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Robin Givens Goes In, Oprah Apologizes!

By Deborah Bennett, Senior Editor November 16, 2009 1:00 pm

Robin Givens and Mike Tyson

Robin Givens took Oprah Winfrey to task on Friday for allowing her ex-husband Mike Tyson to joke about domestic abuse during a chat with him last month.

Givens, who is now a spokesperson for the National Domestic Violence Hotline, wrote a fiery letter to Winfrey after watching the Tyson special last month, reprimanding the talk show host for allowing the former boxer to rage on about his ex-wife and win laughs from the studio audience as he recalled brutal encounters with her.

Givens, who Tyson described as a “tough” and “mean” woman during his Oprah interview, told Oprah she was “really hurt” by the way Winfrey handled the chat with her ex.

Holding back tears, the actress said, “I wouldn’t be honest if there wasn’t a part of me that wanted you to go, when he said, ‘Oh, I’ve socked her before…’ ‘That’s not right.’ And it wasn’t right, it was painful. He can say whatever about me… but there are so many women like me, in my situation, that I just feel when there is this laughter, if you are in that situation out there, it kind of lightens it.”

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Take a look at Robin below:

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  • davettalashley
    davettalashley
    11-23-2009 3:28 pm

    Not a big Robin Givens fan, but she does have a point.

  • MrOSHE
    MrOSHE
    11-23-2009 11:00 am

    Let me be the one who says what so many men feel and scared to say and voice it loud. “Nothing a woman can do deserve to get hit” IS A LIE!!! I am so sick of women putting things in Domestic Violence that are not so. I am not trying to score cuchie points or have a lot of women flock to my page praising me. Today some women have this invisible fence of ignorance and it costing them unimaginable consequences.
    (1) If a woman is caught in bed with another man or woman.
    (2) She cleans out his account than run or for another lover.
    (3) Gives him a sexual transmitted disease because she was unfaithful.
    (4) Knew a child wasn’t his and lied for years than he finds out because he did a test.
    Than she needs her behind kicked. I don’t want to hear you should walk away because you are a woman or you a player who has 2-3 women extra on the side anyway. A man that is FAITHFUL, 1 WOMAN MAN, COME HOME AFTER WORK , LOVES HIS FAMILY AND PUT HIS WIFE BEFORE HIMSELF, A REAL MAN WILL KNOCK HER BEHIND OUT!!I am so sick of hearing that there is no reason, and women running around here not caring what they say to a man, act towards him, or WHAT THEY DO.. Can you see that the Domestic Violence rate is sky rocketing, because this is being spoon feed to women? No you can not do what ever you want, say what you want or act towards a man like you want you can’t. As former law enforcement officer I have handled cases that this ignorant was behind the actions. YES THERE ARE REAL CASES OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE. THERE ARE MEN AND WOMEN THAT CRUEL,THAT SHOULD BE LOCKED UP. Not for the 4 examples I gave. Its cases where I let the man or woman go once I investigated the case. Rihanna/ Chris Brown case she should have been charged to for assault also. Do I disagree with what he did, he should have stopped swinging when she stopped. Is that easy; NO. When your adriliean gets going its hard to turn off. Any one that has been in combat or in a chase knows this for a fact. Her belief she could swing and not get hit back caused her to act in away that was unimaginable to her. So let me finish about 99% of women will write how I am wrong and a real man will walk away. First of all, who gave women the right to decide what is a real man or not? This is a serious issue that will only get worse if we do not allow real debate to this issue. I am so sick of it Oprah/ Robin Givens I remember what she did to Tyson and how she used him her show head of the class went off the air 2 yrs before they married. Her mother and sister used that man he hit her once, I agree with him. Like I said everyone will probably write and say how this is and that and what they went through, but the fact is Domestic Violence is on the rise and people are disagree with there is nothing you can do to get hit. There are boundaries that should be addressed before he marries her or date her. If these boundaries are crossed it could turn violent. There is something you can do to deserve to get hit, you need to establish what it is..

  • mareah32
    mareah32
    11-23-2009 7:14 am

    Domestic violence is so serious and I thank you Robin and Oprah for acknowledging that!

  • CinnahminSwirl
    CinnahminSwirl
    11-22-2009 11:37 am

    Yeah I think Oprah should have apologized .. especially if she held such a hard stance with Chris Brown and removed BeBe Winans from her show .. I dont see Robin any differntly from BeBe’s ex wife both voiced their concerns and used Oprah’s own words that she will not condone domestic violence as a basis of their concerns to her ,but then she turns around and book 2 on her show

  • TASTYCHOCOLATE317
    TASTYCHOCOLATE317
    11-22-2009 10:24 am

    She just wants some damn attention.

  • tauyette
    tauyette
    11-22-2009 3:11 am

    @ Dopegurlmagic17 She was just in Tyler Perry’s movie A Family That Preys, I believe it was released sometime last year.

  • Nightowl358
    Nightowl358
    11-21-2009 5:37 pm

    Fake b***ch.

  • Dopegurlmagic17
    Dopegurlmagic17
    11-21-2009 12:00 pm

    ugh she is so damn thirsty and fake ugh…. im sure that what tyson was saying was da truth and she was da one prolly starting sh*t like riri… its Oprah’s damn show and if her audience wants to laugh they can sheez… she act like all they talked about was her, her unimportant a$$ she just wants attention. when was da last time she was in a movie again???

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