Rihanna is opening up about her late father as she remembers his parenting style and how she’s used it as inspiration with her own children.
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As we previously shared, Rihanna, born Robyn Fenty, sadly lost her father in late May. Ronald Fenty was 70 years old. His passing was first reported by Starcom Network News, a prominent radio outlet based in Rihanna’s homeland, Barbados. The outlet reported that Ronald Fenty died in the early morning of May 31.
Nearly a month later, it was reported by TMZ that the music and beauty mogul’s father died from acute respiratory failure, pancreatic cancer, and aspiration pneumonia, which is a bacterial lung infection.
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TMZ, who had obtained Ronald Fenty’s death certificate, also reported that the document listed acute renal failure and acute tubular necrosis. Both of these illnesses involve extensive kidney damage. The outlet further reported that Ronald Fenty passed away at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles.
According to the outlet, Rihanna and her father held a rocky relationship through the years. Reportedly, they were estranged for a long period of time before they finally reconciled as father and daughter. In February 2023, Ronald Fenty told TMZ that he was super excited about his daughter and boyfriend A$AP Rocky expecting their second child together. He said he was eager to be a part of the baby’s life.
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Rihanna has kept relatively quiet about her father’s passing, even as she recently returned to Barbados for his homegoing.
In the midst of losing a loved one, she has been keeping busy as a working mom of almost 3. Amid her ongoing press run for new movie ‘Smurfs,’ she spoke with Entertainment Tonight about her new flick, mom life, and how she’s been inspired by her father’s parenting style.
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While speaking with Entertainment Tonight’s Kevin Frazier, Rihanna talked about her two boys. She shared how she wants them to be raised how her father raised her: outside, less technology. She said:
“Listen, I’ve always dreamed of what type of grandfather he would be to them because of the favorite parts of my dad, you know? I think it prepared me for — I mean, having two boys, really, truly. Like, the adventurous side of me, the outside side of me, the daredevil…it’s how I want to raise them. And I want them to be outside and be in nature. No tablet babies. [He] for sure [inspired all of that]. That was the funnest part of my life, my childhood. Just running around outside barefoot, free. You don’t get to do that anymore.”
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