Posted by Adam

Monday August 31, 2009

Chris Brown says he still loves Rihanna — despite leaving her black and blue six months ago.

The singer — who was recently sentenced to five years probation for the February assault of the Umbrella hitmaker — insists he still has feelings for his former flame.

Brown sat down with People magazine for his first interview and — as his mother Joyce Hawkins, a victim of domestic abuse herself, sat nearby.

He opened up about his shame over that “terrible” night, his enduring love for Rihanna and why he swears he’ll never hit a woman again.

“I never fell out of love with her,” he said. “That just wouldn’t go away.”

He says after the assault, “I was distraught … I went to my mom on the same night and told [her] what happened and broke down.”

Chris says he’s different from his stepfather, who he says regularly abused his mother because, “I feel like he enjoyed it. He was an abuser. It was continuous.”

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