Saturday, July 05, 2025

Rita Ora Shuts Down Becky with the Good Hair Rumors


Nine years ago former Roc Nation recording artist, Rita Ora, famously put herself smack dab in the middle of the "Becky with the good hair," Jay Z cheating controversy from Beyoncé's Lemonade album, after wearing a bra with lemons stitched on it and a chain with a "J" charm shortly after the album release [click here if you missed that]. 

Rita claims Beyoncé never believed the rumors and protected her at the time...

Speaking on Davina McCall's Begin Again podcast, Rita explained: 'Behind closed doors, [Beyonce] is literally my fairy godmother, she was my protector - that's what's insane because there was nothing but love.
'And, you know, again, being signed to Jay-Z, her husband, she being my biggest inspiration, she came to my first show in New York at The Box and I sang Say My Name in front of Beyonce when I was 21.'
Rita admitted she was 'genuinely' upset and 'confused' by the storm because Beyonce is a 'big sister' who has always 'looked after' her in the industry.
The For You hitmaker revealed she still sees Beyonce often to this day as she doubled down on her denial that she was 'Becky'.
'It wasn't real,' Rita insisted, before jokingly adding: 'I wish I had good hair!'
'None of that was real. That was the first time I experienced what it means to be in a messy situation, I guess,' she added.
Rita - who has been married to Taika Waititi since 2022 - firmly put the rumours to bed by taking a selfie with Beyonce at the 2016 Met Gala.
'Then it was gone,' she added. 'Because there was never anything there in the first place.'

7 comments:

Jcee said...

Gurl you stirred the pot and filed the fire! But let’s be real there prolly was never a Becky with good hair it was to get ppl going and buy the album and blow the song up

Anonymous said...

She protected you all right. Protected your ah right out of that Roc Nation contract.

Anonymous said...

She's the one they hired to replace Rihanna when she went back to Chris Brown after he beat her up. How did that work out for them?

Anonymous said...

RO is married to some old Yt man. Why is she bringing this old Tea up now? Nobody cares about your wise tells of no importance. LOLO

Anonymous said...

Stop playing. Rita was one of many Beckys in Beyonce's and JayZ's life.

Anonymous said...

Why are we still talking about this

Anonymous said...

@3:07 Rita is YT. She copies blk culture but she is not mixed at all, even in the slightest. She got backlas one it came out that she was fully YT catfishing us. Just straight YT no chaser so her marrying that older yt man is of no surprise or consequence, she married one of her own. 😒

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