Can't get reflect to not return pointers, compiler panics on conversion?

Code written around something like this is causing an issue:

func CreateNewItemOfType(returnType reflect.Type) (interface {}) {
    return reflect.New(returnType).Interface();

}

... How can one actually return a struct of returnType and not a pointer to a struct, as reflect creates here? The compiler builds this fine but panics at run-time, yet will not accept an asterisk in front of the return call here in order to actually return the struct and not a pointer.