Rihanna Admits She ‘Still Loves’ Her ‘True Love’ Chris Brown: ‘My Stomach Drops’ When I See Him

During an intimate talk with Oprah, Rihanna opened up about where she stands with Chris Brown today, and admitted that she’ll ALWAYS love him, despite their messy pass.

Rihanna will never stop loving Chris Brown. The singer spoke to Oprah Winfrey for the Sept. 2 episode of Oprah’s SuperSoul Conversations, and got deep about her relationship with Chris. During the chat, she admitted that Chris is her “true love,” and said that she considers him the “love of [her] life.”

“We’ve been working on our friendship again and now we’re very, very close friends,” Rihanna explained. “We’ve built a trust again, and that’s it. We love each other and we probably always will. That’s not anything that we’re going to try to change. That’s not something you can shut off if you’ve ever been in love.”

However, RiRi confirmed that she and Chris are not seeing each other romantically again. “He’s in a relationship of his own,” she said (Chris welcomed a son with Ammika Harris in 2019). “I’m single. But we have maintained a very close friendship ever since the restraining order’s been dropped. We’ve just worked on it little by little. It has not been easy.”

Rihanna obtained a restraining order against Chris after he physically assaulted her before the Grammy Awards in 2009. The two had been dating for nearly two years at the time of the singer’s assault. Eventually, Rihanna agreed to drop the restraining order in Feb. 2011, and she and Chris got back together in 2012. They dated for several months before splitting for good in 2013, but fans have still held out hope for another reconciliation.

While that hasn’t happened, Rihanna revealed that she does still see Chris. She told Oprah that the rumors of them recently hanging out in St. Tropez were true. “We went to a mutual friend’s party on a yacht,” she said. “It’s awkward because I still love him. My stomach drops. I have to maintain this poker face and not let it get to the outer part of me. I have to maintain that and suppress it and interpret it and understand it and understand that it’s not going to go away. That is peaceful. If you don’t understand those feelings, you can make a lot of mistakes.”