Rihanna, a Glamour 2009 Woman of the Year, talks about how she coped after the Chris Brown assault in February and all the attention it caused. “I went to sleep as Rihanna and woke up as Britney Spears,” the singer says in December’s Glamour (out Nov. 10). “That was the level of media chaos that happened the next day.” She adds: “The positive thing that has come out of my situation is that people can learn from that. I want to give as much insight as I can to young women, because I feel like I represent a voice that really isn’t heard.” Rihanna will be honored at the magazine’s annual Women of the Year event Monday in New York.
“This happened to me. … It can happen to anyone,” the singer, 21, tells Diane Sawyer in an interview airing Thursday on Good Morning America and on 20/20 on Friday. Rihanna says it was particularly difficult because of the special place Brown held in her heart: “He was definitely my first big love.”
