EXCLUSIVE: Domestic Violence Group Outraged by Chris Brown Describing Rihanna Beating As 'A Mishap'
March 9 2011, Published 12:45 p.m. ET
R & B singer Chris Brown says he is ready to stop apologizing for his violent attack on Rihanna two years ago and move on from the "mishap," but women's groups aren't ready to forgive and forget, and expressed their outrage to Breaking Celebrity News over his flippant comments.
The Forever singer told Page Six Magazine that he is done saying sorry for attacking Rihanna in February 2009: "I’m in a positive place. I consider myself a grown-a ** man. And at the end of the day, if I walk around apologizing to everybody, I’m gonna look like a [expletive] fool.”
However, his lighthearted reaction has disgusted groups who devote their lives to protecting battered women such as Rihanna.
"To imply that it is something that can just be gotten over is just an insult against women across the country," Erin Matson, Acting Vice President of the National Organization of Women told Breaking Celebrity News in an exclusive interview. "It is very upsetting for Chris to think it is all about him.
"Whether we like it or not, celebrities get so much attention in our culture and with that attention comes responsibility. To see him backing away from his responsibility to speak out against intimate partner violence is horrifying," explains Matson.
In the Page Six interview, in Thursday’s edition of the New York Post, the 21-year-old singer revealed how many of his showbiz pals turned their backs on him after the incident.
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