*In February 2003, months earlier than she soared to superstardom alongside her greatest buddy Paris Hilton within the actuality sequence “The Easy Life,” Nicole Richie was arrested for heroin possession after it was present in her Mercedes-Benz. The information was devastating for her mother and father, Lionel and Brenda Richie, and her Grammy profitable father defined how he was ready to make use of the drug-related deaths of three of his associates and two of Nicole’s associates to snap her out of complacency.
“I went to her and I mentioned, ‘Once I was rising up I misplaced three associates, they had been the hippest associates I ever knew in life,” Lionel recalled in a previous interview with Piers Morgan. “I mentioned, ‘It’s going to occur to your era. I don’t need you to be in that record of three.’ Three months later her buddy died of an overdose and I went again to her and really quietly, I mentioned, ‘I’m sorry to listen to that, that’s one.’ And positive sufficient, one yr later the second died and I mentioned, ‘That’s two’ and I bought a telephone name and he or she mentioned, ‘Dad I need assistance, I don’t need to be the third one.’”
In keeping with ILoveOldSchoolMusic.com, Lionel was about to begin an enormous tour when Nicole reached out to him for assist.
“I mentioned [to Nicole], ‘I’m with you’ and I canceled [my] tour. I mentioned, ‘Me and your mom [Brenda Richie]’ — who didn’t get alongside that properly — ‘Me and your mom are checking into rehab with you,” Lionel mentioned.
In a subsequent Folks Journal interview, Nicole defined how she grew to become hooked on medicine.
“I bought a lot so quick that nothing actually excited me anymore,” she mentioned. “I sort of took issues into my very own arms and was creating drama in a really harmful approach. I feel I used to be simply bored, and I had seen every thing – particularly if you’re younger, you simply need extra. At 18 I had simply been doing plenty of cocaine. …[Now] I’m pleased for the issues I’ve completed. I’m pleased I’m not in that state anymore.”
Lionel Richie advised Piers Morgan that he at all times thought {that a} good father was being a supplier, and that his performances and excursions had been offering assist. However after experiencing Nicole’s drug dependence, he confessed “I feel I wasn’t dad.”
However Nicole mentioned of her dad in an interview: “I by no means blamed him. I feel he blamed himself. It was very humble of my dad to return ahead and say, ‘I made a mistake.’ I really like him for that.”
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