After living with Richie and his wife for a few years, it became clear that NicoleвЂ™s birth parents couldnвЂ™t provide for her. Knowing they couldnвЂ™t properly look after Nicole for financial reasons, Escovedo and Moss took up Lionel RichieвЂ™s generous offer and agreed to let her move in with him and his then-wife, Brenda Harvey when Nicole was three years old. вЂњIt was actually getting worse, the family situation was falling apart.вЂќ вЂњThe situation with you wasnвЂ™t getting any better,вЂќ Lionel Richie said to Nicole for Huffington Post.

Lionel saw Nicole for the first time at a Prince concert. By the time Nicole was 2, her parents were reportedly having major relationship and money issues. B oth of them worked in the music industry at the time and ran in the same circles as Lionel Richie. Nicole was born Nicole Camille Escovedo on Septemto her biological mother, Karen Moss, and her father, Peter Michael Escovedo. Nicole RichieвЂ™s early life and birth parents When she became pregnant with her first child in 2008, she circled back around to thinking about her biological parents (the circle of life, if you will) and decided she could make room for them in her life after all.

But those of us who are open to evolving do, and so did Nicole Richie. One might even surmise that her past drug problems and arrests have stemmed in part from this first relationship, which left much to be desired. For years, Richie, now 39, understandably felt heartbroken that her biological parents had left her and she wanted nothing to do with them.

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