The art of minding your own business

Remember back in 2009 when Chris Brown beat Rihanna like a man, and everyone and their mama had something to say about it? I’m talking about opinions out the woodwork.
Rumors flying, gossip, blogs, magazines etc. However, at the same time, everyone’s variation of the story never seems to add up. Nothing made sense because the only two that knew what happened, were them.
Everyone took the little bit of information that was confirmed and made assumptions for days. Chris Brown was painted as this horrible person and hit her just because they got in an argument.
So you’re telling me this person who constantly has to be in the public eye would purposely damage his career by hitting a woman, (who is also a celebrity) over an argument? Um no. but hey, I guess anything is possible. Right Dr. Dre?
To be honest, it was really nobody’s business but theirs so I left that between them and God.
You can tell it had a major effect because both of their images seemed to change drastically. I remember wondering when did Chris suddenly become rapper after “Look at me Now” dropped and Rihanna went from “Take a Bow” to “B**ch Better Have my Money” (insert Mr. Krabs meme here).
Recently, Chris released biography saying what actually happened eight years ago and naturally everybody had something to say again. This time I’ve decided to share my two cents, so here it goes.
Now that Chris has come out with the story suddenly things have changed.
Don’t get me wrong, people are going to talk regardless but I feel like it’s wrong to take sides when you don’t even know what happened. Chris nor Rihanna have released a statement saying anything relevant.
Rihanna even had an interview with Oprah and still hardly mentioned anything on how it came about; and if you won’t talk to Oprah about it, the subject is pretty much dead!
The whole situation was very wrong from the beginning, but the problem comes in when people portrayed Rihanna as this damsel in distress when she played her part too.
To me, any arguments that led up to that will never justify the fact that she did hit him first. Yes, he was wrong for lying to her.
Yes, he was wrong for beating her, but nobody even considered the events that led up to that. It was already an unhealthy relationship that went too far, but it wasn’t the world’s relationship anyway, it was theirs.
So moral of the story: drink water and mind your business.