Nicole: I don’t regret my wild child past
SHE was the It Girl who fought drug addiction and had several run-ins with the law. But Nicole Richie – the adopted daughter of singer Lionel Richie – has no regrets about her rebellious childhood.
‘Getting into trouble and going through everything in the public eye was good because if I had cleaned up without anyone knowing, maybe I would have figured out how to slip back into it,’ says Nicole. The 36-year-old – who is married to singer Joel Madden of rock band Good Charlotte – found fame in reality show The Simple Life with friend Paris Hilton. But she is now a devoted mother who gets up at 5.30am every day, and imposes strict rules on her daughter Harlow, nine, and son Sparrow, eight. ‘The kids think I’m strict, which is insane,’ she laughs. ‘I just have rules: bedtimes, eating good food, limits. But they think Joel is the fun.’