Oprah Winfrey repeated her 'Love-doesn't-hurt' caution to Rihanna in a special episode of her show dedicated to violence against women.
© AFP/File Brad BarketMarch 12, 2009, (Sawf News) - Oprah Winfrey repeated her 'Love-doesn't-hurt' caution to Rihanna in a special episode of her show dedicated to violence against women.
"I've said before love doesn't hurt, and if a man hits you once, he will hit you again," Winfrey said on Thursday on her show that aired live from Chicago.
Winfrey had earlier delivered the grim message to Rihanna on her show Friday, March 6, while speaking with a panel of experts.
Appearing as a guest, Tyra Banks recalled her own interviews with Rihanna and Brown who appeared separately on her show. Both witnessed domestic abuse while growing up.
"Rihanna told me that her parents used to argue so intensely and she used to get these headaches, almost migraines ... and it was almost living hell for her," Banks said. "The moment her parents separated, the headaches went away."
Brown told Banks that the violence that he witnessed at home between his mother and her partner would make him pee in his bed.
"It's so sad that even when you grow up in an environment and you disdain that environment, you really cannot help yourself until someone helps you," Winfrey lamented.
"When you grew up in an environment where there is abuse, it's more acceptable to you," Winfrey said. "If you go back with a man who hits you it's because you don't think you're worthy of being with a man who won't."
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