As the singer, 27, gears up and her forthcoming eighth album, she's looking back on her decade in the spotlight and on her love life - including her former relationship with Chris Brown - for Vanity Fair's November cover story .
"I don't hate him," Rihanna said of Brown, 26.
"I will care about him until the day I die.
We're not friends, but it's not like we're enemies.
We don't have much of a relationship now."
Rihanna's comments come nearly seven years after Brown assaulted her before the Grammy Awards in February 2009.
"I was that girl," Rihanna said of their brief reconciliation.
"That girl who felt that as much pain as this relationship is, maybe some people are built stronger than others."
Rihanna admitted to thinking she could change Brown.