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As Ray Rice's domestic violence struggle rages on, Chris Brown—who's also very familiar with beating up his girlfriend—has offered up some advice to the former Baltimore Ravens running back.
“I think it’s all about the choices you make,” Brown told MTV on Thursday. “With me, I deal with a lot of anger issues from my past— not knowing how to express myself verbally and at the same time not knowing how to cope with my emotions and deal with them and understand what they are.”
The singer, who assaulted Rihanna in 2009 and was sentenced to five years probation, has been in and out of rehab and faced plenty of additional run-ins with the law. But he said he now talks to a therapist twice a week.
“It’s all about the choices. Every situation is different but it’s all about the choices you make and how you control your anger," said Brown. "To Ray, or anybody else—because I’m not better than the next man—I can just say I’ve been down that road. I deal with situations and I’ve made my mistakes too, but it’s all about how you push forward and how you control yourself.”