*Karreuche Tran’s up and down relationship with Chris Brown has been open for conversation among social media followers and casual observers for a hot minute now.
With the couple’s recent breakup, Tran opened up to spiritual life coach Iyanla Vanzant for an upcoming segment on the Oprah Winfrey Network (OWN). Vanzant sat down with theGrio.com to chat about her time with Tran, her motivation for interviewing the model-actress and whether or not Brown’s history of abuse was a factor toward the end of their relationship.
Hightlights are below:
theGrio: Iyanla, what made you want to do this exclusive interview with Karrueche Tran?
Iyanla: She asked. My understanding was that when the story broke, I think our producers just made a call to find out if she would be interested to having a healing conversation, and she said yes. Of course because it was a hot topic, everyone wants the exclusive, but she gave it to us. It was about having a healing conversation.
Without giving too much away, how much do you think Chris Brown being a father played a part in the demise in their relationship?
I don’t really know. What I learned in preparing for the interview was that there had been several acts of betrayal. See for me, this wasn’t even about Karrueche and Chris Brown. It was about hundreds and thousands of young women who make classic repetitive errors and unproductive unhealthy relationships with men. Karrueche represented those women for me. So I was really delighted to be able to hear her side of the story and talk to her about some broader possibilities.
Do you think there was emotional or mental abuse towards Karrueche?
In that particular relationship, betrayal of trust, violation of confidence played a factor. One of the things I asked her that was never really clear to me was, what was the nature of your relationship? What were the agreements in your relationship? It’s quite possible that Chris had one idea of what the relationship was and she had another. ‘Were y’all committed, were y’all monogamous, were y’all one-on-one?’ I really didn’t know. But if they were, if they had agreements and commitments in the relationship, and these agreements and commitments were violated… if trust was violated, if boundaries were violated, if promises were broken… yes, I do believe that is a form of emotional, psychological abuse.
Ultimately, what did Karrueche want to accomplish with this interview?
She wanted people to hear her voice. Her experience was that, as the result to her relationship with Chris and as a result of many of the things that were said by her and about her on social media, that people had the wrong idea of who she was. That she was putting up with bad behavior because she wanted an opportunity from him. That she was either unintelligent or irresponsible in going in and out of the relationship, and there were just some things that she wanted to say personally. Again, the blessing and the grace is because of who she was in a relationship with, people would listen. But there are hundreds of thousands of young women who go through that exact same scenario and never get to have their side of the story told. For me, it was more about a demonstration of what not to do and what to do and how to heal from it when you do it.
Get the rest of this interview at theGrio.
“Iyanla Exclusive: Karrueche Tran” will air at 8/7c Saturday (March 28) on OWN.
Watch a clip from Saturday’s show in which Karrueche breaks down, feeling betrayed by Chris Brown:
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