Rihanna’s inaugural Diamond Ball was a huge success last weekend but for those of that did not attend, there was apparently some drama as well. Rihanna’s alcoholic father, Ronald Fenty, was kicked out of the gala for getting drunk, even though he promised her that he had stopped drinking.
Via Daily Mail
Daily Mail Online can exclusively reveal the superstar singer has been embroiled in a heartbreaking bid to save Ronald Fenty from his drinking demons for the past year – even putting him through an expensive Malibu rehab program.
But all her hard work went up in smoke last Thursday as her star-studded charity party was reduced to farce before she even arrived.
In an exclusive chat with Ronald at his Beverly Hills hotel before he jetted out of Los Angeles, the 61-year-old spoke candidly about their spectacular bust-up, revealing how:
- Rihanna put him through a $58,000 Malibu rehab program last year to save him from jail after he was arrested during a previous visit to California
- She flies him to LA every three months for urine tests and has the mini-bar emptied before he arrives
- She has frozen out Chris Brown and ignored him at their last meeting
- He dislikes Rihanna’s best pal and constant companion Melissa Forde
- She is still single and unable to find a man
- She is NOT pregnant, despite widespread claims by magazines and websites
Rihanna had a big smile on her face as she posed with several family members at her inaugural Diamond Ball held last week in Beverly Hills. She set up the event to raise money for her Clara-Lionel Foundation charity, which is named after her beloved grandparents.
Given a six-minute introduction to the stage by the world’s biggest actor Brad Pitt, it was an event that solidified her status as its brightest young music star.
However behind her smile was a painful rift with her dad, who been ejected minutes earlier.
Ronald – who posed for red carpet photos with Rihanna’s mum Monica before he was told to leave – said: ‘I had Johnny Walker Black. I had two doubles man and tripped over a chair.
‘I had been on the [red] carpet for the pictures, I meet a couple of famous people I knew go and talked with them, and then somebody left a chair and I stepped back and fell over, I saw my ex (Monica) look up, and within a few minutes after the picture was taken, security came up and said “we’re taking you home”.
‘I said “but I haven’t seen my daughter yet”… and they said “don’t matter man”.
‘They said “please do not make a scene it will reflect on your daughter”.’
Rihanna was yet to arrive at the venue and Ronald suspects it was her mother who spotted him drinking and had him removed.
Sadly he added: ‘When I got back I picked up a bottle of Johnny Walker Black, had a couple and went to sleep.’
You can read the rest on Daily Mail’s site. So sad.