Lionel Richie Pokes Fun at Daughter

AP
Posted: 2008-06-09 12:13:52
Filed Under: TV News
SANTA MONICA, Calif. (June 9) - It's not easy raising a celebutante, Lionel Richie will tell you. The singer was accepting the "Icon" honor at Sunday night's taping of the TV Land Awards, when he get got applause and a laugh at daughter Nicole's expense.

"Forget about surviving 40 years in the music business," Lionel Richie told the audience. "Just surviving 27 years of Nicole Richie has been a struggle-and-a-half, I want to tell you. I stand here as a survivor, I want you to know, for all the parents out there."

In 2007, Nicole Richie spent 82 minutes in jail after being convicted of driving under the influence of drugs. She was arrested in December 2006 after witnesses reported seeing her Mercedes-Benz sport utility vehicle headed the wrong way on a freeway in Burbank, Calif.

Nicole, who made a name for herself on Fox's "The Simple Life" along with best friend Paris Hilton, hasn't posed for any mug shots lately. Rather, she has been spotted out and about with 3-month-old Harlow, her daughter with Good Charlotte rocker Joel Madden.

The sixth annual TV Land Awards are scheduled to air June 15 on the cable network.

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nek555 06:48:53 AM Jun 11 2008

I loved Lionel's music.. having a step-daughter is hard when he wasn't a Saint himself...but I remember Nicole's mom beat him and his girlfriend up when she caught him....way to go Lionel (NOT)...I wonder if he took any blame for Nicole's actions...He raised her, and made her home less than perfect....."You live what you learn ! Her mom is the one to feel sorry for....and "Nicole".....

blflanzardc15 04:05:10 AM Jun 11 2008

I LOVE LIONEL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

narud8080 10:46:37 PM Jun 10 2008

Hey Lionel, now that your 15 minutes are up, are you trying to cash in on your Daughter's? Bad news buddy, hers ran out a long time ago too!

littlewhitejeep 10:24:38 PM Jun 10 2008

Damn leave that girl alone

oceanluver59 08:01:00 PM Jun 10 2008

I love the Golden Girls, one of the best shows, ever! Dick Van Dyke has aged well, still looks good after all these years.

gbelter777 06:31:28 PM Jun 10 2008

roflmao

greg belter

mitierra33 03:55:09 PM Jun 10 2008

These actors are so vain. I have never been to one movie in my entire life. Why do they give awards to themselves. That is odd

rthrch502 03:53:03 PM Jun 10 2008

IT WAS A JOKE. GET A LIFE

heysonia 03:50:35 PM Jun 10 2008

Oh come on people...he was only saying it in jest. Most parents can look back after their kids are grown and straightened out and laugh about their troublesome past. Mine do. I do with my daughter. It's called 'sense of humor'!

dragonarn 03:26:14 PM Jun 10 2008

warrenpeaceonu, stupid is as stupid does. And stupid is what you is and what you does. You're obviously a devout Bush worshipper. The liberals (and I am not one) haven't done near as much damage to this country as the so called "right" has. We're in the middle of the worst administration in history and you blame the liberals, better look again, it's the conservatives that put us in the mess we are in now. We're the most hated country in the world when just eight years ago we were one of the most liked countries in the world and whose fault is that?

Uhhh, could it be that right winger, Dubya?

warrenpeaceonu 02:57:30 PM Jun 10 2008

since I'm on a roll let me add one more thing before I split. I have believed all my life that how people perceive this depends on the condition of their spiritual heart. Thank God that somehow, some way I was taught, I have had a multitude of instances where someone said something, it went right over my head, someone else even might say, "HEY, DID YOU HEAR WHAT THEY SAID TO YOU, AREN'T YOU GOING TO DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT?" and it just didn't compute to me the same way. The bible says that out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh and I've always followed up with, and the feet walketh, the eyes looketh, the hands toucheth, in other words the condition of your heart dictates what you say, do and how you perceive things.

warrenpeaceonu 02:53:50 PM Jun 10 2008

oh, and I'll ad along with that, "do as I say, but not as I do"

warrenpeaceonu 02:53:30 PM Jun 10 2008

before you know it, you liberal cry babies will have a gag order on the whole universe to where we can't say anything. And yet, you scream and holler about censorship, don't want it, want to say what YOU want to say, wear T-shirts with vulgar and disrespectful crap on it and let us say midget or retarded and you have a coronary. If anything ever convinced me that there are truly aliens from another world, it's dealing with the ones we call liberals. If wanting their cake and eating it too ever applied, it certainly applies to them.

traji 02:33:40 PM Jun 10 2008

Its just a joke. Nothing demeaning meant.

ninteeninsobe 01:45:48 PM Jun 10 2008

I don't think he meant it in a demeaning or condescending way. He made a joke about how difficult it is raising a child, the same thing any parent does at their child's bar/bat mitzvah, graduation, wedding, or any other milestone occasion. Everyone knows that it's trying and make light of it because it's in the past. It's not like he said she ruined his life.

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