Playwright Defends Rihanna, Releases Text Messages She Got Slammed For Sending

Most know it's common courtesy to silence or turn off your phone during a Broadway show. So it's no shock that when Rihanna attended a show, play-goers were floored that the singer didn't extend the same courtesy. But playwright Jeremy O. Harris isn't having it.

Harris, the mastermind behind "Slave Play," the show Rihanna attended, set the record straight during a Q&A on Wednesday.

"You guys want to know what she texted during the play?" Harris said, according to Page Six. "Cuz I saw white people writing, 'Why was Rihanna texting during Jeremy’s play?' … You guys will not drag my queen for being nice to me."

The 30-year-old proceeded to read some of the texts, "She texted me at 8:51 p.m., 'wtffffffffffffff?' And then at 8:57, she said, 'Oh my God, you’re epic.' And then I responded, literally crying, 'How dare you?'"

"And then at 10:24, she said, 'Am I looking at an actual [expletive] right now?'" he continued. (The text was in reference to a full-frontal scene in the show.)

“I was literally back there in the mezzanine, and there were multiple times I would hear Rihanna — and only Rihanna — laughing," Harris said. "And I wept, just knowing that Rihanna thought my play was funny.”

So there you have it. Rihanna wasn't being rude, she was simply being a supportive friend.

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