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Lionel Richie may have had three times more women.
The Grammy Award winner and 76-year-old American idol judge will be outspoken in his new memoir with a new memoir that shows pressures of fame and love and marriage aren’t always well mixed with Hollywood.
“When I was getting off to a start in LA, my first response was, ‘How stupid are these people? They get married and divorced every week,” wrote Richie. “That’s not to say that love wasn’t involved. That means you’re a star and you have a long line of candidates who want to be the only one next.”
For Richie, who married his girlfriend Brenda Harvey at Tuskegee University College in 1975, navigating the Hollywood Shuffle before his career began was a world away from the life he once knew.
“In Tuskegee, all you had to say when you meet someone at a party is, “I’m married,” and the woman comes back saying, ‘Oh, sorry, I didn’t know,'” he said. That wasn’t the case in California.
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“Even before the hits, I was out somewhere in LA, and a girl was bumping into me. I politely said, ‘I’m sorry, but I have to let you know I’m married,'” he recalled. “She came back with a question I didn’t expect. ‘Is she with you?’
In that example, Richie wrote that he hadn’t taken the food and replied, “That’s flattering, but wait, wait now!”
As Richie explained in the book, “In the business of fame and entertainment, “I Love You” loses magic quickly. The part I hate most was that this word I use as my religion could be a disposable phrase.
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Star continued. “As I did, everyone who says, when you’re famous, “I love you” is what they say, not what they feel.
Richie and his first wife divorced in 1993 and later married Richie watched and later, following the headline conflict between her and Diane Alexander.
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In hindsight, the singer who split from Alexander in 2004 and is now dating Lisa Parigi writes that when it comes to navigating marriage in the spotlight, he is a fish out of the water.
“They don’t teach us how to convey real people from fakes in Alabama. My observations were through the lens of a permanent college student. I imagined how others had to feel after falling into temptation, but I thought I was immune.
Truly, Lionel Richie has made it available where the book is for sale.
