Lionel Ricci looked back as he ascended to fame and how she changed the way he saw love and relationships.
In his new notes trulyThe 76 -year -old Grammy Prize winner and American Idol judge admitted that moving in marriage while living in Hollywood was not like the life he knew in Alabama.
“When I was starting in Los Angeles, my first reaction was,” How stupid these people are? They marry and launch every week. ”
“This does not mean that love was not involved. It is just a star and you have a long set of candidates who want to have the next and only.”
Richie, who married his college girlfriend, Brenda Harvey, in 1975 before the start of his career, said that the contrast between Tuski and Los Angeles was open.
“In Tuskegee, if you met someone at a party, all you had to say is,” I am married, and the woman will be, “Oh, sorry, I didn’t know, and I go back away,” he remembered.
“Even before hitting songs, I was somewhere in Los Angeles and she was a girl hitting me, and I said politely,” I am sorry, but I must tell you that I am married. “I came back with a question I did not expect.
The singer revealed that fame in the end changed the way he heard and trusted the phrase “I love you.”
“In the works of fame and entertainment,” I love you “loses its magic of fasting.”
“The part I hated more than more is that this word that I use as a religion can become a terrible phrase. When I write,“ I love you, ”and when someone plays this record, this is an emotional moment. When a man or a woman says,“ I love you, after everything, “this is an emotional moment.”
But over time, he said that he began to question the sincerity of these words, even when writing the songs of love.
“Wonderful as I was, it took some time to see that everyone who says” I love you “to you when you are famous, this is something they say, and not something they feel.”
His marriage to Harvey ended in 1993 after an accident that was widely published, which included Diane Alexander, the woman who later became his second wife.
This marriage ended in 2004, and Richie is now in a long -term relationship with Lisa Barigi.
If we look back, he admits that he is not ready for love in the spotlight.
“They do not teach you in Alabama how to tell the real person from the fake. My notes were through the lens of a permanent university student. I imagined how others had to feel after falling for temptation but I thought I was fortified. Or I was hoping to be.”
Richie notes trulyWhere it opens around fame, family and love, it is now where the books are sold.