Rihanna hits back at Liz Jones' "Posionous Pop Princess" Daily Mail article in Instagram rant
Rihanna has taken to Instagram to vent her frustrations at Daily Mail columnist Liz Jones who labelled her a ‘poisonous pop princess’ and ‘toxic’ in a recent article.
The lengthy post attacks Jones for calling the Bajan star a bad role model and criticising her dress sense, image and personal life choices. In her article Jones takes issue with the pop star's series of Twitter pictures from this weekend featuring Rihanna smoking marijuana and her rekindled romance with Chris Brown after he was convicted of assault.
She writes: “While Rihanna knows when to tone it down in order to pull in advertising deals and keep her record label sweet the message she’s sending to her young fans, through explicit lyrics, vile dance moves and pictures on Twitter, is utterly toxic.”
In the post, which was accompanied by an unflattering photo of Jones, Rihanna wrote: “If you sincerely wanna help little girls get more than their own parents do, here’s a toxic tip: don’t be amateur with your articles, you sound bitter! What’s all this about hair and nails and costumes and tattoos??...That s**t ain’t clever!!! That s**t ain’t journalism! That’s a sad sloppy menopausal mess!!!”
Rihanna then continued: “Nobody over here acts like they’re perfect! I don’t pretend that I’m like you, I just live…My life!!”
She added that being a role model was “not a position or title that I have ever campaigned for”.
Rihanna’s post concluded: “Toxic was cute, Poisonous Pop Princess had a nice ring to it, just a lil wordy!” and signed off with the hashtag #ElizabethAnnJones, which proceeded to trend on social media networks worldwide.
Back in February, Rihanna took to Twitter to address similar stories and their perception of her being a role model.