Chris Brown is still scared of the public reaction to his assault on ex-girlfriend Rihanna - he’s convinced most people want to see him in jail.

Brown pleaded guilty to beating the Bajan beauty after a party in Los Angeles in February and was sentenced to five years probation, community service and ordered to stay away from the singer for the entire probation period.

He admits that although most of his fans have stood by him, he fears the general public would prefer to see him sent to prison for the attack.

He tells MTV, “(My fans) love me and support me. (But the public) don’t want to see me do anything… they wanna see me kind of, basically in jail.”

Chris Brown: The Interview will air on Friday - the same day as Rihanna’s TV tell-all on talk show 20/20.

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Only after she had a revelation about her duty to her fans did Rihanna realize that she had to speak out about how she was a victim of ex-boyfriend Chris Brown’s domestic abuse.

And now? Now she’s almost ashamed of herself for having gotten into a relationship with him in the first place.

“I fell in love with this person,” she tells Diane Sawyer in an interview that aired on Good Morning America Thursday. “That’s embarrassing.”

The singer, 21, also hinted that it may have taken “eight or nine attempts” before she could finally leave the relationship.

“It’s pretty easy to go back,” she says, affirming Sawyer’s statement that the average woman makes seven attempts to leave an abusive partner. “You start lying to yourself. The physical wounds go away. You want this thing to go away. This is a memory you don’t want to ever have again.”

Now a reconciliation is all but impossible – a judge has ordered Brown, 20, not to contact Rihanna (real name: Robin Fenty) for five years as part of his sentence.

Rihanna says she was further humiliated by the public nature of the incident, which included a leaked photo of her battered face.

“I was like, here goes my little bit of privacy,” she says.

But she had an epiphany about how her actions after the assault would affect thousands of impressionable girls.

“When I realized that my selfish decision for love could result in some young girl getting killed, I could not be easy with that part,” she says. “I couldn’t be responsible for that. Even if Chris never hit me again, who’s to say their boyfriend won’t? Who’s to say they won’t kill these girls? I didn’t realize how much of an impact I had on these girls’ lives until that happened.”

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In a 5 minute clip on Thursday morning, pop star Rihanna broke her silence about the night her ex-boyfriend Chris Brown attacked her. The singer spoke candidly with reporter Diane Sawyer and said she was “embarrassed and ashamed” that’s why she didn’t speak out until now.

On being embarrased and ashamed:
“That’s embarrassing that that’s the type of person that I fell in love with,” Rihanna told “Good Morning America’s” Diane Sawyer in her first television interview discussing the assault. “So far in love. So unconditional that I went back. It’s humiliating to say this happened. To accept that? It’s a traumatizing experience.”

On going back to Brown after the incident:
“I stayed. I even went back after he beat me, which was wrong,” she said. “But again … I’m a human being and people put me on a very unrealistic pedestal. And all these expectations, I’m not perfect.

It’s completely normal to go back. It’s not right. I learned the hard way, but again, this is what I want people to know,” she said. “When I realized that my selfish decision for love could result in some young girl getting killed, I could not be easy with that part. I couldn’t be held responsible for going back.

The full interview will air on 20/20 on Friday night (November 6th).

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She looks beautiful! What do you think of her cover?

Known mostly for her iconic style and original sound, Rihanna got the title of the Women of The Year. Now Rihanna opens up for the fashion magazine Glamour US for the month of December 2009. Rihanna is clearly a superstar for her music and style alone but in breaking her silence about what she calls the ‘big secret’ of domestic violence.

Rihanna turned to a higher power to help her recover from her attack by ex-boyfriend Chris Brown, because she felt so alone in the aftermath of the incident.

The R&B star was thrust into the spotlight when the February assault hit the headlines. Brown was handed a five year probation sentence and ordered to stay away from the Umbrella singer after pleading guilty to losing his temper and hitting her during a fight.

She relied on her friends and family for support, but admits it was her faith in God that really pulled her through the horrific ordeal.

Rihanna tells Glamour magazine, “My friends and family have been extremely supportive, and everyone has been there for me. But at some point you are there alone. It’s a lonely place to be - no one can understand. That’s when you get close to God.”

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Rihanna will break her silence and tell all about her beating at the hands of ex-boyfriend Chris Brown during two U.S. TV interviews this week.

Rihanna was left battered and bruised after a fight with Brown in February, which resulted in the Kiss Kiss singer being ordered to stay away as part of his sentence.

Brown told his side of the story when he was grilled by CNN newsman Larry King in September - and now Rihanna is expected to open up about the incident for the first time when she appears on Good Morning America on Thursday  and again in TV special 20/20 on Friday night.

A TV commercial promoting the shows on the ABC network boasts, “Now, for the very first time, Rihanna tells her story.”
It will be the first interviews Rihanna has granted since the shocking attack.

The Bajan beauty made her live comeback in September - seven months after the assault - and is currently preparing to return to the charts with the release of her fourth studio album, Rated R, later this month.

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