Rihanna opens up about her love life
You know how Rihanna’s been dating a lot of guys? That’s not your imagination: She says she hasn’t had an official boyfriend since she got back together briefly with Chris Brown in 2012.
“I haven’t been having sex or even really seeing anybody,” she says, “because I don’t want to wake up the next day feeling guilty.”
Not to say she doesn’t want to have sex. After all, the 27-year-old singer tells Vanity Fair in its November edition, she’s human.
“But what am I going to do — just find the first random cute dude that I think is going to be a great ride for the night and then tomorrow I wake up feeling empty and hollow? He has a great story and I’m like ... what am I doing? I can’t do it to myself. I cannot. It has a little bit to do with fame and a lot to do with the woman that I am. And that saves me.”
Former Dodger Matt Kemp was, indeed, her steady for a while, but then the paparazzi got in there.
“[W]e were just three months in and I liked his vibe, he was a good guy, and then paparazzi got us on vacation in Mexico,” she recalls. “He handled it well; I didn’t. I got so uncomfortable because now what? He’s not even able to be seen with [another] girl, because I’m dragged back into headlines that say he’s cheating on me, and I don’t even [really] know this guy. Some guys.... I don’t even have their number. You would not even believe it. I’m serious, hand to God.”
Another hand-to-God revelation: “I literally dream about buying my own groceries.... Because it is something that is real and normal.”
Artists, she said, agree to make music but don’t sign on to be perfect. Perhaps that’s why she has a bit of sympathy, maybe even admiration, for Rachel Dolezal, the NAACP executive who became Internetfamous, or at least notorious, when it came to light that she was pretending to be black, even though she was white.
“I think she was a bit of a hero, because she kind of flipped on society a little bit,” Rihanna says. “Is it such a horrible thing that she pretended to be black? Black is a great thing, and I think she legit changed people’s perspective a bit and woke people up.”