MTV got some excerpts from Chris Brown’s interview with the latest issue of People magazine. Check out part of the article below:
Brown called the order “a little harsh” but thought his overall punishment — 180 days of labor work, including trash pickup and graffiti removal; 52 weeks of counseling; and probation — was fair.
“The law is the law,” Brown told the magazine. “I am relieved to put everything behind me. [The stay-away order] might have been a little harsh. [Rihanna] knows me, and I know her more than anybody. It’s hard.”
Brown, 20, said out of fairness to Rihanna, he wouldn’t elaborate on specifics of that night. But he characterized the couple’s relationship as “great” prior to the incident. Rihanna, 21, the magazine reports, declined a request to comment on the story.
“[Our relationship] was very fun and energetic,” Brown said of his time with Rihanna. “We did almost everything together, whether it was going to the movies or me trying to teach her how to skateboard. We met when I was about 15. I had more of a connection with her than anybody in the industry.”
Brown told People that he never fell out of love with Rihanna and that he was grateful she took him back in March when the two reunited at Diddy’s Miami mansion. The singer admitted it was difficult to carry on the relationship when the court ordered the two to separate; a temporary restraining order was granted in Rihanna’s favor before the more stringent stay-away order. Brown also said he was worried Rihanna would lose fans over staying with him.
Alongside the Q&A, the singer is featured in photos with his mother, Joyce Hawkins. Brown’s mother was the victim of domestic abuse at the hands of the singer’s onetime stepfather. Brown has been outspoken against his mother’s former husband and said his own physical attack against Rihanna did not help him understand an abuser’s mind-set.
“Not at all,” Brown explained. “I feel like he enjoyed it.”
Since the incident, a number of songs by Brown have leaked online that seem to address the situation, particularly “Changed Man,” an emotional track in which the singer is apologizing at will throughout. In the interview, Brown confirmed that he wrote the song immediately after the attack as he was apologizing to Rihanna. He said he sent the song to her to show he understood his actions.
HARSH!!! give me a break any normal person would have been in jail after doing this got off easy like all celebs do B.S
no he would not be in jail. there are so many cases where this same incident took place and no one is in jail. they are out and some are back together. Chris has said that he is sorry and my prayer is that people would find something else to do with their live beside worrying about him. if today your sins are expose how would you feel and how would you be able to handle your name all over television people are talking about you. even though you know what happen and you are sorry. you have made peace even with the person that it happen with and you want to move on but people will not let you live it down. they have their foot on your neck and want your career to be destroy saying all kind of thing to mess up your character. What would you do and how would you handle it. Until you have sit in that seat you don’t know. but everybody got there day coming. How can we be spared, by restoring our brother. So when that day come we will not have to look back on this day and who we did not forgive but tried to destroy their character. I must say you will reap what you sow.