This is why I don’t get my news from blogs. There was a report that pop singer Rihanna reached out to her former lover Chris Brown after his fake breakdown on the 2010 BET Awards. Brown was convicted of beating Rihanna the day of the GRAMMY Awards in early February 2009.

Someone in Chris Brown’s camp put out the fake rumor that Rihanna called the convicted woman beater to console him. But Rihanna’s rep calls the report a bunch of lies.

We were all a little shocked when we heard that pop star Rihanna was back in touch with her abusive ex-boyfriend Chris Brown but it appears that the news was a little too weird to be true.

According to Gossip Cop, the “Rude Boy” singer’s rep calls the claims that she is talking with Chris “absolutely not true.” Maybe it was all just wishful thinking on Chris’s part.

The rumor, initially started by a “source” in Heat magazine, claimed that the 22-year-old singer was touched by Chris’s tearful tribute to Michael Jackson at the BET Awards and had begun text messaging him. The source even went to add that Rihanna wanted to have a “face-to-face meeting” with the “Forever” singer. Of course, that would be nearly impossible since Chris has been ordered to stay at least 100 yards away from Rihanna during his five years of probation. Read More…