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Karrueche Tran Confirms "Battling" Rihanna For Chris Brown, Breakup With R&B Star

Last week, we received word that  Karrueche Tran had broken up with Chris Brown after he posted a racy, candid photo of her online without her knowledge. Today, a preview of Karrueche’s appearance on the BET talk show Just Keke seems to confirm that Karrueche and Chris are done.  Karrueche Tran Talks Chris Brown Breakup Talking with host Keke Palmer about her relationship with Brown (Because, really…what else would she talk about?), Karrueche fought back tears while describing the ups and downs of their time together, particularly her very public feud with Rihanna. “I’ve never dated a celebrity before, so it was very new to me, paparazzi and all that,” said Tran. “Even the situation with Rihanna. The reason people tuned into this so much is because it’s relatable. It’s the case of the ex. We all go through it.” “However, In this case my boyfriend is a celebrity who’s ex-girlfriend is even bigger. So not only am I fighting a battle with her, I’m fighting a battle with her 14 million fans. So imagine how that feels for me.” Indeed, the feud between Breezy’s exes turned ugly at times, with Rihanna mocking Karrueche on Twitter to the delight of her many followers. Toward the end of the clip, Karrueche tears up and begins talking about her relationship with Chris in the past tense. Asked what was the most difficult part of dating Brown, Tran replies, “The heartbreak. Because it was a real situation. It was a real life situation.” Karrueche’s full interview is scheduled to air on Thursday. Karrueche Tran: Chris Brown Plaything! 1. Karrueche Tran, Chris Brown Selfie Karrueche Tran and Chris Brown team up on the most disgusting selfie of all time.

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Student Never Takes Out Contacts, Goes Blind After Amoebas Eat Eyeballs

A student who reportedly kept a pair of contact lenses in her eyes for six months straight is now blind after amoebas devoured her eyeballs. The tiny single-cell organisms slowly ate away at Taiwanese undergraduate Lian Kao’s sight because she didn’t take out and clean the contacts. Not even once during that time. According to a warning issued by doctors, this is a particularly severe example, but illustrates the importance of proper hygiene use with contact lenses. Ya think?! Amoebas Eating Eyeballs: This Actually Happened! 1. Contact Lenses Are Great, But … They’re a marvelous invention, but without proper use, can leave one vulnerable to eye diseases. Such as … The director of ophthalmology at Taipei’s Wan Fang Hospital, Wu Jian-liang, said contacts users are a “high risk group that can easily be exposed to eye diseases.” How so, you ask? Short answer: Amoebas . Longer answer: “A shortage of oxygen can destroy the surface of the epithelial tissue, creating tiny wounds into which the bacteria can easily infect,” he explains. Once that process starts, he says, it continues rapidly and disastrously, ” spreading to the rest of the eye and providing a perfect breeding ground.” “The girl should have thrown the contact lenses away after a month but instead she overused them and has now permanently damaged her corneas.” Jian-liang said that she had been diagnosed with acanthamoeba keratitis, which is more common in the summer than other seasons, yet typically rare. The condition, experts say, can build up over several years, but by the time it has caused permanently red, irritated eyes, it may be too late to reverse. Check out the gallery above for a visual aid … if you can stomach it. Strange But True News Hall of Fame 1. Drunk Man Tries to Urinate Out of Cop Car Window Devin Langford, a drunk man in custody, tried to urinate out of the rear passenger side window of a moving police car because he was drunk. It did not go as planned.

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Student Never Takes Out Contacts, Goes Blind After Amoebas Eat Eyeballs