Rihanna is on the cover of ELLE Magazine. Talks about becoming liberated

Rihanna is on the cover of ELLE Magazine, wearing a embellished, pale yellow bandeau top, jacket and skirt.

In the issue the Bajan beauty talks about moving on from her ex-boyfriend Chris Brown and that she has accept what happened between them in 2009.


“The bottom line is that everyone thinks differently," Rihanna told  Elle. "It’s very hard for me to accept, but I get it. People end up wasting their time on the blogs or whatever, ranting away, and that’s all right. Because tomorrow I’m still going to be the same person. I’m still going to do what I want to do.”
On her breakup with Chris Brown:

It gave me guns. I was like, well, f*uck. They know more about me than I want them to know. It’s embarrassing. But that was my opening. That was my liberation, my moment of bring it. […] Now you know that, so you can say what you want about it. I don’t have anything to hide.”

"I have more freedom the more people know about me," says Rihanna. "It's like, one less skeleton in the closet, one less burden, one less secret; now you know that, so you can say what you want about it. I don't have anything to hide."

On kids and relationships:

"It could be tomorrow. It could be 20 years from now") and finding a man ("There’s just a major drought out there"

Read more when the issue hits newsstands April 17