Rihanna recently did an emotional interview with Oprah Winfrey, talking about what she experienced during the time Chris Brown's assault on her in 2009.

"It became a circus and I felt protective," she said in a preview for the show, which will air on "Oprah's Next Chapter" episode on Sunday, Aug. 19 at 9 p.m. on OWN.

Brown, however, thinks Rihanna should let go already.

In a report by the Herald Sun, Brown reportedly told friends that he doesn't think it's ''productive'' to keep talking about the incident.

"Chris is just confused about Rihanna's decision to bring up the past again and again," a source told Radar Online.

"Rihanna has previously given wide-ranging interviews about the beating to Diane Sawyer and several print magazines. Chris just doesn't think it's productive or relevant to rehash the events since essentially nothing new is being revealed in the interview Rihanna has done with Oprah.

"Chris doesn't begrudge Rihanna at all for talking about it but he thinks that in order for them to both move forward and not be defined by that one night, it would be better to stop bringing it up."

Rihanna, 24, ended her relationship with the "Yeah 3x" singer in February 2009 after he assaulted her. The beating happened in Los Angeles on the eve of the Grammy Awards. Pictures of Rihanna's badly beaten face created media frenzy.

"It was embarrassing, it was humiliating," Rihanna told Winfrey in the interview, excerpts of which were released on Thursday, according to the Chicago Tribune. "I lost my best friend. Everything I knew switched, switched in a night, and I couldn't control that.

"It was a weird, confusing space to be in. Because as angry as I was - as angry and hurt and betrayed - I just felt like he made that mistake because he needed help. And who's going to help him?

"Nobody's going to say he needs help. Everybody's going to say he's a monster, without looking at the source. And I was more concerned about him," she added.

Brown publicly apologized, but his career and public image took a dive. Brown's career has since recovered, and he won his first Grammy award earlier this year for the hit album "F.A.M.E."

Winfrey did the exclusive interview in Rihanna's Barbados home. In the promotion for Sunday's show, she said she had started with a fixed idea of Rihanna based on her provocative music videos and sexually charged lyrics, but her view quickly changed.

"I thought she was going to be kind of a badass, kind of a hard-edged rocker, pop woman. Nothing could have been further from the truth," Winfrey said.