Before she returns to the U.S. to prep for her Diamond Ball charity event on Sept. 13, Rihanna’s spending some time with her folks and other loved ones in the Caribbean. The singer recently traveled to what fans believe was Cuba to work on a project titled “Guava Island” with Childish Gambino, who will perform at this year’s Diamond Ball. This week, she seems to have done some island hopping over to her native Barbados. She shared a handful of photos on Instagram, including a pair of glowing, makeup-free pics, from her family hangs this week. This one, which shows Riri hugging her mom, Monika, and father, Ronald, tight, she captioned simply, “home.” TMZ point out it wasn’t long ago that the singer told Oprah Winfrey about the troubled nature of her relationship with her dad, who abused her mom when she was growing up. She connected her own experience being beaten by — and eventually forgiving — Chris Brown to coming to terms with the different treatment her father afforded her and her mother.
