- Stars stay hush on Rihanna, Brown at NAACP Awards To no one's surprise, neither Rihanna or Chris Brown, who were each nominated at the 40th NAACP Image Awards, attended the ceremony Thursday night at the Shrine Auditorium. Brown and Rihanna canceled appearances at Sunday's Grammy Awards after news broke about Brown's involvement in an assault on a woman the previous night. Police have not identified the woman, but Brown, 19, was seen leaving a pre-Grammy gala Saturday with Rihanna, 20, before the suspected assault.
Few stars wanted to weigh in on the controversy. Sean Combs, a winner for his role in the TV miniseries A Raisin in the Sun, had a terse, "No comment," about the situation.
Others, like Sean Patrick Thomas, wanted to give Brown the benefit of the doubt. "I just know what you hear on TMZ or other garbage like that. I don't know the facts yet and I don't think anybody does."
Keshia Knight Pulliam, of Tyler Perry's House of Payne and The Cosby Show, said, "I don't condone violence against women in any form or fashion, but at the end of the day, you're innocent until proven guilty. None of us really know what those circumstances were because we weren't there."
http://www.usatoday.com/life/people/2009-02-13-naacp-awards_N.htm
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