Rihanna is back on the cover of Rollingstone magazine, which she covered for the first time back in 2011. In the cover story which was done at her new Pacific Palisades mansion, RiRi has opened up about her re-kindled relationship with Chris Brown and why she decided to make peace with him after all she went through.

“I decided it was more important for me to be happy. I wasn’t going to let anybody’s opinion get in the way of that. Even if it’s a mistake, it’s my mistake. After being tormented for so many years, being angry and dark, I’d rather just live my truth and take the backlash. I can handle it.”

“When you add up the pieces from the outside, it’s not the cutest puzzle in the world. You see us walking somewhere, driving somewhere, in the studio, in the club, and you think you know. But it’s different now. We don’t have those types of arguments anymore. We talk about shit. We value each other. We know exactly what we have now, and we don’t want to lose that. He doesn’t have the luxury of fucking up again. That’s just not an option. I can’t say that nothing else will ever go wrong. But I’m pretty solid in the knowing that he’s disgusted by that. And I wouldn’t have gone this far if I ever thought that was a possibility.”

After the jump, a couple of scans from the Terry Richardson-shot photo spread.

UPDATE: Now with behind the scenes footage from the shoot. Go here for all photos from shoot.