Rihanna’s Reformed Rock Addict Father Sheds Some Light
Posted by Bossip Staff
Rihanna’s dad speaks about the time he was caught smoking rocks among other things:
“I turned and looked Rihanna in the eye and instantly came back down from the high I was on. I saw her run for her mother, ask her something and then they both started to cry. I had no idea she had been watching. It was the lowest point – life just stopped and I realized what a fool I had been.”
When the Sunday Mirror tracked down the father-of-five in Bridgetown, Barbados, he was hawking tacky toys, perfume and household items from the boot of a battered Nissan car. Despite his daughter’s millions, he never asks for a penny and insists he’s happy in his work, which earns him around £250 (about $492 US dollars) for a seven-day week. He said: “The only thing I want is to be a part of her life. I have had her forgiveness, which you can’t put a price on, and I would never dream of asking her for a dollar.”
We’re glad he has gotten his life together, and doesn’t try to cake his daughter out of her dough like some parents do. Ain’t nothing wrong with pushing random toys and trinkets out of the trunk of a Nissan. At least it’s honest work.
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I mean First!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! well glad he aint on rocks n e more!!!
Why couldn’t gary colemans perants be like him? Then he wouldnt be selling ***** on eBay
I thought it was extra special that she took him to the Grammy Awards. I wish them luck in building their relationship.
LOL @ the Trinkets…that word is always funny to me
good for her, more fathers should do the turn around such as he
The man has integrity, which is more than most men have these days.
He’ll be back. They always come back. He was my most reliable client. Once he gets in good with his big head daughter, she’ll gladly hit him off with enough dough to buy a years worth of crack. And I’ll be set for life.
Well, one can certainly see where she got the forehead from.
Damn, 492 dollars a week…not a bad hustle. LMAO
It’s cool that he is dignified enough to not beg his daughter for money and do his own thang.
wow her father is making a pretty decent living from being a vendor.
its good to see that he made a change in his life and is no longer a crackhead.
barbados in the building.
i am glad he turned his life around, and not beggin rihanna fuh money like other parents, if he likes selling clothes, etc, why should he stop cause rihanna got money? he is independent and rihanna is independent.
rihrih, the GRAMMY AWARD WINNING SINGER.
I’m glad that he was able to turn his life around and make a mends with his daughter. I hope he has done the same thing with his other children. Crack is Wack!!
Yeah I agree Bossip an honest day’s work is nothing to be ashamed of. Your respect and comp*****ion surprises me! Kudos
Man, hustling junk out of a pickup in Barbados looks a whole hell of a lot better than doing your hustle from a cubicle in Manhattan in February. This guy’s all right.
That’s a great story – too bad most people won’t appreciate it. You don’t fond too many people with that much integrity, perioad, let alone a recovering addict.
Much love and props to dad!
glad he is off the rocks…that is never any good for anyone and very respectable that he doesn’t ask for her money and stuff. he still has pride. there are so many other parents who just take bank out of the kids bank rolls. Can we say Britney Spears parents!!
Good for him, he isnt trying to just ride his daughters coat tails and is just making an honest living now.
Well at least he off the crack! She definitely looks like him the big head and everything!LOL
I like RiRi more and more each day.
wow…a man wit a solid backbone….
One thing for sure…she ain’t got no money. At least not no “REAL” money. She has to pay back all those pr people that got her face plastered all over the place. Then she’ll see a pay day.
lol at VeeZee
She got more than you do…
“What you eat dont make me *****..”
Good for him. With the exchange rate, if it’s $492 US, it’s about twice that in Bajan dollars.
There is NO way he wasn’t sharing in my WEALTH and success.
SHAME
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Maybe she does help her Dad out a bit but maybe he takes pride in actually working rather than sitting on his a$$.
He’s solid for keepin his head up and for doin what he doin and not askin for nuttin ….but at the end of the day thats her pops she should do somtin for him either if its a bigger car to move his food from or a phat crib in Barbados where he can retire….all im sayin is she cant turn her back juss cuz of his past …especially now when hes off that crap
Rihanna’s father should be ashamed of himself. If he wasn’t looking for some kind of hand me out or publicity, he would have KEPT his trap closed about his crack addiction or whatever. Some things are just better left UNSAID!! The whole world does not need to know everything about you. Period. And what’s up listing his ***** poor salary and that type of car he drives? Please GET SOMEWHERE…& sit down! lol
Her father didn’t do ***** for her, she doesn’t have to do ***** for him. I’m *****uming your father wasn’t a negligent drug addict.
I don’t think Rihanna is talented at all, but the fact that she has even let her father back in her life is admirable. I wouldn’t be as forgiving.
Also, if you weren’t a parent when it mattered most, don’t come scrambling out of the closet because of the money!! He’d still be driving that 91 hooptie in the year 2012 … ALready!!
My father wouldn’t NEED to ask
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cosign.
CSI she had already made it known in one of her mag interviews that her dad was a past addict. She didn’t go into full detail because they as father and daughter hadn’t hashed everything out yet and she would be embar*****ed about talking about it since they hadn’t resolved everything between them.
Its good to know they have a relationship now, a girl needs that with her father and its great he realized that he needed to stop drugs to do that.
Now back to the gossip they say he has 5 kids so that means Ri Rih has 2 half-siblings cuz she always mentions her 2 full brothers who are younger. So did her dad have 2 rock babies with random females when he was separated from Rih’s mom? hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
Good for him and everything, but damn, why did they track her dad down like that??? What an invasion of privacy. He can’t sell his goods in peace?
Bossip should become more celebrity friendly. Some of the editors write like haters. They definately went to far with Rihanna’s father being a crack addict. Was that neccesary? It was mean and cruel. We dont choose our families or their mistakes. My father is a smoker and it can be a very devistating reality. We should be judged by the content of our character, hair,or clothes, she should not be ridiculed for her fathers mishaps. It obviously made her who she is today. Bossip get a conscience and stop hating on these celebs. I would hate myself if I had to make someone cry to get a laugh. Get some integrity Bossip. Yeah, I said it, and I ment it.
Don’t fall for it Rhi once an addict always an addict. Tell it to the drug counselor. “My high came down immediately” right up until you puffed in some more crack. GTFOH
She should give him some dam money! That’s her daddy! He took care of her big headed ***** didn’t he? It only says that she saw him smoking dope it don’t say that he left her and wasn’t in her life. When people come into wealth, they need to take care of their dam parents or whoever took care of their trifling behinds!!!!!!!!!
The man did not say Rihanna don’t give him money… He said that he would not want to ask her for any money… maybe he feels that as a man, he should go out and source his own income…
Rhi Rhi ain’t cold like that… she even brought him to the grammy, she may have sent him to shop for a suit or have him pampered before the grammy!
My parents would not have to ask me a single penny. If I had the money my parents would have it too. They raised me. If I am driving a mercedes so would my mom and dad.
i would still give dude some change….but maybe that’s good….a crack head with millions to spare? i don’t know, mayne!
“Ain’t nothing wrong with pushing random toys and trinkets out of the trunk of a Nissan. At least it’s honest work.”
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I rebuke you!!!!!!!!!!!!
ROTFLMAO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Barbados Crack Dealer
He’ll be back. They always come back. He was my most reliable client. Once he gets in good with his big head daughter, she’ll gladly hit him off with enough dough to buy a years worth of crack. And I’ll be set for life.
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it is so funny that YOU BOSSIP always consider yourself judge and jury.
it is so funny to me,…
My dad is a smoker too, and he ain’t never done jack for me. Yet he is the first one to holla about “that’s my baby, she graduated college, she got a good job etc.” like he contributed to it. All the while asking for a handout. I ain’t giving him jack! Never smoke up my dough.
The opposite of Daddy Creole.
I thought she said her father was white? Her father is as white as my dad. Black! He may be part white, but he’s not white. And now he want’s to be a part of her life? Where was he before? oh right?! Getting high!
The man looks mixed at most, not black. Stop with the One drop rule Bull*****.
No: 1 – Jay z needs to climb down of the that pedda stool that be(weave abusing) yonce has him on
He was completely out of order @ the grammys- She has the right to thank whoever the hell she wants and if he had a problem with it he should have done the [professional thing) and handled it away from the stage.
I like that she wasn’t having it though- audacity of him.
No2: She is a good gurl and there is nothing wrong with this story if anything it’s alot less tragic then the other bull***** shallowness that follows page after page on the site.
@ Don’t mind me
LOL! I agree with every word you wrote… Jay-Z was an *****hole at the grammys!…and nothing is wrong with what her father is saying…
Her father just wants to embarr***** her! I bet anything that the magazine did not track him down. He tracked them down for a quick buck and a story to make his daughter embarr*****ed enough to get some cash out of her… Don’t be fooled by this story.
She favors her Dad
I didn’t think Jay was rude- I believe people took it all wrong- It looked like he was adding humor-
hmmm. I think its kinda rude that she doesnt at least give him something. He shouldnt have to ask for anything.. but selling toys out of his nissan? Maybe she’s scared he’ll relapse.
Always if you can be a “credit” to another race then the One Drop Rule does not (I repeat, does not) apply to people with a black race mix. If you are not famous or a politician and are mixed then the “One Drop Rule” applies to people with a black race mix.
Why is that?
IS IT JUST ME OR DOES HER FATHER NOT LOOK FULLY WHITE…
for real her father look white pure white no black nothing …
i think her father is gonna ask her for money some day the all do
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