Rihanna gave up drinking in 2024.
On Wednesday (January 1), the 36-year-old singer and entrepreneur shared a video of himself ringing in the New Year with friends on social media. In the video, Ri reveals she’s been sober for the past 12 months as she celebrates the countdown to 2025 and holds up her phone to capture the iconic drop in New York’s Times Square.
“You guys, I haven’t had a drink in a whole year,” Rihanna proudly told her 150 million Instagram followers as the clock struck midnight. “I haven’t had a drink in a whole year.”
The brief clip shows the “Diamonds” singer enjoying a low-key New Year’s Eve celebration, wearing a casual gray gown and surrounded by a group of friends who were holding drinks to help count down. Ri welcomed the New Year with her boyfriend A$AP Rocky in New York. people Report. The couple has two sons: 2-year-old RZA and 1-year-old Riot.
“New year, new me,” she wrote on her IG post.
In another Instagram video, Rihanna hangs out with friends while using Fenty Hair shampoo to properly clean her extensions. “You owe me a new bottle of wine!” she said jokingly to her friends. “For a stinky track!” she captioned the post: “De Dirt!!! We’re stepping into 2025 Clean Baby! 1 track at a time! Also telling @mdollas11 to stay out of my bathroom!
In late December, Rihanna surprised fans with an impromptu visit to Girls Love Karaoke in Manhattan, where she took the stage to perform “Needed Me” and “Sex With Me” from her 2016 album. be opposed to. In fan-filmed footage of the event, the “Work” hitmaker can be heard telling the excited crowd that she only has about five minutes left and joking that her “battery” is “going to run out.”
Check out Rihanna’s 2025 New Year celebration post on Instagram below.
