Rihanna did not quite learn from her childhood experience of watching her mother and father in an abusive relationship. Or, did she?

“I always anticipated it happening. At night I wouldn’t want to sleep, because I was too afraid it would happen,” the singer said in the portion of her ABC News interview that aired on 20/20 tonight, referring to her father hitting her mother when she was a child growing up in Barbados.
“She never went to the hospital, but he broke her nose.,” Rihanna continued. “She would never go to the hospital…Domestic violence is not somebody that people want anbody to know, so she would just hide it in the house. I always said to myself, ‘I’m never going to date somebody like my dad, never.’
“I always said that.”

And yet she not only dated someone who hit her, she went back to him after the fact.
“Lying to yourself again, [I thought], What is he going through? I had to protect him,” she explained. “The whole world hates him now. His fans, his career, he lost me—I just need to let him know don’t do anything stupid.”

But Rihanna ended things shortly after she and Brown rendezvoused in Miami.

Mariah Carey claimed on Wednesday night’s “Larry King Live” that in the past, she’d endured certain kinds of abuse. Plus, she also spoke out about Rihanna, who was involved in a domestic dispute with Chris Brown.

“Abuse has several categories,” Carey told King, who went on to ask her if she’d ever been emotionally abused. “Emotionally, mentally… it’s scary,” she said.

“I think you just get into a situation and you feel locked in,” she continued. “For me, to really get out, it was difficult because there was a connection that was not only a marriage, but a business thing, where the person was in control of my life.”

When asked about Rihanna, Carey said, “I can’t imagine what she went through.”

The singer also discussed the possibility of having a baby with hubby Nick Cannon: “It would be the happiest thing in my life, but what I’m saying is right now with this movie ['Precious'] coming out, with the next few singles from the album and those things that I’m doing, I need to focus on that, because I cannot do the having-a-child thing halfway.”

Paris Hilton was spotted for the first time since tabloid reports surfaced claiming the socialite and her boyfriend Doug Reinhardt got into a physical argument on Halloween.

“It’s people making up silly stories,” she tells the photogs as she and Doug headed into BOA in Hollywood on Monday night.

On Monday, Paris’ rep gave ET this exclusive statement saying, “Doug had thrown Paris’ phone to a friend inside the car and it went out of the window by accident. Paris was annoyed with Doug because she was afraid that the paparazzi would get her phone. There was never a choking incident. The photographs show Doug asking Paris not to go back outside and to calm down.”

Gerard Butler has romanced many of Hollywood’s leading ladies — and that makes his latest rumored escapade far below his usual standards.

The hunky actor reportedly got cozy with none other than Lindsay Lohan on Sunday night at Sol Kerzner Mazagan Beach Resort launch in El Jadida, Morocco. A source told the U.K.’s Daily Mail that the two locked lips on the dance floor at the fete, then left together during the early hours of Monday morning.

Witnesses to the alleged tryst included Naomi Campbell, Naomi Watts and Liev Schreiber, who were among the hordes of celebrities who flocked to the opening. Also on hand: Guy Ritchie, who was photographed with Butler as he enjoyed being Madonna-free with an unidentified blond.

Country music star Taylor Swift is sharing her overwhelming excitement for hosting “Saturday Night Live,” saying the process makes her feel like she could “pass out.”

The 19-year-old tweeted the following message Monday on her Twitter account: “Starting the ‘SNL’ process. I kinda feel like I might have a heart attack or pass out in the pitch meeting. I’m that excited.”