After more than a year since her ex Chris Brown pleaded guilty to assaulting her, Rihanna has confessed the incident helped her to end the three-year relationship.

"God has a crazy way of working, and sometimes when stuff happens you feel like, 'What did I do to deserve this? Why was it backfiring on me?'," the 22-year-old told UK Marie Claire.

The R&B star continued, "But I needed that wake-up call in my life. I needed a turning point, and that's what God was giving to me."

Recalling the moment she decided to end the relationship with Brown, the ‘Umbrella’ singer, who is now dating baseball star Matt Kemp, said: "I remember I was in New York at the Trump Hotel and I woke up and I just knew I was over it. It was a different day. I felt different. I didn't feel lonely. I felt like I wanted to get up and be in the world. That was a great, great feeling."

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