Rihanna opens up to Vanity Fair US

Rihanna gets naked for Vanity Fair. She does it by exposing her body in a fashion editorial shot in Cuba by Annie Leibovitz, but does it especially in a long and intimate interview.

The twenty seven years-old star speaks freewheeling about many aspects of her life: her next album, her reputation as Bad Riri, her favourite TV series, the gap between character and person, sex and even her controversial relationship with Chris Brown, which ended in 2009 after a notorious beating.

Here are some of the most interesting parts.

1. Bad girl? She prefers TV series. Which? Bates Motel and forensic shows such as The First 48 and Snapped.

"Honestly, I've been thinking lately about how boring I am. When I have time for myself, I watch TV".

2. No serious love stories, only rumors, she does not even have sex...

"That’s why I haven’t been having sex or even really seeing anybody, because I don’t want to wake up the next day feeling guilty. I mean I get horny, I’m human, I’m a woman, I want to have sex. But what am I going to do—just find the first random cute dude that I think is going to be a great ride for the night and then tomorrow I wake up feeling empty and hollow?"

3. Chris Browne remains her last boyfriend. They love each other, he beats her, her pictures with a black-and-blue face go around the world, and she leaves him. Then four years later they it try again, but it doesn’t work.

"I was that girl, that girl who felt that as much pain as this relationship is, maybe some people are built stronger than others. Maybe I’m one of those people built to handle shit like this. Maybe I’m the person who’s almost the guardian angel to this person, to be there when they’re not strong enough, when they’re not understanding the world, when they just need someone to encourage them in a positive way and say the right thing. I was very protective of him. I felt that people didn’t understand him. Even after… But you know, you realize after a while that in that situation you’re the enemy. You want the best for them, but if you remind them of their failures, or if you remind them of bad moments in their life, or even if you say I’m willing to put up with something, they think less of you—because they know you don’t deserve what they’re going to give. And if you put up with it, maybe you are agreeing that you [deserve] this, and that’s when I finally had to say,'Uh-oh, I was stupid thinking I was built for this.' Sometimes you just have to walk away. I don’t hate him. I will care about him until the day I die. We’re not friends, but it’s not like we’re enemies. We don’t have much of a relationship now".

4. On the concept of victim.

"Well, I just never understood that, like how the victim gets punished over and over. It’s in the past, and I don’t want to say ‘Get over it,’ because it’s a very serious thing that is still relevant; it’s still real. A lot of women, a lot of young girls, are still going through it. A lot of young boys too. It’s not a subject to sweep under the rug, so I can’t just dismiss it like it wasn’t anything, or I don’t take it seriously. But, for me, and anyone who’s been a victim of domestic abuse, nobody wants to even remember it. Nobody even wants to admit it. So to talk about it and say it once, much less 200 times, is like … I have to be punished for it? It didn’t sit well with me".

5. She is lonely, but the work helps.

"I’m fine being with myself. I don’t want to really let anybody in. I’ve got too much on my plate, and I’m not even worried about it". 

6. The ideal man?

"A very extraordinary gentleman, with a lot of patience, will come along when I least expect it. And I don’t want it right now. I can’t really be everything for someone. This is my reality right now. So one day, I say, someone will come in on a white horse … Not on a white horse. Probably on a black motorcycle".