Pop Star Confessions: Chris Brown faces 'Larry King Live'

  Chris Brown during his interview with Larry King on CNN.

In this edition of Personalities in Brief, a bombshell from Chris Brown’s first major interview sets all media lines on fire.  CNN’s Larry King gets the beleagured pop star’s side of the story, who says he doesn’t remember assaulting ex-girlfriend Rihanna, while admitting he still “loves her.”

Finally, Chris Brown attempted to set the record straight on the incident that derailed his career and fueled a firestorm of judicial and media controversy. In his first interview since the February 8th incident where Brown was charged with assaulting former girlfriend, pop star Rihanna, the 20-year-old singer admitted to Larry King he has no recollection of the attack.

Brown, who was sentenced to five years of probation, faced King in a taped interview set to air Wednesday, September 2nd. CNN.com currently feature an excerpt of the interview, which highlighted Brown stating he remains in “shock” over the entire episode.

"I gotta just look at it like, 'Wow,' I'm in shock," Brown said when questioned about the assault. "First of all, it's not who I am as a person. And that's not who I promised everyone of being. When I look at the police reports or I hear the police reports, I don't know what to think."

King questioned, "Do you remember doing it?"

"No," Brown answered.

"You don't remember doing it?" King inquired further.

Brown’s mother Joyce Hawkins and attorney Mark Geragos (pictured above) also appeared during the hour-long interview.

"He came and he actually spoke to me about what happened," Hawkins commented on her reaction when she found about the incident. "And I was totally shocked, totally upset about the situation.”

Hawkins went on to tell King that her son never revealed such violent behavior before,

"Chris has never ever been a violent person... even in high school," she added.

"Never?" King commented.

"Never." Hawkins said.

Sentenced on August 25th, Brown must complete five years probation, 180 days of community labor and 52 weeks of domestic violence counseling for assaulting Rihanna (pictured below) He has also been order to not have any contact with her for the entire five years of his probation.

"I let her know that I was very, very baffled, what had happened and apologized for my son, along with I'm so sorry what happened to you," Hawkins added. "And I didn't know what -- I didn't know what else to say, and I gave her a hug and she hugged me as well."

Despite the months of emotionally straining legal proceedings, public speculation and gossip reports in constant rotation, Brown declared he still loved Rihanna, remaining quite solemn about the next phases in their respective lives.

"I never fell out of love with her. That just wouldn't go away," he said. "I definitely would be affected by it, but at the end of the day, I mean, we're not together, so if she's happy, I'm cool," the singer said.

Following is an excerpt fron the King interview, set to air on September 2nd.

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