OWN’s Rihanna
Interview Sets Viewership Record
In an amazing breaking entertainment
news, The Oprah Winfrey Network (OWN) reportedly recorded its second
highest-rating episode when it featured Barbados-born pop royalty Rihanna in
one of its Oprah’s
Next Chapter telecast.
The said airing was reported to have attracted some 2.5
million viewers, the second-highest in the network’s history. Incidentally, the
highest-rating episode of the show featured Whitney Houston’s wake, which
fetched some 3.5 million viewers.
Additionally, the Rihanna sit-down interview got a 2.4 rating
among women in the 25-54 age group, while it snagged a 2.5 rating with women in
the 18-49 age bracket. The said figures showed that female celebrity sit-downs
tend to appeal naturally to the show’s female viewers.
For the said telecast, Winfrey had to fly in to Rihanna’s
native Barbados and conduct the hour-long interview.
Tearful Rihanna
Bared All
 |
| Rihanna cries during the interview |
During
the interview, the pop diva gave a no-holds-barred tell-all interview,
particularly talking of her troubled relationship with hip-hop and RnB royalty
Chris Brown.
Specifically,
Rihanna told Oprah when asked how her relationship with Brown is going some
three years following their much-publicized scuffle, that she still maintains
close friendship with her former lover.
“We’re
very, very close friends. We built a trust again and that’s it. We love each
other and we probably always will,” Rihanna told Oprah.
It could
be remembered that Chris brutally attacked and hurt Rihanna in their home way
back three years ago. The pop diva was photographed with some serious bruises,
particularly in her face.
Since
then, the two we’re, in Rihanna’s words, “just friends,” and are not living
together.
The
clincher of the interview was when Rihanna said straight to Oprah that she
thinks Chris is “the love of my life.”
Mixed Reactions
Expectedly,
the tearful admission generated different reactions from viewers.
Some
we’re completely sympathetic of the pop singer, saying that she probably just
loved Chris that much, enough to forgive him for what he did. However, others
were irked, even distraught, on Rihanna’s statements.
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