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By Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 5:19 PM on 05th November 2009

But as the Bajan singer, 21, breaks her silence on the violent altercation, she admits she was wrong to go back to him and feels 'embarrassed' she ever loved a man who could raise his hand to her.

In an interview with ABC's Good Morning America, Rihanna's voice quivers with emotion as she recalls the horrific incident in the early hours of February 8.

'That's embarrassing - that that is the type of person I fell in love with, so far in love, so unconditionally that I went back.'

In a message of defiance to abuse victims who blame themselves, she said: 'I am strong. This happened to me. I didn't cause this, I didn't do it. This happened to me and it could happen to anybody.'