Rihanna 'dumped' on Facebook

Chris Brown has officially ended his broken romance with Rihanna via Facebook.

The under-fire rap star reportedly changed his relationship status to 'single' on the networking site to bring down the curtain on the relationship following the vicious fight, reported to haven taken place on Sunday.

The 19-year-old also defended himself against allegations that he beat the Umbrella star, leaving her hospitalised with reported facial injuries before the Grammys.

Pushing the blame back in RiRi's court, Brown reportedly wrote: 'You'll begin to see her true colours. Believe it!'

Meanwhile, more of his nearest and dearest have stepped forward to defend his reputation.

The rapper's cousin Phylicia Thompson insists Rihanna would have had to 'provoke' him for him to strike out.

'Chris was not brought up to beat on a woman. So it had to be something to provoke him for Chris to do it', says Thompson.

The cousin also made an astonishing claim that any physical assault would be his version of 'having fun'.

'He wouldn't have done it just to be having fun...But what happens behind closed doors, nobody ever knows.'

Thompson insists her famous cousin is feeling 'down' about the 'incident'.

'He might feel down right now because his fans are looking down on him, like he's done something wrong,' she said.

'Of course, yes, he's done something wrong because he put his hands on her, but like I said, you don't know what happened. He had to be provoked to do it. Chris would never have done it.'

Via metro.co.uk