From: www.ballerstatus.com

Rihanna is starting to open up about the Chris Brown assault from earlier this year. While she'll make her first televised interview with "Good Morning America" on Friday (November 6), she's also gave Glamour magazine some exclusives as well.

Rihanna was named Woman of the Year by the mag this week, and in the new issue's cover story talks about Breezy.

"It has taught me so much," Rihanna told the mag of the assault and its aftermath. "I went to sleep as Rihanna and woke up as Britney Spears. That was the level of media chaos that happened the next day. It was like, 'What, there are helicopters circling my house? There are 100 people in my cul-de-sac? What do you mean, I can't go back home?' "

She also discusses the widely distributed photo of herself, bruised and bloodied, which was taken shortly after the assault. RiRi said it being leak humiliated her.

"That is not a photo you would show to anybody," she says. "I felt completely taken advantage of ... like people were making it into a fun topic ... and it's my life. I was disappointed, especially when I found out the photo was [supposedly leaked by] two women."