Dangerous love

Rihanna on Friday described the horror she felt as her ex-boyfriend Chris Brown was biting and punching her during a violent argument in February, saying she saw “no soul in his eyes.”

“There was no person when I looked at him,” the 21-year-old singer recalled during the second installment of an interview airing on ABC’s “Good Morning America.” “He had no soul in his eyes. Just blank.”

Brown was arrested Feb. 8, hours after he was accused of beating Rihanna after the two argued over another woman. He later pleaded guilty to felony assault.

In the interview, Rihanna, who is no longer with Brown, described him as “definitely my first big love.” She said their relationship was intense.

“The more in love we became, the more dangerous we became for each other— equally as dangerous,” she said. “It was a bit of an obsession almost.”

The attack occurred in Los Angeles’ Hancock Park neighborhood as Brown drove a rented sports car. She said it was triggered when she saw a text message on his phone from another woman and confronted him about it. She said he lied about it and “I wouldn’t drop it.”

Final cut

R&B singer Usher’s divorce from his wife is final, according to court documents. Fulton County Superior Court Judge Bensonetta Tipton Lane issued a final decree in the divorce case Wednesday.

Usher, 31, whose real name is Usher Raymond IV, filed for divorce from Tameka Raymond on June 12. He said the couple had been separated since July 2008 and claimed there was “no reasonable hope of reconciliation” and the marriage was “irretrievably broken.”

Tameka Raymond disputed Usher’s claim that the couple had been separated since July 2008. She said in court documents filed June 29 that she “had every reason to believe her marriage was intact” and that the two were “intimately together as husband and wife as recently as June 6.”

Feeling fine

Elton John has been released from a London hospital after being treated for flu and an E. coli bacterial infection.

The singer’s spokesman Gary Farrow says John was at home Friday and was feeling fine. He left the hospital early Thursday.

He says John planned to resume his suspended tour and would play scheduled U. S. dates with Billy Joel starting in Oakland, Calif., on Nov. 14.

Celebrity birthdays

Sunday: Patti Page is 82. Bonnie Raitt is 60. Jessica Lowndes is 21.

Monday: Lou Ferrigno is 58. Pepa is 40. Nikki Blonsky is 21.

Tuesday:Mackenzie Phillips is

50. Ellen Pompeo is 40. Josh Peck is 23.

Wednesday: Jonathan Winters is 84. Leonardo DiCaprio is 35.

Thursday: Booker T. Jones is 65. Al Michaels is 65. Neil Young is 64.

Friday:Whoopi Goldberg is 54. Jimmy Kimmel is 42.

Next Saturday: Buckwheat Zydeco is 62. Shyheim is 32.