In her first interview since being assualted by then-boyfriend and fellow pop star Chris Brown, R&B singer Rihanna appeared Friday night on 20/20 to give her account of the ordeal and the aftermath to Diane Sawyer. An exclusive preview from the interview aired earlier on Good Morning America, but 20/20 hit the ratings jackpot.

ABC hit #1 in the A18-34 demo with 8.2 million viewers for its biggest numbers in that demo of the past 3 years, according to TVNewser. The number's were also the show's biggest audience in 7 months.

The segment begins biographically about the singer's youth in Barbados, but moves quickly onto the budding romance between Rihanna and Brown, two "supernovas" who met when she was 16 and he was 15. "He was definitely my first big love," she says in the interview. "The more in love we became, the more dangerous we became for each other. Equally as dangerous, because it was a bit of an obsession." (more...)