Monday, July 09, 2007

Lionel Richie Backs Up Daughter Nicole

When you’re on the verge of going to jail, and the world just found out that you’re pregnant, there’s nothing like a little support from your rich and famous dad to make you feel better. Just ask Nicole Richie.

Nicole’s dad, Lionel had been publicly supporting her, saying that she’s just caught up in an unfortunate series of events. Lionel claims that the modern technology used to monitor celebrities makes it hard for them to be themselves without looking bad.

He told press, “She’s just in an unfortunate situation. There’s just so much information out there right now - MySpace, cell phones, the internet. If we had all that when The Commodores were around, God only knows what my mother and father would have seen.”

Above all, Lionel believes that his daughter is just going through what normal 25-year-olds have to deal with these days. “She keeps apologizing to me. I told her, ‘You’re doing exactly what you’re supposed to be doing to your father at this age.’”

Nicole is pregnant with Joel Madden of Good Charlotte’s baby, and hopes to get married to him this summer, although a complicated DUI court case could ruin those plans.