Chris Brown Says No More Apologizing, Calls Beating Rihanna a ‘Mishap’

This is probably the last time that Chris Brown will be speaking about the February 2009 episode, in which he got so mad he beat Rihanna to a pulp and nearly choked her to death. Us Weekly has a preview of an interview Brown gave to PageSix.

For starters, the singer says that what’s done is done and he has no plans to keep on apologizing for what happened on the night he viciously attacked his then-girlfriend, leaving her looking like this.

He’s a grown man, he says, and apologizing more will make him look like a fool. Plus, he says, there will always be haters.

“People are always gonna talk. But I’m in a positive place. I consider myself a grown-[expletive] man. At the end of the day, if I walk around apologizing to everybody, I’m gonna look like a damn fool,” Brown says.

Currently, he’s preparing for the release of his brand new album, called “F.A.M.E.,” which actually stands for “Forgiving All My Enemies.”

Speaking of enemies, Brown also reveals he’s made some after he beat up Rihanna and the whole thing got out into the press, because many of his friends turned his back on him and would not be associated with his name.

“They don’t want to get involved with it because they don’t want their name attached to anything negative. Unknowingly, they kind of show their true colors when they do that,” Brown believes.

He then goes on to call the whole Rihanna abuse scandal a “mishap,” with celebrity bloggers rallying up against him to say that he continues to try and play the victim card when he shouldn’t.

“You can’t blame people for how they want to be portrayed or if they don’t want to be associated with somebody who had a particular mishap,” he says.

But at least Chris had his fans rooting for him, even when it seemed that no one else did.

“The last two years, everybody dissed me. But my fans were so dedicated. The way I look at it is, you can’t walk around mad, because then you just prove everybody right that you’re an angry person,” he says. 

*Update [March 11, 2011]: Chris Brown was not referring to the Rihanna episode as a “mishap,” it has emerged. In the full interview, he’s talking in general terms about the pitfalls of fame (when speaking about his upcoming album “F.A.M.E”) and how one can choose to sacrifice friends to save a reputation.