More Media Whores Poppin Out of the Woodwork

Posted on March 11th, 2009 - By Bossip Staff

Categories: Chris Brown, News, Rihanna

Posted by Bossip Staff

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Striving for relevancy, Robin Givens uses her only claim to fame to get out in the spotlight once more:

Robin Givens has a message for Rihanna: Get out now. The actress and ex-wife of former heavyweight champ Mike Tyson spoke about her own experience with domestic violence on “Larry King Live” Tuesday night, and told guest host Joy Behar that hearing about the pop star’s troubles with boyfriend Chris Brown brings back painful memories. “Even sitting now, you know, here with you, it shakes you up,” said Givens. “You know, you begin to sweat. You begin to feel sad all over. … It’s hard to sit here.”

Brown, 19, has been charged with two felonies after allegedly punching, choking and biting Rihanna, 21, on the day of the Grammy Awards. Sources report that the couple are back together.

Givens, who is now a spokesperson for the National Domestic Violence Hotline, called the similarities between her own story and other stories of abuse “amazing.”

“I find that my story is their story; their story is my story — down to the details,” she said. “He dragged me down the hall by my hair. He pulled me out of bed by my panties. He would like to choke me. He would kick.”

Givens described how Tyson’s emotional apologies made it difficult for her to walk away. “All of a sudden this person, this man that you love, that’s claiming his love for you, is crying, you know?” she said. “And then you’re consoling them. And it just becomes, I’ll never, ever, ever do it again. … I just love you so much. It’s so hard for me to handle how much I love you. And it just begins.”

Asked by Behar why she continued to stay with Tyson, Givens replied, “I was very bonded. And it’s hard to be bonded and save yourself at the same time.” Givens ended the interview with some parting advice for Rihanna. “The one thing I’d like to say to Rihanna, actually; as difficult as this all is, she does not have to answer to the media,” Givens said. “She doesn’t have to explain it. She has to take care of herself.”

How pathetic that ole girl is still harping on this tired story for some attention. Hey Robin, time to get a new hustle, and stop boring us with those stories of Iron Mike whipping that ass.


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  • Sickofitt!

    YYYYYYAAAAAAAAAAAWWWWWWWWWWWWWNNNNNNNNNN!!!!!!!!!!!

  • Sickofitt!

    I am a confessed Man Beater and I know who to get crazy with. Mike would not be one of them. I wouldn’t even date Mike because I would be afraid of him or Suge Knight.

  • BowTie-Pimp

    Doesnt she sort of look like rihanna in the picture

    Its all in the forehead

  • Mannie

    I THINK OT’S WRONG FOR A MAN TO PUT HIS HANDS ON A FEMALE BUT IFE MIKE DID HIT HER, SHE DESERVED IT.

    IF PEOPLE COULD NOT SEE THAT SHE WAS CLEARLY AFTER IS MONEY, AND TO RUINE HIS IMAGE, AND ALSO TARNISH HIS CAREER WITH THE HELP OF DON KING, THEN YOUR AN IDIOT.

    THIS WOMAN IS A PRIME EXAMPLE OF WHAT A LOT OF MEN WHO HAVE WEALTH FALL VICTIM TO. A CRAZY WOMAN WHO IS AFTER A GUYS MONEY AND NOT REALLY THERE FOR HIM AT HEART.

    AND LIKE IDIOTS,A LOT OF MEN FALL FOR THESE TYPE OF WOMAN, OHH SHE IS FINE, SHE HAS A NICE BODY, OHH I WOULD KILL THOSE DRAWS. AND THEN YOU END UP LIKE MIKE TYSON IN THE END, LONELY AND HEART BROKEN.

    I BELIEVE THE LAST VICTIM WAS TYRESE GIBSON.

  • Apride23

    lol.. Rihanna looks like Robin in that pic… Robin and Robyn.

  • pat

    not sure if robin got Mike for his miliions or not…im not mad at robin…cuz i know Mike whooped that ass….good she escaped with her life and hopefully with some dough

  • http://YAHOO.COM BROOKLYN

    Rihanna going to do what she want to do, people can tell her what to do but it’s her decison on how she feel about her boo.

  • She 4 real

    I saw her on the tube talking about it. I think he rattled something loose in Robin cuz she is a lil crazy!

  • STEFANY

    Every abused woman in America now has a story to tell in the wake of Rihanna and Chris Brown..I’m not saying what Mike did to Robin was right but she should shut the hell up she’s already had her time and we already know her story.

  • Sickofitt!

    Damm, I had a lot of typos in that post LOL.

  • c from stl

    Ok, no one and I do mean NO ONE deserves to get hit or have to deal with violence but this trollup does not get any respect from me. I saw her fake azz on Larry King last night and I was not impressed with her attempt to come off as the victim. Everyone knows that she was the queen of all golddiggers and had no good intentions towards Mike. Even though she does not deserve to get hit, she deserved the negativity that came her way because she definitely had it out for Mike. She tries to mask her dirty deeds by constantly harping on how he was violent towards her but she also was a villain in this situation.

  • sweet_lies

    well that explains what happened to her hairline.

    btw, i SWORE that was riri in the main pic! weird…

    on a serious note, what robyn is saying is right. she’s giving good advice and her explanaition for why women stay is accurate.

  • Elle

    Dr. Donald Dutton the author of the book, “The Batterer” said that it would take three years for people that are batterers to get their mindset to change. So even with intense counseling and group work, it takes a long time for a person to change.

    Does that mean that Rhianna will have three more years of ass-whipping before Chris gets his mind right and stop attacking her?

  • Speculations

    Ditto on she looks like Rhianna in that pic.

  • Elle

    If Robyn got any money from Mike Tyson, she EARNED every penny of it. Mike Tyson is extremely damaged and perverse.

    Robyn is telling the truth though.

    All kinds of men can be abusers. People are thinking that because Chris Brown is young, good-looking and rich, he CAN’T be a batterer, but he can and many men are.

    Hell, even our pastor was beating up his wife too.

  • Mia

    how can she compare C Breezy to that psycho Mike Tyson? Robin needs to just fall back…

  • The Twinz Mama

    Third on the fact that Robin looks like Robyn in that pic….

  • Elle

    C Breezy is Mike Tyson……..just give him a few years.

  • BrownPhillyYoung&Grown

    i had 1 “incident” with a guy…i ran soooooooo fast he probably forgot that i was ever there. RUN RUN RUN

    they always do it again

    he had a nerve to call me when he found out i was engaged…i fleed him so quick, he get’s no air time or conversation. i mean NONE. with his funny looking self. lol (sorry yall…i gotta flashback)

  • Awesome-0-3000

    Ms. Givens was stepping into those punches. Gold Digger Deluxe. Big swole chin, give me a break

  • BrownPhillyYoung&Grown

    when it comes to domestic violence

    RUN TELL THAT !!! (cops, your father, brothers, uncles, nephews, bad youngins in the neighborhood who likes you, lol)

  • Hope

    Robin didn’t walk away with Tyson’s money, that was Don King. And any idiot who defends Mike, a convicted rapist and known woman beater, is purely pathetic. Thank God for women like Givens who speak up and empower other women to leave their abusers. It is so sad that black women are so devalued by the black community that we enable men to continue to beat and kill our women by defending and excusing their bad behavior. I’m pretty sure that the life Givens is leading is much more productive than Tyson’s.

  • c from stl

    @A mess indeed

    I’m assuming your comments were directed towards me amongst others and you are right but I have to say this. Those very same women that would so-called ‘miss the message’ that Robin was trying to get across should also take notes to not be a conniving opportunist like Robin was and then maybe they’ll pick a man that will not whoop their behinds. Maybe they will understand that having dollar signs in your eyes will blind you to what is in front of you. H3ll I can see Mike is crazy by just looking at him, but if you have alterior motives you might look past all that and walk into an f’d up situation all because of your desires to be ‘saved’. My main point is that yes, no woman deserves to get pounded on, but it’s hard to take advice from someone who already has their own negative ways that have nicely been put on blast!

  • Balls Deep

    That pic is priceless!!

  • KD

    I totally disagree with you saying she’s speaking to be relevant. Robin (as well as the whole rest of the panel who were on the show last night) are the best informed, have been there, and SHOULD be speaking out against this violence. Shame on you. :(

  • http://Bossip luvjons

    I agree ATLfinest…she is so over the top..damn..how long are you going to lick those wounds..we are over it..and how can you give anyone on advice about being abused when you did it for the M-O-N-E-Y…GIRL STOP!

  • FURIOUZ STYLEZ

    1ST WHITNEY…NOW R. GIVENS

    –ARE WE GONNA HAVE THE GODMOTHER OF ASSWHOOPINS HERSELF TINA TURNER GIVE HER TWO CENTS IN?

  • circa-81

    What happened to the gray area well balanced people in society? Now it’s black and white it seems (not talking about race idiots); you either have ravenous blood thirsty murderers or either the other side which is almost as agitating – victimized, gullable, peace sign pushin’, brainwashed, couseling and therapy seeking or promoting, sissies. I swear the goverment did a good job when they started injecting families with goverment backed social workers; statistics have become the truth and dumbasses followed and became sheep. WTF.

  • Moreaces

    Mia

    how can she compare C Breezy to that psycho Mike Tyson? Robin needs to just fall back
    ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
    Because both men beat/abuse women,, 1+1=2 All The Time.

  • *Treasure*

    Roe ski Love – The checks in the mail

    You can’t determine how people feel for one another by pictures and interviews. I don’t get when people make perceptions about celebs that they don’t know.

    Chris and Rhianna have issues. A man who loves you will never abuse you in that manner. A woman who will accept hat kind of abuse is co-dependent. She is accustomed to being treated in a manner that is indicative of her past troubles in her upbringing. This is obsessive. Not love.

    Love does not abuse, Love does not cheat, Love does not toy with anothers emotions. So many people use this word love and have no idea what it means.

  • Moreaces

    FURIOUZ STYLEZ

    1ST WHITNEY…NOW R. GIVENS

    –ARE WE GONNA HAVE THE GODMOTHER OF ASSWHOOPINS HERSELF TINA TURNER GIVE HER TWO CENTS IN?

    ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
    IF THAT WOULD CONVINCE EVEN ONE (1) WOMAN/YOUNG GIRL TO WALK AWAY FROM AN ABUSIVE RELATIONSHIP, THEN BY ALL MEANS,, BRING IT ON TINA,, BRING IT ON.

  • Moreaces

    4TH, MAYBE 5TH

  • Moreaces

    4TH, MAYBE 5TH, Yes, she looks alot like ri ri in that pic

  • pure honest

    @CIRCA -81
    Thats the biggest problem I see with this situation. Its so public that its out of hand. I am blessed to say that at the end of the day we made it through but I dont know if we were in their shoes what would have happened. When I got locked up and they put the cuffs on me my wife was in the street crying and was there to get me out because she understood it went too far. It took two to tango and she knew I was getting the short end of the stick. She was so sceared that I wouldnt talk to her ever again because she felt it was her fault. Because our families were saying the same things im sure Chris Browns and Rihanna fam is sayin. Even to this day my wife regrets being like that to me (just like im sure Rihanna feels right now) because its hard enough to be a black man now you have this on your record for a situation that got out of hand and she loves him. She must feel like she betrayed him in some ways. Its crazy situation and a whole bunch of emotions but they need to just pray. I can only imagine how pissed he is at times because he would love to sit and work it out but he is getting so much negitive advice because they are worried about his marketability and financial future. I wont lie it isnt easy somedays you feel resentful and upset and ask yourself why am i dealing with the person who almost ruined my life. But if you really love that person you . It took a long time for me to get a job and all that but God knew that I wasnt that person that my record showed and eventually an employer did too. So it can work out its just a mindframe. They must accept there issues before they take advice from anyone outside.

  • Ignorance is Contagious

    I saw that interview with Robyn and I cannot understand why Black people hate this woman so much. This woman was BEATEN by a man she married and Black people are concerned about whether or not she is a gold digger? and Black folks WONDER why women like Rihanna would go back to a man who beat her? Because our community has sent a LOUD AND CLEAR message that beating on our women is ok.

    I am HAPPY Robyn continues to bring to light the abuse our women go through. Keep doing you Robyn.

  • Ignorance is Contagious

    @ Pure honest

    The way you described your story is so disgusting and pitiful. You basically blamed your wife for your anger and then used the fact that it is already, “hard to be a black man” to justify why she would take back a man who beat her. Forcing Black women to take responsibility and bear the shame of YOUR actions.

    Domestic abuse is not a “private” issue, it is very public and we ALL have a RIGHT to weigh in. I am SICK AND TIRED of Black women having to take the pain and suffering of Black men abuse because its already, “hard to be a black man” PLEASE!

  • Agree to Disagree

    Rihanna(Robyn) looks like Robin givins a little.

  • Lynnett

    So if I’m yaw right, Mike is justified in hittin’ Robin, but Chris isn’t justified for hittin’ RiRi. Hmmm. Halle Berry says her hubbies did this and that to her and yaw believe that too. What makes one woman more believable than another? Why is one woman’s alleged abuse justified and the other is not. This is shameful.

  • http://www.madamethejourney.com Madame

    who’s left to speak on it??? … Obama, the Pope??? … EVERYBODY is putting their 2 cents in on this … lol

  • *Treasure*

    I dislike how many people are bashing Robin for her giving advice on the topic.

    Robin’s motives for marrying Mike are questionable. Mike is the one who contacted Robin after viewing her on her show The head of class. She could of had financial motives for dating and marrying him, but what was Mikes intentions? I certainly wouldn’t call it love. He abused Robin and tormented her. Mike was no innocent victim.

    This was over 20 years ago. Robin is an older woman now in her 40′s who can offer some advice. She is a spokeswoman for a National Hotline for abused women. I didn’t hear anyone attacking Oprah for her word of caution to Rhianna. It seems as if people are always so quick to victimize the abused, with judgments and harsh criticism.

  • *Treasure*

    Mike has led a destructive life and has abused many that come in his path. He is bipolar and a manic depressive, who needs to be medicated. He is an abusive tyrant who can’t control himself. He is vicious. He is no docile man. He loved to live Lavish and had no problems spending money of frivolous things. If Robin was such a gold digger, she would of had his children and stayed during all of Mikes torment.

    She didn’t start speaking out about this abuse until well over 15 years after the marriage dissolved. If she wanted to increase her financial gain from this marriage, she would of written a tell all book immediately when the story was fresh and new.

    She went through a terrible ordeal with this man. If her intentions for marrying him was to ensure her future, she paid heavily for her errors. I am sure she learned a valuable lesson as a result.

  • RJ

    @ *Treasure*

    bipolar and manic depression are the same thing… although, Mike has like bipolarX2 so its okay lol

  • sExY t>>>>

    aYE WHY SHE LOOK LIKE RIHANNA IN THIS PICTURE…AND BOTH OF THERE NAME IS ROBIN

  • we are living n the last days

    Say what you want to about domestic violence, but until we wake up and realize it is everybody’s problem! If you have family, childen and aunts and neices, you need not take this lightly it is dangerous and it is getting bigger, educate yourselfs on how to be the solution not the problem, open your minds, it is not about celebrities and the rich but the poor and unknown as well.

  • Knows_Abuse

    This woman was no more abused than Hitler was a poster child for “Goodness”. She just filed bankruptcy, is she going to blame Mike for that too? She needs to take a stand against “Child Abuse”…..but we know that won’t happen. I think Stephanie is the only one with any sense in that family, maybe……

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