Country music star Miranda Lambert is backing down about Chris Brown on the Grammy Awards.
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If singer Chris Brown duets with Rihanna on this year's Grammy Awards, he'll likely hear about it from country music award-winner Miranda Lambert, reports radaronline.com.
Brown, 23, who was convicted of assaulting former girlfriend Rihanna right before the 2009 Grammy Awards, performed twice on the 2012 show. A move that sparked protests from Lambert, 29, who is married to Oklahoma's country music star and "The Voice" coach Blake Shelton, and others.
And she hasn't changed her mind about the situation, according to an interview in the February issue of Redbook magazine on stands next week. Both she and Brown are nominated for Grammys this year.
"I didn't feel right about not saying something," Lambert tells the magazine. "The loudmouth that I am, I say what I think. I wanted everyone to know that I don't agree with the message it's sending to young women. It's not okay. At all. To be celebrated after doing something like that.
“I don't think it's right, I never will, and I will stand by what I said till the day that I die."
Last year, she tweeted: "Not cool that we act like that didn't happen. He needs to listen to Gunpowder and lead and be put back in his place. Not at the Grammys."
"Gunpowder" was Lambert's 2007 hit "Gunpowder and Lead," which tells the story of a woman planning to kill her abusive husband when he gets out of jail.
In 2009, Brown was sentenced to five months of probation, six months of community labor and ordered to stay 50 yards away from Rihanna except at music events. The Barbadian singer reunited with Brown earlier last year and has been tweeting photos of the couple together. They have also collaborated on songs.
But she tells the magazine she isn't feuding with Brown.
"There was no feud. I'm right, they're wrong!"
Also in the Redbook interview, Lambert she talks about feeling insecure, spending time apart from her husband and preserving their private life.
On feeling insecure:
"I'm insecure about tons of things!
"I cry onstage once a week, singing 'The House That Built Me,' and I always tell the crowd, 'Don't tell anyone I was cryin'!' Or 'Over You,' when Blake and I had all that loss in our lives. It was really hard to get up there after we had been to three funerals.
"(Blake's) dad died, my childhood best friend passed away, and then my childhood dog, all in two weeks. I went back onstage, and I wasn't ready, but the crowd just embraced me. I was like, 'Okay, I'm really real. Like, all of this tough-girl image? My walls are down and all these people can see it.' But it was a good moment for me.
"I just laid it out there, like, 'I'm normal, I'm a girl, I have PMS, and I get emotional, and I'm sad sometimes, and that's it.' I feel like I got over the hump of trying to be like, 'I have a chip on my shoulder, I'm strong all the time,' you know? Because no one is."
Spending time apart from her husband:
"I love it. This time I hadn't seen him in 11 days, and he was just so happy when I got here, it was like (she makes an angels-singing voice) 'Ahh, you're here.' When I go to The Voice set and everyone says, 'Blake's been talking about you so much,' it just makes me feel special, you know?
And on trying to keep their private life:
"I'm more protective. He's the sweetest guy.
"Like, he will talk to anyone, sign anything, take a picture with everyone. And if I don't stop it at some point, it ruins our whole night. I have to be the bad guy.
"The people are like, 'Oh, God, don't mess with her, she'll murder people.'"
On Feb. 17, 2012, Lambert protested Brown's actions at a concert. here's the video.
