Joan Rivers, Rihanna Tweet About Slapping Each Other

Joan Rivers said her peace in 140 characters on Twitter about Rihanna’s interview with Oprah, more specifically the part about still loving Chris Brown.

Here’s what the “Man Down” singer told Oprah,

“{We are} not seeing each other.” But the two have been “working on our friendship again, and now we’re very, very close friends. We built up a trust again. And that’s it. We love each other and we probably always will.”

Here’s Joan’s reaction,

“Rihanna confessed to Oprah Winfrey that she still loves Chris Brown. Idiot! Now it’s MY turn to slap her.”

Initially the pop star’s response was timid,

“@Joan_Rivers wow u really do get slow when you’re old huh?”

The Navy wasn’t as timid,

“@Joan_Rivers Slow down old lady. If you tried to slap anyone your arm would probably turn to dust.”

“@Joan_Rivers @Rihanna U just mad! U can’t find a man ur p*ssy need plastic surgery u have no p*ssy wall they crumbled like the wall of china”

“@Joan_Rivers B*tch please, you need someone to slap your face into shape.”

It appears Rihanna was inspired by the loyalty of her Navy fans and decided to throw in her own jab.

“Slap on some diapers”

Luckily for us all that’s the end of this mini beef and we can all move on to other things like whether Chris Brown, Drake and Rihanna will collide at the MTV VMAs!

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