RIHANNA SLAMS REPORTER

PERFORM.....Chris Brown and Rihanna perform during the Z100 Jingle Ball in New York back in December 2008.

DON’T ASK Rihanna any questions about Chris Brown or be prepared to get your head chewed off. The Where Have You Been singer was clearly tired of queries pertaining to her former beau and it didn’t help that the Esquire UK journalist pressed on about the controversial song remixes with Brown.

"I didn't see how people could think it was a bad thing, you know?," Rihanna told the magazine. "In my mind, it was just music."

"Some people felt it sent the wrong message," the interviewer said.

"What was that? What message would that be?" Rihanna fired back angrily. In February, Rihanna - much to the disbelief of fans - collaborated with her abusive ex to remix her song Birthday Cake and his recent single Turn Up The Music.

"You'd gone back to someone who put you in the hospital," the reporter continued.

"Did I? Did I? Did I?" the Barbadian megastar shot back during the interview for the mag's July issue.

COVER.....Rihanna's cover pic for Esquire UK July issue.

"OK. In a completely professional environment. And on a complete professional note. I mean, if I went back to him (as a girlfriend), then that's a whole different discussion.

“And if I ever do, then that's something that y'all have to talk to me about when, if—that ever happens. Until then, look at it for what it is. I think a lot of people jumped to an assumption that was incorrect and they ended up looking stupid," she deduced.

Unfazed, the reporter continued to explain the rationale behind the questions.

"Maybe the thing is that as an artist your personal and private life are intertwined, and you've already played on this. The first song you put out after the beating incident was Love the Way You Lie, about domestic violence," the reporter explained.

A fed up Rihanna then replied: "I'm gonna look back on my life and say that I enjoyed it—and I lived it for me—and God. This is turning into a tacky interview. What do you really want to talk about? I'm not here to (talk) about messy sh*t."

“It upsets me that you keep asking the same kind of questions about stuff that’s trivial. What’s there to talk about? Are all your questions like that?"

The interview came to an abrupt end. (Agencies)