Brown – who insists he will never hit a woman again – insists that he feels enduring love for the woman he left bloodied and battered after a jealous tiff.

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

The R&B star sat next to his mother Joyce Hawkins – herself a victim of domestic abuse – to speak of his shame at his own violent behaviour.

He says he turned to his mother straight away after he attacked the Umbrella star in his car after they drove away from a pre-Grammy’s party in L.A..

“I was distraught,” he said. “I went to my mum on the same night and told [her] what happened and broke down.”

Despite his attack, however, he still believes he is different than abusers like the stepfather he grew up living in terror of. “I feel like he enjoyed it,” Chris said. “It was continuous.”

Brown, 20, has pleaded guilty to felony assault and was sentenced last week to five years’ probation for the attack.

Metal kingpins Disturbed have released a new iPhone app. This latest apple interface allows you to keep in constant contact with the band through up to the minute feeds of the latest news and direct updates from the band. The new application is compatible with the iPhone and the iPod touch and will allow users to interact directly with live features available on Disturbed1.com.

Disturbed have also just uploaded their live set from the March 21st Waterloo, IA show onto their official bootleg site. During the rest of the tour check back on site to see when other shows are released. Every single show on the 38-city, nine-week trek will be available for purchase to the fans. The download package includes the entire show in 256K, DRM-free MP3 format, exclusive photographs from the show, exclusive artwork, and the full set-list — all for just $9.99. The Official Bootlegs Series gives Disturbed fans the chance to own audio not only of the shows they attend, but also of the shows they cannot attend, and collect the whole series.

Disturbed’s latest studio album Indestructible is now available in stores and at all digital markets.