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 A preview of Rihanna's interview with "20/20" hit the internet on Friday (November 6), in which the singer describes the night that Chris Brown assaulted her.
In the interview, the 20-year-old singer confirmed rumors that the fight started over a text message Brown received that Rihanna saw. It was rumored that the text came from Paris Hilton, but this was never confirmed.
"I caught him in a lie and he wouldn't tell the truth, so, I wouldn't drop it," Rihanna said in the interview with Diane Sawyer, which aired on "Good Morning America." "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 against the wall -- the truth was right here in the text message. So, it accelarated towards him being violent towards me and it was ugly."
It's already been revealed that Brown punched Rihanna and even bit her. During that moment, Rihanna said Breezy "blacked out," explaining that he wasn't the same person she knew.
She says all she was thinking was: "When is it going to stop?"
"He had no soul in his eyes -- just blank. He was clearly blacked out," Rihanna said. "There was no person when I looked at him. All I kept thinking all the time, 'When is it going to stop? When it is going to stop?'"
According to Rihanna, when the two reunited shortly after the February incident, Brown wanted to get back together, but she had already made the decision that things had to end between them.
"He didn't accept that very well," Rihanna said. "He obviously didn't want us to be apart, but I knew I had to make a decision for me."
(Watch the clip of Rihanna speaking on the incident here  )
While some feel that she is now speaking out, conveniently, as a new single and album are on the way, but the singer says she wants her incident to be a warning to other women.
"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," Rihanna said. "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."
Following the clip, people in the Brown camp accused Rihanna of lying, via updates on Twitter. "Shame on Rihanna," one person tweeted. Another said the interview was strictly for publicity: "Riri just needs away 2. Get her career back up."
More of the interview airs on "20/20" tonight (November 6).
Additionally, Rihanna is set to play a concert, sponsored by Nokia, in London on November 16, in support of her upcoming album, Rated R, due later this month. The concert will streamed live, via a webcast on nowplaying.nokia.com.
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