After her attack by Chris Brown, Rihanna confessed that she was hunted by photographers so badly that she started to feel like Britney Spears.
She says that she wasn’t expecting to become the subject of all of the press attention, so she went into hiding after the attack. Obviously, she did not want her bruised face to be photographed, and who could blame her?
She said, “It has taught me so much. I felt like I went to sleep as Rihanna and woke up as Britney Spears. That was the level of media chaos that happened the next day. It was like, ‘What, there are helicopters circling my house? There are 100 people in my cul-de-sac? What do you mean, I can’t go back home?’”
After finding that her battered photo had been leaked, she found it difficult to keep quiet about the incident.
She added, “It was humiliating. That is not a photo you would show to anybody. I felt completely taken advantage of. I felt like people were making it into a fun topic on the internet, and it’s my life. I was disappointed, especially when I found out the photo was (supposedly leaked by) two women.”
The two female officers were suspended in September for their actions. Good! It’s bad enough that this happened in the first place, but law enforcement officials are supposed to be there to protect victims, not profit from them.
