This past June, the Global Gillette razor company awarded R&B/pop singer Rihanna the 2007 Celebrity Legs of a Goddess award, and soon thereafter paid to have them insured for a million dollars. It seems as if that was good foresight on the behalf of Gillette, as it seems that the singer (who has been recently enjoying much commercial success thanks to her insufferable, yet incredibly catchy song “Umbrella” and had similar success last year with the Soft Cell-aping “S.O.S.”) has been spotted this week in Los Angeles, walking around on crutches after suffering an apparent injury.
Photographs taken of the 19-year-old Barbados native show her not only hobbling about but also sporting a rather large bandage around her right foot and ankle. While we’re not quite sure if the entire leg (foot and all) is covered by the insurance or if it’s just between the hip and ankle, but either way, it appears as if she’ll be fine, and no major bones were broken. Which begs the question: what exactly happened?
After being blown up by several media outlets (most of them smutty, but I guess I can’t talk), a member of Rihanna’s management agency told reporters that the singer had run into a chair.
Yes, she ran into a chair.
No, not like this guy. The chair was just sitting there… and she walked into it.
Apparently, she was one day into her vacation when the injury occurred, and while alcohol has neither been ruled out nor confirmed as a culprit, I’d bet Jonathan Widro’s entire life savings that she didn’t do this while sober. Stubbing a toe in the middle of the night while getting up to take a piss is one thing, but a collision necessitating a large bandage and “medical boot” (as her management said) is more than a stub. That’s a complete and utter wipe out. Too bad the same person who caught this footage wasn’t around for the Rihanna incident. No word on if it was a folding chair, or maybe something a little nicer, like the Ethan Allen Georgian Court cherry wood Queen Anne side chair, perhaps? Calls to Rihanna’s reps regarding this question were not immediately returned.
The boot will be off in two weeks, though the humilation may take a bit longer to shed.
