A household man! Lionel Richie could be recognized worldwide for his musical success, however to his three kids, he’s simply dad.
The American Idol decide has been married twice — to Brenda Harvey and Diane Alexander — and is the daddy of three youngsters: Nicole Richie, Miles Brockman Richie and Sofia Richie.
Throughout his first marriage to Harvey, which lasted for practically 18 years earlier than its 1993 finish, Lionel turned a father when the then-couple adopted Nicole. Whereas the “Hey” crooner and Harvey turned The Easy Life alum’s guardians in 1983 (when she was 2 years outdated), they didn’t legally undertake her till she was 9.
“I believe you modified my life a terrific deal by way of softening my coronary heart, as a result of all the things as much as that time was about songwriting and the enterprise and touring,” Lionel instructed his eldest daughter throughout a HuffPost interview printed in December 2020. “Swiftly I discovered one thing that I might really fall in love with that was by no means going to depart me. How about that?”
The “Dancing on the Ceiling” singer’s coronary heart expanded two extra occasions when he and then-wife Alexander welcomed son Miles and daughter Sofia in 1994 and 1998, respectively.
When Lionel was honored with a foot and handprint ceremony on Hollywood Boulevard, all three of his youngsters have been by his aspect.
“They’ve carried out a lot to attempt to kill me,” the musician joked to Leisure Tonight in March 2018. “However to have them right here? [All] I’ve heard all day was, ‘Dad, we’re so pleased with you! Dad, we’re so pleased with you!’ You already know, meaning all the things to a mother or father.”
Lionel’s love, nevertheless, doesn’t cease along with his youngsters. The Academy Award winner has lengthy been supportive of his son-in-law Joel Madden, who married Nicole in December 2010. The rocker gushed over his relationship along with his father-in-law through Instagram in June 2020.
“Comfortable Birthday @lionelrichie,” Madden captioned a snap of Lionel with Nicole and their two kids, Harlow and Sparrow. “Legendary Father, Mentor and Pal, Thanks for at all times Being a rock in my life❤️.”
Practically three years later, Lionel added one other son-in-law to his brood when daughter Sofia married Elliot Grainge in April 2023.
“She spent the entire time strolling down the aisle, [saying], ‘I really like you dad, I really like you dad, I really like you dad, “ Lionel recalled to Additional in April 2023 of the second he gave his daughter away. “I am going, ‘You’re killing me. You’re killing me.’ However that’s what a dad desires to listen to. And I really like Child Lady a lot, and the household was there to root her on.”
The proud dad added: “It was a second the place, sure, I used to be letting her go, however I used to be additionally gaining a household. The household is getting big proper about now, however we’re completely happy.”
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