A first-look video from the aftershow of Chris Brown: A History of Violence gives a glimpse into the discussion that will be had about the controversial singer.

Amid Chris Brown’s decades-long music career full of sold-out tours and smash-hit songs, he was surrounded by legal troubles. Various allegations of abuse against Brown will be examined in the documentary by Investigation Discovery.

Investigation Discovery is the true crime channel that produced Quiet on Set: The Dark Side of Kids TV, the hit Nickelodeon tell-all series. After the Brown documentary airs, an aftershow discussion will air that’s hosted by Sunny Hostin, a current cohost of The View and former federal prosecutor.

The aftershow, according to a press release from Investigation Discovery, “will expand on the discussion about intimate partner violence, providing guidance on recognizing signs of abuse, information on where to find help and insights on violence prevention from a roundtable of leading experts and advocates.”

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In a recently released first-look clip of the aftershow, Sunny talks to Scaachi Koul, a cultural journalist about the infamous domestic violence case involving Brown and his then-girlfriend Rihanna. In 2009, the two got into an argument that resulted in various facial injuries to Rihanna and later that year Brown pled guilty to felony assault and accepted a plea deal of community labor, five years probation, and domestic violence counseling.

“I remember it like it was yesterday,” Sunny said. She then shared that one of her friends took the kids to one of Brown’s concerts recently and when she told the teenage kids about the assault on Rihanna, the kids never heard of it.

Sunny asked Scaachi in the video: “How do we get them to pay attention to something like this?” The journalist answered: “Well, they’re not gonna pay attention to it if we’re not paying attention to it.”

“We have a long tradition of still engaging in work made by men accused of harming women,” she said, adding that Brown and others accused of these crimes make money off of it, “And that money helps obfuscate the reality of what they may have done.”

They discuss if Brown has already paid his debt to society or “deserves to move on.” Scaachi also brings up that there are people who question if Brown was really guilty when it came to the Rihanna incident or asked if the Disturbia singer did something to cause the abuse.

Other experts that will be featured on this show include NO MORE’s co-founder Jane Randel; CEO of The National Domestic Violence Hotline Katie Ray-Jones; Miss Kansas 2024 and Advocate for Healthy Relationships Alexis Smith; and Psychologist Dr. Carolyn West.

The documentary and subsequent aftershow will air on Investigation Discovery on Sunday, October 27 at 9pm EST.