Rihanna Cancels Grammy Performance, Chris Brown Investigated for Battery

Rihanna has canceled her achievement at tonight's Grammy Awards, admitting data are coarse on why the Barbadian accompanist had to cull out of the show. While producers clutter to ample her aperture on the advertisement (the latest rumors say Justin Timberlake or Al Green will ample in), the "Disturbia" singer's arranger issued this ambiguous statement: "Rihanna is well. Thank you for affair and support."

Rihanna and admirer Chris Brown were spotted (and photographed) calm at endure night's Clive Davis pre-Grammy bash, area Whitney Houston fabricated her acknowledgment to the stage. This afternoon, bottomless rumors advance that Rihanna had been in a car accident. By evening, chat bankrupt that Rihanna would not be accessory the Grammys, and anon thereafter the Los Angeles Badge Department accepted that Brown is beneath analysis for an declared calm array that happened about 12:30 a.m. Sunday morning.

According to People, Brown and an anonymous woman were complex in an altercation in a car that escalated afterwards Brown and the woman exited the car. "The woman suffered arresting injuries and articular Brown as her attacker, according to police," People reports. The name of the victim has not been released, but the LAPD did affirm they accustomed and responded to a 911 alarm about the incident.

Rihanna is up for three awards at this year's Grammys, including Best Dance Recording, and Brown has two nominations. When told about the cancellations on the red carpet, Snoop Dogg's wife Shante Broadus said her bulletin to Brown was "We adulation you and get better." David Banner told Rolling Stone, "One bearings doesn't ascertain a man and I absolutely wish American to stop accomplishing that to people. As humans, none of us is perfect."

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