Sherri Shepherd Defends Chris Brown on The View, Calls Singer a "Role Model"
by Free Britney at .Sherri Shepherd is on Team Breezy.
The View host has been vocal in defense of Chris Brown before, so it's no surprise that she stood up for the star in the wake of this week's Grammy lovefest backlash.
All Brown did was show up at the award show, perform and win. No controversy at all. Yet his mere presence at the event after his 2009 attack on Rihanna upset many.
While Shepherd criticized female fans who Tweet about how they'd let Chris beat them all night (among other things), Shepherd defended Brown from criticism.
He may even be a role model, she says. Why?
"There may be a child in a situation of going through abuse that Chris Brown has gone through. His mother was abused right in front of his very eyes six years before this happened to Rihanna. He used to wet his pants from the fear," Shepherd says.
"He was a victim! He became an offender. He did what the courts told him to do. He went to 52 weeks, a year of domestic prevention counseling."
That's all true, and she makes a strong case. But on the flip side, critics will point to the (perceived) utter lack of responsibility Brown has taken for his actions.
Behind-the-scenes blowups, arrogance and a lack of remorse (real or otherwise) contribute to the lack of forgiveness in people's eyes. Not heartlessness.
What do you think? Is Chris Brown a role model?
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Comments (57 Total)
role model yeah right,she got to be kidding.
No way!!!!! Roll model may a@@!!! You are slime if you hit a woman!! No second chances with this one!
SHERRI NEVER SAID SHE CONDONED HIM HITTING RIHANNA! But lets be honest, 3 years is a long time to hold a grudge when YOU weren't the one that got hit on. They had a physical altercation... she hit him and he hit back, it happenes. But anybody with common sense knows that Rihanna forgave chris 2 years ago. Hell hes been piping her since they dropped the restraining order in early 2011! We are spending so much time waiting for him to apologize to us the public that we forget whose forgiveness he really needs.... God's, Rihanna's and his own. Get off that mans Nuts and move the fuck forward for your own good.
Any man that beats on a woman deserves no kind of respect or break of any kind. I don't care if he is black or white. He should be put away.Probably using drugs(BROWN)
Dawn George.For Sherri from The View to condone what Chris did to Rihanna is a shocker.How dare she stick up for a wife beater.His temper is completely out of control.I know that once a wife beater always a wife beater.He should not get a second chance to hurt or maybe even kill another woman.And to give this sicko an Award was a slap in the face to all woman.Sherri is a joke on The View.Get rid of this person that drools after every male actor that comes on the show.She is a disgrace.If she's a christian I'm Mother Theresa.