adminIN more ways than one, it looks like a replica of how superstar singer Chris Brown punched his way to infamy and, by his own submission, even considered suicide after the shame of his attack.
There is a certain similarity between the shock images of pop star Rihanna, after the battering she received at the hands of her then boyfriend, Chris Brown, in 2009, and how Natalie Taruvinga looked, after being assaulted by her rogue boyfriend, Munyaradzi Chakauraya.
Natalie’s photos were published in this newspaper yesterday.
It follows the video, which shocked the country last week, in which Munya appeared to be exposing himself to Natalie’s two-year daughter.
Chris Brown was arrested and sentenced to serve five years’ probation and to spend more than 1 400 hours in “labour-oriented service” for assaulting his pop star girlfriend, Rihanna.
Later, Brown revealed he considered committing suicide.
Ahead of the release of his documentary, ‘Welcome To My Life,’ the R&B singer says their relationship was “like a fantasy” but he felt like a monster afterwards.
“I went from being on top of the world, number one songs and kind of being like America’s sweetheart to being public enemy number one,” he said.
“I wasn’t sleeping. I barely ate. I was just getting high.”
Chris Brown’s mother, Joyce Hawkins, also weighed in.
“That was the worst day of my life and probably of his life,” she said.
“I felt like I was going to lose my child.
“He grew up so fast, he didn’t really get to have a childhood or the teenage life of a normal person.”
In a 20/20 interview, Rihanna offered a graphic account of the fateful February 7, 2009, confrontation with Brown – including the terrifying blankness that seemed to come over him as he assaulted her.
She says all she kept thinking was, “When is it going to stop? When is it going to stop? He had no soul in his eyes.
“Just blank.
“He was clearly blacked-out. There was no person when I looked at him.”
The fight, she said, started when Brown received a text message from another woman while they were driving away from a Grammy Awards party.
“I caught him in a lie, and he wouldn’t tell the truth. And I wouldn’t drop it,” Rihanna said.
“I couldn’t take that he kept lying to me, and he couldn’t take that I wouldn’t drop it. It escalated into him being violent towards me. And it was ugly.
“I was battered, I was bleeding, I was swollen in my face.
“My next option was to get out of the car and walk, start walking in a gown and a bloody face,” she says.
“I didn’t have a plan. That whole night was not part of my plan.
“The more in love we became, the more dangerous we became for each other, equally dangerous.
“Because it was a bit of an obsession.”
She also addressed the complications she faced afterwards.
“Love doesn’t go away right away. He didn’t accept that very well. Obviously, he didn’t want us to be apart. But I had to make a decision for me.
“I don’t hate him at all.
“I actually love and care about him. I want him to do well, have a great career, have a great life and grow up. And just take this as something you had to go through to grow up and learn.” – H-Metro Reporter/People.
Mathew Masinge
Online Reporter