“It’s just, like, um, wow.”

That is more or less all Chris Brown could say in this teaser of his Larry King interview when discussing his feelings about attacking his ex-girlfriend Rihanna.
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It’s like he completely disconnects himself from that person who did what he can’t even publicly say he did. Tracy from Broadsheet hits the nail on the head in her sum-up of what this guest appearance seems to be: convincing the public that he is a good boy who would never do such a thing, that he still loves Rihanna and doesn’t even remember brutalizing and threatening to kill her (despite prior incidences), and in other words, he’s talking the same talk most abusers do but imploring America – not Rihanna – to forgive him.
Ugh.
UPDATE: A reader alerted us to Brown clarifying that he does, in fact, remember the attack.
Approximate transcript after the jump.

Larry King: When you hear about all the things that the police and the reports said you did, how do you react to that?
Chris Brown: I just look at it, like, wow, like I’m in shock because first of all, that’s not who I am as a person and that’s not who I promise I want to be so I just look at the police reports or I hear about the police reports, I don’t know what to think. I just don’t know what to think. It’s just, like, wow.
Larry King: Do you remember doing it?
Chris Brown: (Pauses) No…
Larry King: You don’t remember doing it?
Chris Brown: I don’t, I don’t, it’s like, crazy to me, I’m like wow.
Larry King: What did he say to you, Joyce, when this happened? The first time you spoke to your son?
Joyce Hawkins: He came and he actually spoke to me about what happened and I was totally shocked, totally upset about the whole situation because I knew that Chris has never ever been a violent person. Ever. I mean throughout the entire time through high school, I’ve never been called for that…never.