'I Just Feel Like I Can Do Any Part Of Life By His Side': Rihanna Explains How A$AP Rocky Made It Out Of The Friend Zone

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Rihanna shared in Vogue‘s May cover story about pregnancy, love and fashion, from her shunning of maternity wear to her cravings for tangerine with salt and chocolate-covered donuts, we’re stuck on her love story with A$AP Rocky.

We never thought we’d see the day that she’d talk openly and in such a romantic way about any man, but the pop icon, billionaire businesswoman and mommy-to-be is in love, y’all.

She’s just as surprised to have found it with A$AP as others are. “People don’t get out of the friend zone very easily with me,” she told the magazine, as the two were former tour mates and friends who collaborated on her Fenty Skin brand. “I certainly took a while to get over how much I know him and how much he knows me, because we also know how much trouble we can land each other in.” Rihanna brought up the time they performed at the VMAs together in 2012 and the rapper pulled a brash move. “He grabbed my a– on stage.

That was not part of the rehearsal!” she recalled. “I was like, What are you doing!?” While she lightly pushed him away on stage, she chose not to harp on the moment. “My manager was like, Oh, God, she must like this guy a little bit.