"I cried hard for 10 minutes… I wanted to punch somebody": Rihanna describes the breakdown that followed her recent illness (video)

"I cried hard for 10 minutes… I wanted to punch somebody": Rihanna describes the breakdown that followed her recent illness (video)

Rihanna has revealed that she had an exhausted, emotional breakdown while recording her latest album at the end of last year, which led to a furious crying session in her hotel room. The star opened up about the dramatic night â€" which took place after she was rushed to hospital and hooked up to an IV drip in Sweden â€" in a new video interview that came out last night.

Spookily, this video interview â€" filmed months ago â€" was released as Rihanna was going through a similar experience in New York. On Monday night, Rihanna tweeted a picture of herself connected to a drip in hospital, with the singer reportedly being treated for ‘exhaustion and dehydration’.

And now Rihanna has explained the trauma she experienced the last time she fell ill in November â€" which led t o her being rushed to hospital and cancelling a tour date in Sweden.

Rihanna tweeted this picture of her arm last November

And Rihanna tweeted a similar shot of herself on Monday night after the Met ball

 

In this new interview titled ‘Road To Talk That Talk’ â€" recorded at the beginning of the year â€" Rihanna was asked how hard she worked on her sixth album.

She said: “It was the best sh*t ever, it was some rock star sh*t. This is the craziest schedule I’ve ever been on in my entire life.

“One morning I woke up and started crying so hard. I finally just got to my bed from the IV [drip] and I was just like, ‘Good I can actually get to sleep tonight’ because we stayed up [all night’ and I finished [the album] at 5pm the day before.

“So now I’m like ‘One good night of rest.’ I get in bed and it must have been two hours in before my phone started going off.”

Rihanna was agitated as she told the emotional story

Rihanna doesn't normally cry, but she had reached a 'dead end'

 

Rihanna explained that she then flew into a brief, furious rage, because her management weren’t respecting the fact she she’d just been hooked up to a drip as she recovered from a serious bout of the flu.

The 24 year old said: “I was so frustrated I kept ignoring the phone. Every time it would go off but every time I would ignore it. But it would be another burden on my shoulders ‘cause I know it has to get done.”

“I know I’m sick but I’m the only person who can get it done so it was so frustrating so I was angry. I was so angry, I was so overwhelmed that I was sick it felt crazy.

“I started crying. I cried for 10 minutes really, really hard in my pillow. It was aggressive. I don’t cry loads. If I cry it’s because I’m very angry and I can’t do anything about it, because I’ve run into a dead end that’s when the tears would come down. But this time I needed to hear it, I almost wanted to punch somebody.”

Rihanna said the trauma made the album worth it

 

But after a good 10 minute cry, Rihanna realised that no one else was able to do her job, so she “got up, showered and started to work”.

She said: “I thought, ‘they don’t have a choice. I’m the only person they can get answers from and there was nothing I could do about it’.

“But I was so overwhelmed and the emails coming in were so inconsiderate. Everything that was going on with me [with the drip] was complete disregard with everything that had just happened prior.”

Her gobby mate in the background adds: “She was still bleeding from the IV and it was all just swiped. She was ill and not a day of rest. Hooked up to an IV and she was still working.”

That's a large glass of... apple juice

 

But this story has a happy ending (sort of), with Rihanna saying that she was glad she went through the difficult times, because it made the album Talk That Talk worth it.

She explained: “When I got the copies in my hand, it was so worth it. I would never take it back. At times I wished things could have been different and easier but then I didn’t really care when I got the album. The fact it was so difficult, the album feels so much better.”

Watch the video of Rihanna's interview below (the above part is at the nine minute point if you haven't got all day to stare at her nice face)...

 

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