GIANT EXCLUSIVE: Is Chris Brown Violent?

Chris Brown violent? In an August 2007 interview with GIANT magazine, the young R&B star talks about witnessing domestic violence in his childhood home:
Like the day an 11-year-old Brown made a promise to his mother.

He vowed that he would go to jail by age 15 for killing his abusive stepfather. “I just want you to know that I love you,” he told her in GIANT. “But I’m gonna take a baseball bat one day while you at work, and I’m gonna kill him.”

Brown’s parents had separated when he was seven. When his mother remarried, she moved her son and his new stepfather to a trailer park. Then his stepfather shot himself in the head. The shot went straight through the eyes. He survived the suicide attempt but was permanently blinded.

“When you’re blind, your senses are heightened, like your smell, hearing, your sense of touch,” Brown explains to GIANT. “You can move and maneuver around your sight. But he used to hit my mom…. He made me terrified all the time, terrified like I had to pee on myself. I remember one night he made her nose bleed. I was crying and thinking, ‘I’m just gonna go crazy on him one day…’ I hate him to this day.”

As his young world spins on an axis of fame, money and music — getting advice from everyone from Usher to Michael Jackson — rising superstar Chris Brown wants to balance the normal and the crazy. Who says it can’t be done?
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“I can’t help it,” the teenage superstar snaps back from the court as he shakes his wrist. “I jerked off before I got here.” Full Story

Rhianna's Own Troubled Past:

Apparently, Chris Brown isn’t the only star in this domestic violence drama who has a troubled past. In a June/July 2007 coverstory, Rihanna talked about how her father’s drug abuse and parents’ marital woes effected her:
Her father, Ronald, who is of both black and white heritage, works as a warehouse supervisor for a garment factory and was addicted to many drugs, including crack and weed, Rihanna told GIANT. “I just knew that my mom and dad would always argue when there was a foil paper with an ashtray,” says Rihanna. “He would just go to the bathroom all the time. I didn’t know what it was. I really did not know. I just thought it was normal. Then one day, I heard them arguing about it. Then he did it again. And I told her. I said, ‘Mom, he did that ashtray thing again.’”
Then, as a young girl, Rihanna began having terrible headaches. Her mother, an accountant of Guyanese descent, dreaded the possibility that her daughter might have a brain tumor. But actually, Rihanna was keeping such a stiff upper lip about her parents’ marital problems, her massive stress was making her head hurt.
“I was just taking on too much. I wouldn’t cry or act, so it really affected me in here,” she told GIANT, pointing to her head. “I would go to school like a normal kid. No one would know that I had a problem. I always had a smile on my face. But that’s when it started to mess with me.”

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