Musician Lionel Richie has opened up about his decision to adopt daughter Nicole, after seeing her playing with a tambourine at the age of four.
In an interview with British reporter Piers Morgan Lionel said: “I went to a Prince concert and there on the stage in the middle of the concert was this four-year-old kid playing the tambourine.’
He knew Nicole’s parents, who were with the Prince tour.
He told Piers: “They were having difficulties with their relationship. I said, ‘While you are having the difficulty the kid is sitting out here in limbo so I’ll tell you what I’ll do, just put the kid in my house until the tour is over with and then we will sort this out later.”
Lionel said it “took about maybe a year for me to just fall in love and she was a little button, and of course by that time I was Dad and so I said, ‘OK here is what we are going to do, you’re going to make everyone wish that they had adopted you. You are going to make everyone in your family wish they actually had a chance to get you back,’ and that’s when I said, ‘Let’s adopt her.’″
Nicole is married to Voice coach Joel Madden, and has two children – Harlow and Sparrow.
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