Rihanna, Chris Brown Relationship Officially Confirmed: Singer Says 'He's Giving And Loving' In Their Relationship, Couple Starting New Chapter

Rihanna talks about her new relationship with Chris Brown in a new interview with "Rollingstone" magazine and admits that it wasn't her job to rehabilitate him during the 2009 domestic violence episode and that she had to give him space for him to fix himself, because she had to fix herself.

Here are excerpts from the interview:

When she was asked if she could talk about how she felt about Chris brown she said, "I just felt like, why bother? Nobody else is going through it. Nobody would understand."

The singer said she wasn't made at Brown, but she was hurt and wanted him to hurt as well by punishing him, "I wanted him to know what it felt like to lose me. To feel the consequences of that. So when that (stuff) came back it hit me like a ton of bricks. Like, God, you've got to be kidding right now. But I got real with myself, and I just couldn't bury the way I felt."

The singer didn't care what people thought about her reuniting with Brown and decided to forgive him and ignore the haters, "I decided it was more important for me to be happy, and I wasn't going to let anybody's opinion get in the way of that. Even if it's a mistake, it's my mistake. After being tormented for so many years, being angry and dark, I'd rather just live my truth and take the backlash. I can handle it," she added, "When you add up the pieces from the outside, it's not the cutest puzzle in the world. You see us walking somewhere, driving somewhere, in the studio, in the club, and you think you know. But it's different now. We don't have those types of arguments anymore. We talk about (stuff). We value each other. We know exactly what we have now, and we don't want to lose that."

Rihanna insists that Brown is a changed man and not the "monster" everyone perceives him to be, "I know it comes off like that. And it doesn't help. For a long time he was really angry, and he felt like he couldn't get away from it, no matter what he did. But there's so many reasons why I ever reconsidered having him in my life. He's not the monster everybody thinks. He's a good person. He has a fantastic heart. He's giving and loving. And he's fun to be around. That's what I love about him - he always makes me laugh. All I want to do is laugh, really - and I do that with him," she added, "Of course everybody has their opinion about him, because of what he's done. That will always be there. But he made a mistake, and he's paid his dues. He's paid so much. And I know that's not a place he would ever want to go back to. And sometimes people need support and encouragement, instead of ridicule and criticism and bashing."

Going forward with Brown, the singer looks at the relationship in a new light, "Listen, I'll tell you right now: I don't have to take it. If he gives me that again, here's what I give him: nothing. I just walk away. He doesn't have that luxury of (expletive) up again. That's just not an option. I can't say that nothing else will go wrong. But I'm pretty solid in knowing that he's disgusted by that. And I wouldn't have gone this far if I ever thought that was a possibility."