“We wanted to hear some hip-hop,” she said. “So we went to WiP, because we know everyone there and we knew that’s the kind of music they had.”
In the club, Gutierrez bumped into a female friend she has in common with Brown – and landed two seats at the rapper’s table.
“Each of them had a bottle and they were sharing them with us,” she said of Brown’s entourage.
They were also buying bottles for other tables – a gesture that would soon prove the powder keg for the massive melee.
“They were all so nice,” Gutierrez said. “We were having such a good time. I was talking to my girlfriends, and I talked to Chris a little bit.”
“I was just there having a good time with my friends,” she said. “I wasn’t interested in any of the guys.”
“We were having so much fun,” she said – and everyone at the table was drunk and relaxed when the mood suddenly changed just before 4am.
Brown asked a waitress to send a bottle of the bubbly to Drake’s table, and she came back with a piece of paper that Brown looked at and threw onto the floor.
That turned out to be the taunting Rihanna-referencing note that read, “I am f***** the love of your life,” sources have said.
Drake and a group that included rapper Meek Mill and their bodyguards then strutted over to Brown’s table.
“They got up in his face and were giving him the middle finger. Chris told Drake to f*** off, and the next thing I heard was smashed glass and the bottles started flying at us,” Gutierrez said.
