Today we know her as the princess of R&B, a music icon, and an undisputed bomb. However, Rihanna's life was never a garden of roses.
It is no secret that the singer's childhood was difficult, especially due to the complicated and very conflictive personality of her father, Ronald Fenty, who in the diva's childhood worked as a supervisor in a warehouse in Barbados, where the current star He lived with his two brothers, Rorrey and Rajad Fenty.
In the modest house in which they lived, her father was responsible for numerous episodes of violence towards her wife, Rihanna's mother whom she loves deeply and has taken by the hand in her career to the top. To the point of surprising her more than ten years ago on a famous television show, giving her a luxurious five-bedroom mansion just for her.
But these episodes of violence took their toll on those who were just a child at the time. Although in the photos of her, we can see her with a sweet smile, she absorbed what was happening and this manifested itself in severe migraines that she suffered from the ages of 8 to 14, so much so that doctors feared that the girl was suffering from a fatal illness.
At 14, her parents separated and everything improved there. Although she was indeed left with lifelong scars, Riri was able to capitalize on the bad experiences and come out of them as a strong and resilient woman.
This was what she confessed in an interview with the well-known presenter Oprah Winfrey, where she recalled being furious about many things from her childhood and admitted that this was the reason why for a long time she couldn't separate the figure of the father from the of the husband. However, her time allowed him to heal and although her father continued to give him reasons for her to stay away from her, still, she decided to forgive him and help him as much as possible.
The singer may have believed that the difficult times with him were in the past, but she was completely wrong. It turned out that her father decided to establish a company using the name Fenty Entertainment, the artist's paternal surname, to commit million-dollar frauds.
However, she seems willing to let go of everything that this father seems capable of doing to her. In the same interview we noted earlier, Rihanna told Winfrey: “He taught me everything, as horrible as he was to my mother at times, he doesn't compare to how good a father he was.” Yes, a daughter's love for a father is sometimes unconditional.
Until she was 15, Rihanna lived believing that she only had two brothers. She lived like that until the day she found out that she had a whole secret family in Barbados: two sisters and a brother, all from different mothers. Once again, Riri's father had done his thing.
As confirmed by The Sun, her “other family” is made up of two sisters and a brother from her father's previous relationships: Kandy, Samantha, and Jamie. Despite not sharing many moments with Rihanna, because their lives are very different from that of the pop star, they have stayed in touch and expressed pride in her achievements.
Kandy is perhaps the one with whom the singer has the least relationship because her lives, according to Kandy herself, are opposite. At 32 years old, the young woman appeared at the house of an astonished Ronald Fenty and told him: “Hello, I'm your daughter.” Riri's father was completely unaware that she had an adult daughter. Kandy's mother had been an affair and they had never had contact with each other again. At the time, Rihanna was 15 years old and not yet famous.
Even so, and although in general the three brothers lead simpler and more “conventional” lives than her sister, they do not miss the opportunity to show admiration for her. Even Kandy has said that her daughters, Rihanna's nieces, sing out each of the pop star's songs.
