The relationship between the Barbados beauty and her estranged father worsened when he spoke to the media regarding her assault at the hands of Chris Brown in February 2009.
Her father, former drug addict Ronald Fenty, 57, said: ' saw her twice before Christmas and she came to see me on Christmas Day. She showered me with gifts, a lot of stuff, many shirts and cologne. She's always really generous.'
He added: 'Maybe we're not as close as we were when she was growing up here and was at school. But we are blood, we do not stay angry and we are friends again.'
The superstar originally fell out with her father in 2008 when he turned up drunk to one of her performances and trashed her tour bus. Ronald, who now claims to have given up alcohol, admits he was not surprised by how his daughter treated him after the event.
He explained to the Daily Mirror: 'We did have a disagreement about the drinking on the tour. I got plastered on the tour bus. I can drink rum or beer but vodka does not like me or gin. She blasted me for that she was always lippy from her small days. I was picked up from the hotel in the morning and I was just shuttled to the airport.'
Rihanna has spoken before about her father ruining her childhood with his drug problems. He split from her mother when she was 14.
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