Rihanna’s father, Ronald Fentyhe died at age 70, in the early hours of this Saturday, in Los Angeles. The official cause of his death is unknown for now, although it is due to a long disease. The family has traveled to California to say goodbye to him.
Rihanna’s brother, Rajad Fenty, moved to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center In Los Angeles to visit his father on Wednesday, as can be seen in some photos published by Page Six. It was believed that Rihanna was also in the same car, but it is not distinguished in the photos, although it has been confirmed that she was with him in his last hours.
Rihanna and his father never understood themselves and their relationship has been marked by the controversies. He crossed several delicate stages for his addiction to alcohol and drugs, which unleashed conflicts between them. Ronald divorced Rihanna’s mother, Monica Braithwaite, when the singer was 14 years old. Rihanna addressed her distancing with her parent in a 2011 interview with Voguequalifying their relationship as “Really strange”. “That is the only word that occurs to me to describe it because you grow up with your Father … You are part of Him, for the love of God!” He told the magazine.
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“And then it does something so strange that I can’t even start understanding it,” added the singer. Terror stories about people who act behind others are heard and do strange things, but you always think: «My family is not. My father would never do that.
Rihanna sued her father in 2019 for using her name to obtain economic benefits through her talent development companyFenty Entertainmentwhich according to him was affiliated with the singer.
The news of the death comes while Rihanna is waiting for her third son with her lifelong boyfriend, A $ AP Rocky. The artist announced her pregnancy this month by presenting her incipient belly in this year’s Met gala.
