Dawn Richard has been living her life in the public eye since “Making the Band” as part of Danity Kane. After the group’s very public split over the last few months, Richard knows what it’s like to be in the media spotlight. While she said she hasn’t spoken to either Chris Brown or Rihanna since their alleged altercation before the Grammy Awards — “I’ve seen then a couple times before all this stuff, but I don’t know them like that,” she said — she is “praying for both of them.

“I think they’re both great artists,” she said. “It’s a shame and I think it’s their business and it sucks that it has to be out there. [The media attention is] like a microscope — everybody’s in your stuff. It’s their business and whatever they choose to do with it, I wish them luck. It’s not my business.”

Ne-Yo, who said he’s spoken with Rihanna, and Bow Wow recently spoke with MTV News about the situation.

Even with all of Richard’s experience of being scrutinized by the public, she says she can’t offer Brown and Rihanna much advice.

“I can’t give them anything ’cause I went through my thing and it went all wrong,” she said. “You just pray. I do wish them luck. I wish that everybody would back off and let them deal with it the way they deal with it. I can’t give advice. I can say positivity is the best thing you can do right now. Just stay positive and just surround yourself with people who are positive.”

Source: MTV