{"id":725899,"date":"2026-06-09T20:20:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-09T20:20:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/725899\/"},"modified":"2026-06-09T20:20:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-09T20:20:08","slug":"rihanna-receives-gift-of-mohawk-beadwork-from-air-canada-flight-attendant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/725899\/","title":{"rendered":"Rihanna receives gift of Mohawk beadwork from Air Canada flight attendant"},"content":{"rendered":"

Open this photo in gallery:<\/a><\/p>\n

Air Canada flight attendant Lily Kahnerahtiio Dailleboust with singer Rihanna on a flight on June 1.The Canadian Press<\/p>\n

An Air Canada Express flight attendant got a thrill last week when she gifted pop superstar Rihanna a beaded lanyard from her Mohawk community south of Montreal.<\/p>\n

Lily Dailleboust says the encounter happened during a June 1 flight from Toronto to Montreal when she approached Rihanna\u2019s bodyguard and asked if she could give the singer a present.<\/p>\n

The flight attendant says Rihanna accepted, and she gave her a beaded key chain lanyard from a store in her community of Kahnawake.<\/p>\n

She says she felt an instant connection with the singer, who then offered to take photos and sign autographs with the crew.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

The two filmed a video together in which Rihanna thanks Dailleboust for the present and asks how to say \u2018thank you\u2019 in Mohawk.<\/p>\n

The flight attendant says she\u2019s used to seeing celebrities on her flights but that meeting Rihanna stands out as a career highlight so far.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Open this photo in gallery: Air Canada flight attendant Lily Kahnerahtiio Dailleboust with singer Rihanna on a flight…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":725900,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[901,888,902,879,877,903,49,48,876,895,896,891,878,875,361,46,549,75,295,894,887,914,880,881,893,889,890,884,904,885,909,910,912,907,911,905,908,882,898,899,714,897,906,865,61,900,892,886,883,913],"class_list":["post-725899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-alberta","tag-arts-news","tag-bc","tag-breaking-news","tag-breaking-news-video","tag-british-columbia","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-canada-news","tag-canada-sports","tag-canada-sports-news","tag-canada-trafficcanada-weather","tag-canadian-breaking-news","tag-canadian-news","tag-celebrities","tag-economy","tag-education","tag-entertainment","tag-environment","tag-federal-government","tag-foreign-news","tag-globe-and-mail","tag-globe-and-mail-breaking-news","tag-globe-and-mail-canada-news","tag-government","tag-life-news","tag-lifestyle","tag-local-news","tag-manitoba","tag-national-news","tag-new-brunswick","tag-newfoundland-and-labrador","tag-northwest-territories","tag-nova-scotia","tag-nunavut","tag-ontario","tag-pei","tag-photos","tag-political-news","tag-political-opinion","tag-politics","tag-politics-news","tag-quebec","tag-sports-news","tag-technology","tag-travel","tag-trudeau","tag-us-news","tag-world-news","tag-yukon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/725899","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=725899"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/725899\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/725900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=725899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=725899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=725899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}