The NFL is currently caught up in the domestic violence scandal involving Baltimore Ravens running back Ray Rice, who knocked his then-fiancee unconscious in an elevator. It isn’t necessarily new news because we heard about this in early 2014, but the video being released to the public brought it back into the spot light and drummed up even more outrage than initially.
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Interestingly enough, the video released a little over a week before Chris Brown’s album hits stores, which was leaked this week. Interesting because Brown was sentenced to five years of probation for assaulting his then-girlfriend, Rihanna, in 2009, is making the media tour and doing interviews to promote the album.
That opens him up to questions about Rice and domestic violence given his history, and Brown gave some advice for Rice when asked by MTV News’ Sway Calloway on Thursday.
“I think it’s all about the choices you make,” Brown said. “With me, I deal with a lot of anger issues from my past – not knowing how to express myself verbally and at the same time not knowing how to cope with my emotions and deal with them and understand what they are.
“So I think help is great,” he added. “I still talk to my therapist twice a week, and it helps me to…if I’m frustrated and I’m dealing with something, to vent and say what I’m going through so I can hear from an actual clinical person, ‘this is how you should react,’ or ‘it’s good to feel this way because feelings, emotions, and energy are supposed to come and go. It’s not supposed to stay there, you’re not supposed to keep it inside, because it’ll bottle up and you’ll become a monster.’
“For me, dealing with my anger issues and understanding myself and the life I’ve been through, where I’m headed and where I want to be has helped me focus on what’s really important and not F up,” he explained. “For anybody who’s going through that situation or anybody who’s dealing with it — it’s all about the choices. Every situation is different but it’s all about the choices you make and how you control your anger.”
Then Calloway asks if that is what Brown would tell Ray Rice or anybody else.
Brown responds: “To Ray, or anybody else — because I’m not better than the next man — I can just say I’ve been down that road. I deal with situations and I’ve made my mistakes too, but it’s all about how you push forward and how you control yourself.”
You can watch the interview below.
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