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Chris Brown: I Don't Remember Assault

Speaking out for first time since attacking Rihanna, singer says he's still shocked

By Evann Gastaldo,  Newser Staff

Posted Aug 31, 2009 11:11 AM CDT

(Newser) – Chris Brown spoke out for the first time since his assault of then-girlfriend Rihanna, but “spoke” is a relative term. “Wow” was the word he used most often to describe to CNN's Larry King the shock he still feels about the incident. “No, I don't” remember doing it, he says. “It's like, it's crazy to me. I'm like, wow. I just look at it like, wow, I'm in shock.”

“When I look at the police reports or I hear about the police reports, I don't know what to think,” he continues in the interview airing Wednesday. “It's just like, wow.” He also admits he’s still in love with Rihanna, and says he hates looking at the picture of her bruised face: “When I look at it now, it’s just like, wow, like, I can’t believe that actually happened.”

Chris Brown sits before the judge during his sentencing for assaulting his girlfriend Rihanna, at Los Angeles County Superior Court in Los Angeles, Aug. 25, 2009.
Chris Brown sits before the judge during his sentencing for assaulting his girlfriend Rihanna, at Los Angeles County Superior Court in Los Angeles, Aug. 25, 2009.   (AP Photo/Rick Loomis, Pool)
In this file photo, Rihanna arrives at the Clive Davis pre-Grammy party in Beverly Hills, Calif. on Feb. 7, 2009, left, and in this undated photo provided by TMZ, Rihanna is shown after she was beaten.
In this file photo, Rihanna arrives at the Clive Davis pre-Grammy party in Beverly Hills, Calif. on Feb. 7, 2009, left, and in this undated photo provided by TMZ, Rihanna is shown after she was beaten.   (AP Photo/Matt Sayles and TMZ)
In a Dec. 12, 2008 file photo singers Rihanna and Chris Brown perform at Madison Square Garden in New York.
In a Dec. 12, 2008 file photo singers Rihanna and Chris Brown perform at Madison Square Garden in New York.   (AP Photo/Evan Agostini)
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COMMENTS
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Kookey90
Sep 1, 2009 1:22 AM CDT
Here we go again, the news reporters got the headline wrong again" Chris Brown: I Don't Remember Assault' should actually read " Chris Brown: I WISH I Don't Remember Assault." Bottomline: What a Class A chump this guy is. If I could get my hands on him I'd smack him accross the side of the head and he'd go home crying to his mom.
justapirate
Aug 31, 2009 7:56 AM CDT
Wow... he didn't even seem remorseful. What a gentleman.
cognitivefilter
Aug 31, 2009 7:07 AM CDT
ridiculous. he couldn't even apologize.
 

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