At least he ‘tried’.

“I was so nervous. I was super nervous. I didn’t know what to think [going in],” Brown said during a one-on-one sit-down for the MTV News special “Chris Brown: The Interview,” airing Friday (November 5) at 6 p.m. ET/PT on MTV. ” ‘Man, I’m going to get on here, and they’re going to chew me up and everybody is just going to go in on me.’ So I was more scared than anything.

“[There's] really not too much preparing you can do,” he continued. “I did a lot of media training and a lot of stuff like that, and it kind of wasn’t genuine to me. Everything I was saying was from my heart, but it was kind of controlled. ‘Well, don’t say it like this, because it will look like that.’ “

Brown said he wanted to “just be personable,” but the setting was uncomfortable for him. “It wasn’t that kind of situation where I could be me,” he said. “So I was just: ‘I don’t wanna say anything wrong.’ “

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