{"id":915559,"date":"2026-10-04T07:26:13","date_gmt":"2026-10-04T07:26:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/915559\/"},"modified":"2026-10-04T07:26:13","modified_gmt":"2026-10-04T07:26:13","slug":"rihannas-scathing-one-word-reply-after-influencer-claims-she-was-late-to-paris-fashion-week-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/915559\/","title":{"rendered":"Rihanna\u2019s scathing one-word reply after influencer claims she was late to Paris Fashion Week event"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An online feud appears to have broken out between popstar <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nine.com.au\/lifestyle\/fashion-beauty\/rihanna-questions-regrets-past-style-decisions-20240420-p5ono3.html\" class=\"sc-iRgEWu hHENWX\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Rihanna<\/a> and EJ Johnson, the son of basketball legend <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nine.com.au\/person\/magic-johnson-25zj\" class=\"sc-iRgEWu hHENWX\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Earvin \u201cMagic\u201d Johnson<\/a> and his wife Cookie Johnson.<\/p>\n<p>Shade was thrown by influencer and reality star Johnson, 34, after Rihanna, 38, allegedly rocked up late to a Dior show at Paris Fashion Week on Tuesday, which spurred him on to make a video on his Instagram page.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Rihanna attends the 2026 Met Gala celebrating &quot;Costume Art&quot; at the Metropolitan Museum of Art on May 04, 2026 in New York City. \" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/a01c4ea457c067c8c7bea672f01c1869bd1d1355.jpeg\"  width=\"100%\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"_0b53bae146db0b62 _7475dd3391ee1518\" style=\"--text-color:var(--color-text-secondary)\">Rihanna gave a one-word response to a video EJ featured in to make her feelings clear.\u00a0Getty Images for The Met Museum\/<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The show itself was beautiful. It did start an hour late because Rihanna was late, and you know, like, we didn\u2019t care to wait for her,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Just days later, Rihanna decided to give a one-word response on a different video which EJ featured in.<\/p>\n<p>Only this time, he wasn\u2019t the one who posted it \u2013 it was news outlet The Hollywood Fix on Instagram, who shared the awkward moment EJ was blocked from entering his hotel after posing for paparazzi.<\/p>\n<p>One comment that stood out underneath was from Rihanna herself, which simply read: &#8220;Damn.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The response racked up over 25,000 likes, with many taking to the comments section to react.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Karma for saying they had to wait for you RiRi, the door is closed!&#8221; one wrote, while another said: &#8220;I spat my water out.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou\u2019re entering your new clap back era on social media,\u201d another wrote.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA - MAY 13: EJ Johnson attends 2027 Dior Cruise Show at Los Angeles County Museum of Art on May 13, 2026 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Emma McIntyre\/Getty Images)\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/f83957e5ecd77e322f17219d21d5e3cea8663aa9daa2036d7383bfa6d8e309b3.jpeg\"  width=\"100%\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"_0b53bae146db0b62 _7475dd3391ee1518\" style=\"--text-color:var(--color-text-secondary)\">EJ had slammed Rihanna for being late to the Dior event.\u00a0Getty<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Rihanna shared a one-word response to what happened.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/43c52979bc8bd028ea73c1e3054614be35865e74e2f59882a654199cef3d044c.png\"  width=\"100%\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"_0b53bae146db0b62 _7475dd3391ee1518\" style=\"--text-color:var(--color-text-secondary)\">Rihanna shared a one-word response to what happened.\u00a0Rihanna shared a one-word response to what happened.<\/p>\n<p>Despite apparently being late, Rihanna made a glamorous arrival to the Dior Womenswear Spring\/Summer 2027 show in a black dress complemented by heels and sunglasses.<\/p>\n<p>She wore her hair in stylish up-do at the event, which was also attended by a string of celebrities including actresses Jennifer Lawrence and Anya Taylor-Joy.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\": Rihanna attends the Christian Dior Womenswear Spring\/Summer 2027 show as part of Paris Fashion Week on September 29, 2026 in Paris, France. (Photo by Arnold Jerocki\/Getty Images for Dior)\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/a518e55e629f764c8c4c3f95740d011b9c70b83db28ef8f44b5834a5a3e8f178.jpeg\"  width=\"100%\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"_0b53bae146db0b62 _7475dd3391ee1518\" style=\"--text-color:var(--color-text-secondary)\">Rihanna was a vision as she arrived at the Christian Dior Womenswear Spring\/Summer 2027 show as part of Paris Fashion Week on September 29.\u00a0Getty<\/p>\n<p>She shares <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nine.com.au\/entertainment\/celebrity\/rihanna-asap-rocky-welcome-third-child-reveal-name-gender-20250925-p5pptx.html\" class=\"sc-iRgEWu hHENWX\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">three children with her long-term partner A$AP Rocky;<\/a> RZA, four, Riot, three, and Rocki, one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An online feud appears to have broken out between popstar Rihanna and EJ Johnson, the son of basketball&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":915560,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[64,63,134],"class_list":["post-915559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/915559","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=915559"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/915559\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/915560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=915559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=915559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=915559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}