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When presenting on The Drew Barrymore Show, Lionel Richie quipped that his daughter Nicole’s party years nearly killed him.
Drew, 48, and Nicole, 41, each had their own high-profile party days and run-ins with the police in the late 1990s and early 2000s.
Drew has said they’ve known each other for years and are excellent friends, telling Lionel they figured things out and now knew how to have fun and ‘bring it together’.
He did, however, have a lot to say about it.
Lionel said on Drew’s talk programme this week that witnessing his daughter, Paris Hilton, and, at times, Drew get into problems was terrifying for him.
‘If I lived through that I can live through anything,’ he said.
After Drew hugged him and said they’d all gotten their partying out of their systems, Lionel said he wanted to share his account of the story.
‘You all almost killed me,’ he laughed.
‘So I’m so glad you got it out of your systems.
‘I almost cut my system off if you know what I’m saying. I mean I almost lost consciousness.’
He recalled getting texts from the police in the middle of the night telling him that Nicole had been arrested, and his first thought was, ‘What has she done now?’
Nicole was arrested after going the wrong way down a highway, according to Lionel: ‘I was thinking to myself, this isn’t possible, this can’t be right.’
Lionel pondered his time with Drew, wondering who would ‘pay him back’ for all of the medication he was taking at the time.
‘We’ll both do it,’ Drew promised him.
Lionel then detailed how he was’somewhere between meditation and medicine’ during the stressful events, and how he was looking forward to the females receiving parental retaliation from their own children.
While the singer confessed he was worried about whether they would all settle down, he added that they had all “turned out perfectly.”
During his appearance on Drew’s program, Lionel also revealed some details about his work life, confessing that one of his classic songs was written during a well-timed toilet break.
‘I’m working with Kenny Rogers, this is back in the day, and Kenny calls and says, “I want you to write a song for me”. And, of course, I wrote Lady,’ he explained.
‘He said, “Write two songs”, so I wrote one song called Goin’ Back to Alabama. When we get halfway through that song, he says, “I don’t want to sing that song. I think I want to do Lady first.
‘Now, what he didn’t know was I only had written the first verse of Lady.’
Lionel excused himself and hurried to the closest bathroom to get to work, remaining calm under duress.
He then sat in the stall and wrote the second stanza, which he stated was made easier by the fact that he was “scared to death” to fail.
The Drew Barrymore Show airs on CBS in the US.
Source My Celebrity Life.