Rihanna caught lucky star when she was only 16 years old. This sultry Barbados beauty instantly won the hearts of listeners and became one of the highest paid stars of show business. After only a few years on the stage, Ri-Ri earned her the nickname of style icon and pop idol. Of course, this is the merit of the girl herself and her talent, but it is also not worth throwing aside the work of her team.
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Future music star was born on February 20, 1988 in a small town on the island of Barbados, in the very ordinary family. The chosen name of the singer, Rihanna, is real. She is Robin Rihanna Fenty on her passport. At 14, Rihanna's parents divorced. Despite the fact that her father had a craving for alcohol and marijuana, she always maintained a relationship with him. The life of the future singer proceeded to the rhythms of reggae music. The girl began to sing at the age of seven, and at school she even managed to organize her own trio. It was as part of this trio that Rihanna went in 2003 to audition for Evan Rogers at the hotel where he accidentally stayed in Barbados. This was a decisive step in Rihanna's career. It was Evan Rogers who saw the future in her. world star. The producer did not even pay attention to the two girls who came with her.
Carier start
Evan Rogers helped Rihanna record her first demos. It took almost a year, because the girl tried to combine her studies in high school and could only come to the recording studio during the holidays. But the demos were recorded, and Rogers started looking for a contract with one of the music labels. In 2005, the recording of the young singer came to Jay-Z, who at that time was the president of the music label Def Jam Recordings. The rapper decided to personally meet with Rihanna and listen to her. Their meeting ended successfully, and Rihanna, without hesitation, signed her first contract with Def Jam. After that, she immediately canceled appointments with other labels, dropped out of school and started recording her first album. It took exactly three months, and the beginning stellar career was supposed to.
Recognition and further career
Ri-Ri's first album Music of the Sun was released in 2005 and sold two million copies. Her first single immediately took a leading position in the lists of the most popular singles in 15 countries around the world.
Just a month after the release of the first album, Rihanna began recording the second, called A Girl like Me. He came out the following year. The main single was the song SOS, which took a leading position in the US charts.
A year later, in 2007, the singer released another album - Good Girl Gone Bad. The main hit of this album was the song Umbrella, recorded together with Jay-Z. Then, in 2008, this album was re-released under the name Good Girl Gone Bad: Reloaded and included three completely new songs.
In 2009, Rihanna recorded her fourth album - Rated R, whose songs traditionally took the first lines of the world charts.
The singer's fifth album Loud was released in 2010. Rihanna does not stop working and traditionally a year later, in 2011, the next album, Talk That Talk, is released.
In 2012, Rihanna released her seventh album, Unapologetic.
Then there is a pause in the annual album recordings and the next, eighth album, Anti, was released in January 2016.
Awards
For my dizzying career Rihanna has been rightfully recognized and repeatedly awarded nominations and victories in various music awards. So, the American Music Awards nominated the singer for the award 15 times, and Rihanna won 8 times.
Rihanna has been nominated 11 times at the ASCAP Pop Music Awards and has won each one. Also, all the nominations of the performer ended with an unconditional victory in such awards as BMI Pop Music Awards (10 awards), BMI Urban Awards (6 awards), IFPI Platinum Europe Awards (5 awards), Z Awards (8 awards).
At The Barbados Music Awards, the pop diva has won 38 awards and received 49 nominations.
Also in the most important music award- Grammy Awards - the singer was awarded in 23 nominations and took 8 of them.
During her career, Rihanna has won dozens more competitions and received hundreds of nominations, and more and more new conquests and victories await the singer.
Rihanna's boyfriends
Like many famous people, Rihanna tries to keep her personal life private and out of the picture, but like other celebrities, she can't go completely unnoticed. To date, reporters have managed to count five of Rihanna's lovers. This list included:
- Negus Sealey. Rihanna's first love in those days when she still lived in Barbados and was not famous all over the world. The departure of the singer in the United States was the reason for the end of their stormy romance.
- Rihanna's civil husband is Chris Brown. The relationship between them ended in court in 2009, but then in 2012 the lovers reunited again, in order to disperse in 2013 and, probably, forever.
- Baseball player Matt Kempom.
- Basketball player JR Smith. Relations with one and the second athlete were short-lived and lasted only a few months.
- Asher. The information appeared in 2011 in the press, but has not been confirmed in any way.
Also, over the years, rumors about Rihanna's relationship with rapper Drake have not subsided. But judging by the way these rumors appear and then quietly disappear, one can conclude that they either Good friends, or use each other as a screen for journalists.
Relationship with Chris Brown
Rihanna and Chris Brown have never been officially married, but everyone called their relationship a civil marriage. And Chris Brown was, if not official, but the real husband of Rihanna. Their relationship began back in 2008. At first, this information was leaked to the Internet and had no confirmation. But later, the couple stopped hiding their relationship and began to show themselves to the public without hesitation. The split in the relationship occurred in 2009, after the tragedy that occurred with Rihanna.
Rihanna's personal tragedy
On February 8, 2009, at the annual Grammy Awards, Rihanna's performance was abruptly cancelled. The reason for this was a quarrel with Rihanna's husband. Chris Brown beat the singer the night before the ceremony in a car and fled the scene. Rihanna was found on the street by the police. The beatings were so severe that the girl could not walk on her own. The public learned about this tragic incident from the Internet. Somehow the photo beaten by her husband The Rihannas leaked to the Web, and the whole world knew about it in the blink of an eye.
Court
In the same year, Chris Brown was tried. The singer was present at the trial and testified. Ex-husband Rihanna fully admitted his guilt and, as it turned out, after escaping from the crime scene, he himself appeared at the police station with a confession. Chris Brown was sentenced to corrective labor and five years of probation, and he was also officially banned from approaching Rihanna more than 50 yards. The exception was official and public events, where the distance was allowed to be reduced to 10 yards. Chris Brown also publicly apologized to his ex-wife, and, it would seem, on this their relationship should have ended once and for all.
Forgiveness
Within three years of completion judicial trial Rihanna had several relationships in her life that did not affect her biography in any way. Rihanna's husband tried to rekindle their relationship. And, despite all the previous events of their lives, the singer forgave and returned to him. The couple began to live together again, for this, Rihanna acquired a mansion in Los Angeles. It was rumored that perhaps the couple decided to have children. Rihanna and her husband did not focus on their plans for the future. But as it turned out, all the rumors and speculation did not materialize, and the couple broke up, holding out less than a year. The house, bought for cohabitation with Brown, Rihanna hastened to sell, thus putting an end to this relationship.
To date, in the biography of the singer in the column "the name of Rihanna's husband" there is a dash. But she is so young, beautiful, talented and popular that neither she nor her fans should despair. Moreover, Rihanna is not at all bothered by the absence official spouse. She still has everything ahead - and happy family life, and children, and conquering new heights in her dizzying career.
Jay Z offered Rihanna a contract as soon as he saw her. An experienced producer, he immediately saw in her a future big star. And I didn't guess. ELLE is about the brightest and most challenging pop artist of recent years.
body and dresses
Rihanna is originally from Barbados, and there, according to her, they go naked without any problems. A faithful patriot, the singer does not lag behind her countrymen even far from her homeland. Either at home he embarrasses the servants (“the gardener saw me five times by the pool, hihi”), then he will come to Tom Ford’s party in a transparent dress a la The Great Gatsby.
In the summer of 2013, respectable residents of Monaco were shocked to see the singer walking the streets in a swimsuit. And it was not at the beach, namely in the city. Rihanna, who was touring Europe at the time with the Diamonds World Tour, arrived in Monaco to rest for a couple of days and decided that she had the right to think about nothing. Or maybe she was just imitating Lady Gaga?
By the way, after the concert in the dressing room, Rihanna walks naked for about half an hour - so that, as she says, the body breathes.
Before each concert, the artist must take on her chest. And he doesn't hide it. She says that many of her colleagues do this, only because of the fashion for healthy lifestyle life are embarrassed to admit. And Rihanna is not shy.
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Scandals
Instagram has let Rihanna down more than once. In April 2012, the singer posted a couple of photos in which she sits on the shoulders of her bodyguard. It was at the Coachella festival, Rihanna was in the fan zone, and she had a lot of fun. It was even more fun for those who, having enlarged the pictures, found a stellar security guard on a bald skull ... white powder!
Twitter also keeps Rihanna fans on their toes. In the summer of 2014, a post appeared there with the hashtag #FreePalestine (“Free Palestine”). Despite the fact that the hashtag lived for only five minutes (then the moderators removed it), the singer was inundated with comments. Frightened that she did something wrong, Rihanna said that she accidentally copied the hashtag while reading an article about the Middle East conflict (yeah, of course), and in general she is for world peace.
Visiting Abu Dhabi, Rihanna decided to arrange a photo shoot at the Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque. Dressed in a jumpsuit with a hood, which (not a hood, but a jumpsuit) showed more than it hid, the singer began to take defiant poses against the backdrop of the mosque. And she was cast out in disgrace. That did not stop her from posting a couple of pictures on the network.
Once the football player Ronaldo came to the concert of Rihanna, then looked into the dressing room, and that's how they met. Of course, they took a selfie for memory, the singer quickly threw the photo on the network and ... signed: "I have many gay friends." Is this a joke or what?
Fans love Rihanna very much. But they don't let her down either. When an artist, being in bad mood, delayed the concert in Nice for three hours, her Twitter almost burst from curses.
Once in Thailand, Rihanna went for a walk and took a picture on the street with funny loris animals. I posted it on Instagram, the local police saw the picture and rushed to look for the owners of the animals. Found and arrested because lorises are rare animals and are protected by law.
Men
For all her outrageousness, Rihanna is rather modest in terms of her personal life - she prefers not quantity, but quality. At least that was the case when the singer fell head over heels in Chris Brown. And everything would be fine, but the couple went down in history not with kisses and wedding doves, but with a fight. It was in 2009, on the eve of the Grammy Awards party. Both were greatly expected at the ceremony - Rihanna and Chris were supposed to present the nominees and sing - but the couple did not appear.
It turned out that on the night before the ceremony at the party, they had a falling out, began to cling to each other and Chris hit his friend several times in the face. Then he got scared, got into the car and drove away, leaving his beloved on the street. There was an arrest, a trial, Brown was almost imprisoned, and Rihanna, by the way, quickly forgave him. And after some time she began to meet with him again - in order to soon part forever. Love, as you know, is evil.
Between the old and new romances with Brown, the singer dated baseball player from the Los Angeles Dodger team Matt Kemp (she herself confirmed - "Yes, he's my boyfriend") and with basketball player JR Smith. For the past few years, her personal life has been a complete fog - either Asher, or Negus Seeley, her first man and first love, who in his Barbados bears the proud nickname "God of Love." Rihanna was seen with Negus and during the drama with Chris, when the singer flew to cry to an old friend in a vest. We saw it again later. Then the press wentssip about the alleged rapprochement with Leonardo DiCaprio, and last summer it was rinsed as a fait accompli affair with Drake. Which, too - allegedly - has already ended. Gossip is gossip, but the fact that Rihanna quickly unfollowed Jennifer Lopez's Instagram when the tabloids began to promote Drake's affair with J. Lo is a fact.
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Two main divas modern pop music still connected business relations. Not directly, but through B's husband, rapper Jay Z, who is Rihanna's boss. It was Jay Z who hyped the Barbados girl to the skies. Which is said to stress his wife. In addition, Beyoncé is rumored to be jealous of her husband for a younger singer. In all sorts of charts of sexuality, Rihanna is consistently ahead of her older colleague. Maxim magazine gave Rihanna 22nd place in the list of super sexy 2011, but Beyoncé did not take it there. Another magazine, FHM, ranked Rihanna at number 3 and Beyoncé at number 45. No wonder all sorts of bad things happen afterwards. Beyoncé breaks down and breaks down.
Once, customers at a New York restaurant watched her quarrel with Jay Z. Instead of listening carefully to what his wife says to him, the rapper corresponded with Rihanna, who was sitting opposite.
Rihanna and Trump
The latest scandal associated with Rihanna concerns politics. Commenting on the tightening of immigration laws in the United States, which enforces new president Rihanna erupted in an emotional post on Twitter. Donald Trump deserved the title of "immoral pig" from the singer. "It's disgusting! Terrible news! America is being destroyed right before our eyes. What an immoral pig you have to be to do this,” she wrote.
The story of the bright and exotic Rihanna began in the Caribbean. Her unique voice and own style, in which R'n'B, pop and reggae harmoniously merged, today everyone will unmistakably recognize. A total number songs that were in the lead in the official charts of America, even the pop diva Madonna could move. Today Rihanna is not only famous singer but also an actress and designer.Childhood
Rihanna, better known in her youth as Robin (Robyn Rihanna Fenty), was born where many dream to be - in the hot Barbados with the azure coast and measured reggae rhythms. She had a passion for creativity and the stage from an early age, as evidenced by her participation in performances, beauty contests and musical concerts. Later, the teenager, inspired by music, organized his own group, where two like-minded friends were invited. The first success in the form of a prize came to her at the song contest for Mariah Carey's composition "Hero". 
At the age of 16, Rihanna smiled real luck. Mutual friends arranged for her to audition with producer Evan Rogers, who was vacationing on the coast. Evan's production career has been quite successful, as he has already worked with pop stars such as Christina Aguilera.
Robin's talent and voice impressed the producer, and he did not hesitate to invite her to try her luck in the USA. The parents of the future singer, who at that time lived separately, did not interfere with her ambitions, therefore, without graduating from school, Robin left Barbados.
The beginning of a musical career
As Rihanna herself will later say, in those years, her ambitions went off scale. With Evan's help, Rihanna's audition mini-recordings were sent to various record companies, one of which was owned by well-known up-and-coming rapper Jay Z. On the day they met, he saw a powerful potential in her and was not mistaken. Starting to work under his auspices, Rihanna remained his ward for many years. 
Robin's career began in the same 2005 with the song "Pon de Replay", which introduced the still unknown singer to the whole world, full of native Caribbean flavor and Afro-Hawaiian roots. The incendiary single hit the top positions of the charts, the main of which was the American Billboard Hot 100. In the same year, Rihanna's first record "Music of the Sun" was born, successfully sold out in half a million copies. Robin was in no hurry with concerts, but to advertise her person she often performed as an opening act for the stars, and at the same time wrote music for future hits.
Rihanna - Pont de Replay
The next album was not long in coming. "A Girl Like Me", (2006) hit the top 5 in US and UK sales. The composition “SOS” that got into it sounded on all radio stations, where it occupied the first places in terms of the number of plays on the air. It was later used in ads for Nike sportswear.
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In parallel with music in 2006, the singer began to participate in the filming of films. Rihanna's debut film was the comedy Bring It On, where she played a cameo. Designer Manolo Blahnik has repeatedly spoken publicly about the artistic talents of Rihanna, which, in his opinion, only a true movie star can have. 
In 2007, the singer presented the album "Good Girl Gone Bad", which became her life-changing. He earned popularity not only in the states, but also in the CIS, Japan, Brazil. The main hit "Umbrella" sang the whole world, which brought the first well-deserved "Grammy" and the status of "breakthrough of the year". This was the first composition in which Rihanna revealed her vocal abilities to the maximum. The hit of the year was sung in a duet with Jay-Z, and written with Justin Timberlake, who later became the backing vocalist for Rehab. Together with the explosive album, the image of the star changed - to a bold, brutal one, corresponding to its name. Rihanna boldly experimented with short haircuts and revealing stage attire.
Rihanna - Umbrella ft. Jay Z
After a difficult breakup between Rihanna and Chris Brown, the album "Rated R" was released in 2009 with the leader in all the charts "Russian Roulette". Fans immediately noticed the gloominess and aggressiveness of the album's songs, which were marked by the star's heartache. And a year later, the incendiary dance “Loud” was released, with the main hit “Only Girl”. In it, the world saw a completely new Ri - real, self-sufficient, bold, not imposing any images on herself.
In 2010, the singer earned another Grammy, and a year after the sixth album, Talk That Talk, she received the status of the best-selling performer in Britain.
In 2012, “Diamonds” from the new album “Unapologetic” sounded on the radio, which became the absolute leader of the world charts, and a year later it repeated “The monster” sung in a duet with Eminem. In the same year, she brought her artistry to the shooting of the science fiction film " sea battle with Liam Neeson in one of the main roles.
Rihanna - Diamonds
With the release of the eighth album, Rihanna was in no hurry, so it was presented only in 2016 under the name "Anti". The opinion about him was ambiguous: some saw the quality of vocals and musical sound, the second - complete bad taste. However, the record was free, which was appreciated by millions of listeners.
Over the years musical activity successful duets came out not only with Eminem, but also with Shakira, Kanye West, Paul McCartney. The number of prestigious awards for the singer in the music field has become quite impressive. In terms of the number of all the songs that were in the lead in America's main hit parade "Hot 100", Rihanna overtook Madonna herself. Similar successes were only with Michael Jackson.
Rihanna's personal life
Rihanna has never willingly shared details about her romances with the press, but it's hard to hide from the paparazzi. She was regularly credited with relationships with famous people, often with African American rappers - Puff Daddy, Usher, Drake. Once the singer was credited with closeness with Photo Album cover «Loud» RihannaRecalling the details of Katy Perry's recent bachelorette party, Rihanna chuckles. “There were a lot of toy penises. Any shape, anything imaginable. Balloons, beads, sweets - all in the form of penises. Even in the pool we swam on a big banana shaped like a cock."
The girl swells with pride at how well she did as a bridesmaid (Katy Perry married Russell Brand, comedian Indian origin. - approx. MC). She remembers everything down to the last detail: the hot tubs in the penthouse at the Hard Rock Hotel in Las Vegas, the pool, the redeemed circle of seats at the Cirque du Soleil. And at the end of the day, a trip to a strip club, which was chosen long and carefully: “We have very special requirements for such entertainment. I don’t understand how we survived this day, but the bachelorette party was magnificent.”
Rihanna glows with happiness. We just shot the cover of Marie Claire and are chatting in a studio in west London. She flew in just 12 hours ago, but had already ordered something from her favorite Caribbean eatery, Ochi, on Ladbroke Grove. She is fresh and relaxed, which is beyond comprehension, considering that she did not rest at all. Probably, it is this superpower that allows her to work, and then every evening in full dress to appear at the most important parties around the world. To their own musical achievements she's about to add a movie debut in the sci-fi film Battleship.
She gladly talks about her friendship with rival singer Katy Perry. They met at the presentation of some kind of award - “And by the end of the ceremony they were sitting opposite each other, laughing at everyone and everything. I remember Cathy saying to herself, “That girl doesn’t have an edit button. And that's what I like most about her."
"Are you the same?" I'm interested. Rihanna thinks for a moment, then replies, “Now I edit a lot less… I used to be constantly on the lookout for what I put out for public discussion. But after some events, it became clear to me that it was impossible to keep track of everything, and I stopped caring too much about it. ”
"Did this happen after you broke up with Chris Brown?" - "Yes. When it's all over. My photos, I'm naked. It was so low ... ”- she is not angry with him, she is just offended.
In May of this year, photos of naked Rihanna, taken on a cell phone in a hotel room, appeared on the Internet. On one of them, the girl wrote “I love you” with lipstick on the bathroom mirror. Stolen pictures appeared shortly before former lover Rihanna singer Chris Brown (who, in fact, addressed the message on the mirror) was found guilty of beating her. Naturally, the publication of pictures finally destroyed their relationship. “I look good on them. I don’t understand why these pictures caused so much negativity among people. Everyone considered it a duty to express their “fu””.
Our interview moves along an incomprehensible trajectory, we either jump ahead or return to the past. Now she can afford to easily talk about the nasty things she went through. It's funny that at the same time, a sweet, rude Barbadian accent breaks through her speech: “After all, it's quite clear - I trusted him like a fool. I had no experience of communicating with reptiles, I always sincerely opened up to another person. Even in the photos I took myself. But now ... There are always things that you don’t want to share with everyone, but there is something that no longer makes sense to hide. ”
Is she free now? For sure. It's so convenient to be able to be yourself, to say what you think. You fall asleep faster at night, wake up in a good mood and no longer hide from anyone. Rihanna is a style icon, she is mind-blowingly popular. Three years ago this would have been unthinkable. Her hit "Umbrella" climbed to the top of the world charts in the summer of 2007, and the album Good Girl Gone Bad, which sold 16 million copies, made her a world celebrity from the top ten.
Her singles "Pon de Replay" and "SOS" are unforgettable, but she turned them into serious fame for more than a day. She has a persistent character, and she had a goal - to break out of the poverty that surrounded her since childhood. She was driven not by ambition, but by the fear she suffered as a child, watching the nighttime antics of her drug-addicted father. Girl and her two younger brother saw too much before their mom kicked her husband out.
At the age of 14, Robin Rihanna Fenty performed with her friends at recess at Saint Michael School in Barbados, portraying the trio Destiny's Child. A year later, Rihanna was discovered by an American music producer Evan Rogers, vacationing on an island paradise. She celebrated her sixteenth birthday already in the USA, in the state of Connecticut, where she was taken by Rogers and his wife - with the firm intention of raising a real star. The girl infected him with her determination.
During the shooting, the Load album was playing in our studio, which at that moment had not yet been released. Rihanna asked representatives record company, strict to ensure that pirates do not get to her music, allow her to connect her iPhone to the studio's server. Rhythmic, upbeat, very girlish, this album is a far cry from last year's gloomy Rated R. It's a sure sign that Rihanna's love of life is returning.
“Everything I feel is reflected in my music. I am an honest, outspoken girl,” says Rihanna. Rated R came out after a terrible row with Chris Brown, the songs "Cold Case Love" and "Russian Roulette" are soaked in the pain of a difficult relationship.
"Are you over it yet?" - "Well, yes! she answers with a challenge. “Recording Rated R helped keep me from going crazy. But now everything is clear.
She does not flirt, she does not dramatize. What happened on February 8, 2009 is a real, one hundred percent nightmare. Two years later, she was able to recover a little and already reluctantly returns to the monstrous humiliation, which received wide publicity and became part of her biography. Now everyone knows that Rihanna and her boyfriend were driving around Los Angeles in his silver Lamborghini. They were returning from one of the parties that accompanied the Grammy Awards ceremony. He received an SMS from his ex girlfriend, Rihanna expressed everything she thinks about it. The quarrel ended with Brown beating her severely - with fists and kicks. The photographs presented by the police in court show that there is no living place on the face of Rihanna from bruising. Then there was a brief reconciliation, officially announced by the couple at a party at the P. Diddy mansion in Miami. But Rihanna, on reflection, decided that she did not really want to build a bright future with this person. As a result, Brown was found guilty on June 22, 2010, sentenced to seven months of hard labor and five years in prison. probationary period. The court also imposed additional restrictions on him, forbidding him to approach Rihanna closer than 45 meters (at public events, where they are both invited, is closer than 9 meters).
The wounds on Rihanna's face have long since healed, and she has learned to react with obvious indifference to everything related to that story. How many people have commented on this! How many people said that she herself was to blame! But now she doesn't owe anyone anything. Journalists are addicted to other people's scandals, Rihanna knows it. And she knows that I will definitely ask her about Chris Brown. I was prepared for the fact that she would answer dryly or even slam the door, saying that she did not want to talk to me anymore. But Rihanna suddenly opened her soul to me. As a volunteer hero, I even felt embarrassed. She let me know that her case is not just a hyped story from the life of a famous girl. She agreed to talk about it, wanting to emphasize that domestic violence- not exotic, a huge number of women face this every day.
She searches for words to better formulate her thought. And she has something to say about this: “It's scary, because everything you start to say or do ceases to be yours. You don't do it the way you used to do it anymore. It's all not yours. You don't dress like that, you say the wrong words. It seems like it's not happening to you. You feel empty.” Rihanna's eyes sparkle, but she says she's fine. – I feel... Now I really feel. I'm smiling. The smile comes from somewhere inside, and so with everything that I do. People feel that I have a completely different energy now. When I laugh, they can say that this is a manifestation of happiness, and not a mask on duty. But I remember how terrible it is when others are happier than you. That was the worst."
"You are outraged that your private life became the subject of public discussion? - "No. That was the only way I could get out of that relationship. It was the only correct way. The path along which the Lord leads our destinies sometimes seems very strange from the outside. You ask yourself: “What did I do to deserve this? Why did everything turn against me?” But I needed that call. needed a turning point and God gave it to me. It's like going through trials in complete darkness- nothing is visible, but gradually everything is being corrected, and this is an amazing feeling ... I am grateful for all the bad things that happened to me, for all the nasty things that were said about me. I'm grateful for that."
"Why do you say that?" “Because it helped me cleanse. Such an experience is worth a lot. You go through it and become stronger than all the shit that happened to you. The words that speak about you bring you down to the very bottom. But at some point you raise your head again. This is your greatest achievement! I knew the day would come when it would all be over.” She pauses to collect her thoughts. “Without it, I would not have been able to become that woman, friend, sister, role model. I think my friends noticed this - it is always better seen from the outside. But when you look from the inside, you seem to be blind and do not see what the heart feels. That's what happened. When it was over, I still wasn't sure. I ended it because I knew it was so right. But I haven’t finished here yet,” and Rihanna poked her chest with her finger.
“I even remember when I realized that everything was over. It was in New York. I woke up in the Trump Hotel and realized it was a brand new day. I wanted to get up and go out into the world.”
On that day, she walked the streets of New York, went into stores, sat in cafes, bought something again. Just enjoyed life.
Rihanna, oddly enough, continues to be scolded. For example, for participating in the video for Eminem's single "Love The Way You Lie", in which home scuffle is "glamorized". Rihanna disagrees: “Eminem is sort of fighting himself in this song. It provides an opportunity to see what goes on in the minds of lovers and how it leads to violence in the relationship. I like this clip, especially in those moments when the girl is about to leave, but comes back, is about to leave again and comes back again. You understand that such relationships drag on. It looks like she likes it. She doesn't really like it, but if you don't leave, you have to admit that you like it, really like it."
Earlier this year, Rihanna began dating baseball star Matt Kemp of the LA Dodgers. I asked if she was in love, Rihanna smiled, “Yes. It's easy with him. He's really good."
Does Rihanna believe in destiny? "Now yes. I didn't believe before. I don’t want to look back 30 years and say: “I did everything to please people, but I myself am unhappy.”
Barbadian singer Rihanna, or scandalous girl, as she is also called, is not very happy in her personal life, although it would seem that she has everything to become an enviable bride: bright appearance, success, money. Nevertheless, she has not yet managed not only to get married, but also to enter into a serious relationship without fights and scandals.
Negus Sealey. First love
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With Negus Seely, who is called the "god of love" in Barbados, Rihanna met shortly before her move to the United States. At that time, the green-eyed beauty Robin Rihanna Fenty was only fifteen years old, but the modesty and, at the same time, sex appeal that came from her conquered the dark-skinned handsome man, from whom all the women of Barbados were crazy, regardless of age, social status And marital status. Rihanna could not resist - the experienced Negus knew how to care and knew perfectly well what to do and say to make a woman lose her head.
Their romance lasted several months, during which they practically did not part: during the day they swam, sunbathed and water skied, and in the evening they went to night club where they had fun until the morning. Rihanna thrived in the arms of the Negus, but as soon as she signed her first professional contract, she told Seely that she needed to leave, so they parted. To the credit of Negus, it must be said that he did not hold back his beloved, because he understood that she was really talented and he had no right to stand in her way leading to success.
Shia LaBeouf. First love in America
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Actor Shia LaBeouf became Rihanna's first American love. They did not meet for long, but the singer still remembers every date - LaBeouf knew how, as they say, to impress. The media wrote all the time about his antics: he got into the police, making a brawl in a pharmacy, almost crashed in a car accident, after which he refused to undergo an examination for alcohol and drugs and was deprived of his rights, and once appeared at the premiere of a film in which he played one of the roles, with... a paper bag on his head. Fortunately for Rihanna, they broke up very quickly, otherwise it is not known how this relationship would have ended for her.
Chris Brown. A bright and tragic novel
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However, all the troubles that Rihanna LaBeouf did not have time to deliver were more than compensated by the singer and actor Chris Brown. Their romance is the brightest and most tragic - at least to date - page of Rihanna's life: ironically, he first saved her life, and then almost sent her to the next world.
They met at a nightclub, the singer choked on a salted nut and was already beginning to choke, but Brown managed to take her out into the street in his arms and, hitting her hard on the back, knocked out the ill-fated nut. Since then, Rihanna and Chris have hardly parted, almost daily giving the press a pretext for articles about their rampant behavior: they spent their nights in nightclubs, washing down drugs with generous portions of alcohol, drove a car during the day or had sex where they felt like it, including number and in public places. The idyll - if, of course, their relationship can be called that - ended on the night of February 2009, when an ambulance took the singer to the Los Angeles Cedars-Sinai hospital. Rihanna was covered in blood, with black eyes, split lips and a broken nose. There were cuts, abrasions and teeth marks on the hands, and strangulation stripes on the neck. Subsequently, it turned out that all these injuries were inflicted on the singer by her lover Chris Brown. In fairness, it must be said that Rihanna started the fight, setting up a wild scene of jealousy in Brown's car, but this does not justify him - he brutally beat his beloved, and then also fled the scene of the crime. True, he later returned and surrendered to the police, fully admitting his guilt. He was arrested, tried and sentenced to five years of probation and one hundred and eighty hours of hard labor - Brown worked them out at a car wash.
The court also forbade Chris to approach Rihanna closer than fifty meters, but he very quickly violated this ban - and at the request of the singer herself, who stubbornly repeated in all interviews that she could neither stop loving him nor forget him. Soon they began to meet again, for which the press gave Rihanna a real persecution, which she courageously endured. Then they parted again - Brown left her for the Vietnamese model Carucci Tren, but he quickly changed his mind and again began dating his adored Riri. Today they live apart again, but this does not mean that tomorrow the lovers, who are closely together, and bored apart, will not come together again.
Drake. Trying to forget Chris Brown
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In the arms of rapper Drake, Rihanna tried to forget Chris Brown. They met in 2009, but for a long time were just friends. The status quo was broken by their joint video Work - its eroticism left no doubt that the young people were in a close relationship. True, after a short time Rihanna ran away from Drake to Chris Brown, relations with whom again went in a vicious circle - jealous of him for Tren, Rihanna left her lover with a scandal.
She did not return to Drake - the journalists decided that she had completely forgotten him, but on August 28, 2016, at the MTV VMA awards ceremony, the story developed: while presenting Rihanna with the Distinguished Service Award, Drake confessed his love to her and kissed her. Moreover, after that, no one saw either the singer or the rapper until they appeared at three in the morning - together! - at the Up&Down nightclub. The couple held hands, and when Rihanna moved away from Drake for at least a few minutes, he did not lose sight of her. "Really famous rapper finally waited for reciprocity from his Barbadian muse? ”The gossip newspapers wrote the next day, and perhaps they were close to the truth.
Rumors about a passionate romance that allegedly takes place between Rihanna and Leonardo DiCaprio began to appear back in 2015: either the two stars were allegedly noticed kissing at one of the parties, then they appeared together in a restaurant, or they could not enjoy a conversation with each other at the Coachella festival. Moreover, when the media suspected that Rihanna was pregnant in the spring of 2016, it was DiCaprio who was called the possible father of her unborn child. However, neither the first nor the second assumption has been confirmed yet, but the third one has appeared - the most likely one - according to which Rihanna's relationship with the star of the films "Titanic" and "The Revenant" is just a PR, for which, as you know, all means are good.
