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Excerpts From Rihanna's Rolling Stone Cover Story

The pop singer on her first kiss, her family and more
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Right is Right, Wrong is Wrong

Rihanna and her father Ronald Fenty at her album launch in Barbados, April, 22, 2006

Rihanna says that if it weren't for singing she might have been a psychologist, and she certainly has a deep sense of empathy. "I actually feel really bad for my father," she says. He was abused too – he got beat up by his stepdad when he was young. He has resentment toward women, because he felt like his mom never protected him, and unfortunately, my mother was the victim of that. I'm not giving him excuses. Right is right and wrong is wrong. I still blame him. But I understand the source."

 

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