and he couldn't take that I wouldn't drop it because obviously his back was up against the wall," she said. "It escalated into him being violent towards me and it was ugly."All I could think about at the time was, 'When is it going to stop?' He had no soul in his eyes, just blank. He was clearly blacked out. I didn't lose consciousness but I definitely had difficulty breathing."source: Splash News
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