The first interview with Rihanna about Chris Brown's assault on her is airing this week on ABC.

The pop star's one-on-one with Diane Sawyer will air Thursday and Friday on Good Morning America and Friday night on 20/20.

Brown was sentenced in August to five years' probation, six months of community labor and a year of domestic-violence counseling after he pleaded guilty to felony assault.

Ri-Ri is finally getting back into the public eye to promote her new single, Russian Roulette, from her upcoming album, Rated R, out Nov. 23. The Barbados beauty also appears on the cover of this month's Glamour, where she discusses the healing process.

``The positive thing that has come out of my situation is that people can learn from [me],'' she says in the article. ``I want to give as much insight as I can to young women, because I feel like I represent a voice that really isn't heard. Now I can help speak for those women.''

She'll be honored Monday as a Glamour Woman of the Year at its gala awards ceremony at Carnegie Hall.

WEIGHTY ISSUE

Lawyers for Kate Winslet say the Oscar-winning actress has accepted about $40,000 in damages from the Daily Mail, which falsely reported that she lied about her exercise routine.

Winslet, who won the 2009 Academy Award for The Reader, was not in court for Tuesday's settlement, but through her lawyers said she wanted an apology ``to demonstrate my commitment to the views that I have always expressed about body issues, including diet and exercise.'' They did.

Winslet has been an outspoken critic of excessive dieting. In 2007, the healthy-looking Titanic star won damages against a British magazine that wrongly stated she had visited a diet doctor. ``I strongly believe that women should be encouraged to accept themselves as they are, so to suggest that I was lying was an unacceptable accusation of hypocrisy,'' the 33-year-old mother of two said in a statement.

Translation: Don't look for her on Celebrity Fit Club any time soon.

NOT MADE OF MONEY

Nas doesn't want to spread the wealth. The rapper has filed legal papers asking that his ex, Kelis, be blocked from getting spousal support. In the papers, Nas also is asking for joint custody of their 2-month-old son.

Kelis is asking for $72,728 a month. That's a lot of baby bottles.

In July, a New York judge ordered Nas to pay Kelis $55,000 a month in both spousal and child support. Nas just wants to pay for his kid, not for her.

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