Rihanna shows AJ Hammer how to pronounce her name

AJ

hammer

welcome to the SHOWBIZ TONIGHT podcast this is where we delve into Hollywood's biggest stories tonight

rihanna

is getting real now I met Rihanna in 2005, it was right when people were starting to know her

name

so while they celebrated her as a once 100 most influential people I had to ask Rihanna to verify that her

name

is in fact

pronounce

d Rihanna look at you all deserted look at you the first time you and I met summer of 2005 everyone knew it was pon de replay that you came to my summer camp for children with HIV, yes, and we spent a day together.

Wow, how are you? And it's good to see you. This was all literally years later because I think it was the last time you thought about it because I have a clear memory of that day, but when you think about that time in your life, what do you miss most about that time in your life? Hmm, probably less paparazzi, a little more privacy, you know, I guess what I really meant was simplicity in an innocence, to be sure, there's definitely a simplicity because there weren't many people who knew about me and I guess that It really helped me stay away from being the center of attention, you know, and I enjoyed being private with myself after a while I didn't appreciate people having a misperception of me, so I started to, you know, get involved in Things like social media and talking to my fans one on one that way, you know, I did a little bit behind the scenes.

Now I feed them and from time to time I give them a little more information about the person I am. I think it's important for people to know that it's not good to have the freedom of that voice and you and I before I let you do it. I'm going to set the record straight about something that happens to me in fights with people all the time when you introduced yourself to me all those years ago because you almost didn't expect people to know who you were and you said Rihanna. I knew it with the the question is Rihanna, thank you but no, no, yes, that's what we need, yes, that's always right, whatever it is.

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