Rita Ora is reliving the horror of being accused of being “Becky with the great hair” throughout Beyoncé‘s Lemonade period and letting us know that Queen Bey herself helped kill the rumors.
The “Physique On Me” singer was a visitor on the Start Once more podcast the place she detailed being a part of a “messy scenario” in 2016 when Bey’s Grammy-nominated magnum opus dropped.
“It wasn’t actual, after all not, completely not,” she mentioned. “I want I had good hair. It was the primary time I skilled what it means to be in a messy scenario. I used to be simply so confused. And I used to be like, ‘Why is that this taking place to me? What have I finished?’”
Ora together with designer Rachel Roy and actress Gwyneth Paltrow have been three of the ladies followers speculated have been the “Becky” Beyoncé sang about on “Sorry” from the album; nevertheless, all of them denied being linked to the couple in any method aside from friendship. Nonetheless, Rita says it was a hurtful accusation due to how shut she is to Bey however that the singer, herself, jumped in to make issues simpler for her.
“She was my protector. That’s what’s insane as a result of there was nothing however love,” she mentioned of Bey. “And, you already know, once more, being signed to Jay-Z, her husband, she being my largest inspiration. She got here to my first present in New York at The Field and I sang ‘Say My Identify’ in entrance of Beyoncé. I used to be truly genuinely upset, as a result of that’s my massive sister, protector and she or he took it upon herself to take care of me.”
The pair could be photographed collectively at that yr’s Met Gala, resulting in the loss of life of any hypothesis that Rita was the “Becky” in query.
“Once we noticed one another on the Met Gala we took a selfie and it was gone as a result of there was by no means something there within the first place,” she mentioned. “And I nonetheless see her ‘til at the present time. And she or he’s at all times been so good, and proud, and checking up on my household and associates that I’ve had since childhood, remembering their names. I imply it’s loopy.”
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