The network chose Tiffany Green, a Nicki Minaj fan to present the award, but due to conflicting winners' name, the fan announced Chris Brown as the winner and then Rihanna before Drake came out on stage to accept the award on behalf of RiRi.
At the end of the show Kevin Hart announced that the actual winner of the award was Chris Brown. BET president Stephen Hill took to Twitter to apologise for the mix-up, which involved two stars which famously broke up after Chris Brown violent assaulted Rihanna in 2009.
Hill, pictured here with J. Cole at the BET Nominations, tweeted yesterday: "That BET Awards Viewer's Choice mix-up was due to human error. And I was the human that made that error. I apologize to ALL affected."
After the mix-up Green was left in tears because of the error which made her a trending topic worldwide.
She tweeted: "Bawling backstage. They totally f***ed me up. The tablet f***in said CHRIS BROWN....the TELEPROMPTER said Rihanna. What the F***?????? Goin home..... "
Pulling herself together Green tweeted that BET had caused the error on purpose. "So BET did that on purpose. Oh. I feel better. Look b***hes....Im not SLOW. lol They did the s*** on PURPOSE. F***ed up right? *shrug* smh. Everyone's comin up to me tellin me how good I did under those f***ed up circumstances. Welp. Im trendin worldwide. I gives no f*** what yall THINK happened. Cuz guess what? Im HERE. You Not. :)," she wrote.