LIONEL RICHIE: Superstar opens up about his amazing last six months
Lionel Richie is on quite a roll -- in just the last six months, he's received the Kennedy Center Honors, left his hand- and footprints in cement at Hollywood's Chinese Theater, and became a panelist on the revival of American Idol.
He's also set to tour Britain this June. To promote those shows, he appeared on ITV's Lorraine Show, a talker similar to our Ellen DeGeneres.
Lionel Richie could have never have imagined the way his career would play out:
"I was thinking of retiring as a Commodore, and then something came along called Kenny Rogers and 'Lady' and now this solo career. OK. Now, you're supposed to just ride that all the way out, right? And then, at the ripe old age of 200, someone calls on the phone and says, 'Would you like to be the host of, one of the co-hosts of the American Idol and here's your hands and feet in the cement -- and on top of that, the Kennedy Center Honors."
Yet his life isn't without setbacks. Lionel says he was crushed by the death of his father in 1990. "My father was ill and I went through a very -- I won’t say a depression, a massive depression, because, you know, my dad was my hero." The birth of his son Miles helped him snap out of it. "It was something about the birth of my kid. Miles came along and [my older daughter] Nicole was already there, and I realized I had a group of people that were kind of looking up to me to be the head of the house."