The ladies of The View are live from Las Vegas this week. Rihanna sat down with the ladies for a chit chat yesterday (6/23). Pardon me while I stifle a yawn here… the ladies asked Rihanna about the kid, you know, what’s his name. And for the umpteenth time Rihanna repeated the words that Tina (Chris’ manager) wrote for her.

She said, “We hang out a lot. We’re very close. He’s an amazing person but we are not dating. We’re very close friends, though. Very, very close.” Yawnnnn.

Co-host Whoopi Goldberg asked Rihanna what’s the difference between a very, very good friend and the goofy kid she hangs with? And Rihanna answered, “There’s a very big difference. I think you know!”

No, we don’t know. Actually, we stopped caring a long time ago. We’re tired of this whole Rihanna/Chris Brown fiasco and we know Tina is somewhere laughing her ass off. Meanwhile, Chris’ mom, Joyce Hawkins, is telling friends that CB and Rihanna are in fact a couple.

“Rihanna is the sexiest and sweetest girl Chris has ever dated,” an E! News spy overheard Joyce cooing to a friend over the weekend. Does anyone else have a problem with a mother calling her son’s girlfriend sexy?