Lionel Richie on Michael

[marebear]

I am tired of the little digs too. People say something really nice and ruin it with a stupid comment. Then you are left wondering what they mean by it. If I sound like a defensive fan to be honest I don't care. I am just tired. As someone said earlier it was the world that failed Michael not the other way around.

[Petrarose]

Love exactly. I wish my life could be a failure like Michael's. Let's face it Michael has a bigger legacy, millions of fans who love him, gave more to charity than Richie, etc, etc, so compared to Richie's life how is Michael's a failure? All I see is that especially in later years he was more victimized by the media, friends, and users--and that is where his pain came from. It is as we always say: stars and has-beens often say something nice about Michael and then also include some nastiness to be on the side of the media in order to keep favor with them. They want the media to use them again and call them back to give interviews/programs.

[MsCassieMollie]

Yeah I didn't like that last bit either. Very unnecessary. His words at first was really sweet but he kinda messed up with the "failure" comment. I'm a VERY slow person and I'm trying to figure out what the heck he means. I'm gonna try to contact him.

[mybluesaway]

^^^
Yes i too want to "fail" like Mike ! ! !
Dang just to think about how much love,
inspiration and positivity that man imparted upon the planet...wow the more i think of LR comments the more angry i become.
No class Mr. Ritchie

[mybluesaway]

^^^
Yes i too want to "fail" like Mike ! ! !
Dang just to think about how much love,
inspiration and positivity that man imparted upon the planet...wow the more i think of LR comments the more angry i become.
No class Mr. Richie

[Mirabella76]

Sounds like Lionel haven't met Michael for a long long time. I see that Quincy Jones tune 'he was so so good guy but later everything changed' continues. It's interesting how often did they see each other for the last 10 years. His daughter Nicole is Michael's god-daughter isn't she

[MsCassieMollie]

Sounds like Lionel haven't met Michael for a long long time. I see that Quincy Jones tune 'he was so so good guy but later everything changed' continues. It's interesting how often did they see each other for the last 10 years. His daughter Nicole is Michael's god-daughter isn't she

Just like Smokey & Quincy they weren't close to MJ at all the last 15 years of his life so they all don't know Michael well at all. They just assumed things about his life....

And yes MJ is Nicole godfather and she said some lovely things about him.

[MsCassieMollie]

Guys contact Lionel here:

https://twitter.com/#!/lionelrichie

[Aquarius]

**What we saw later was a product of the failure of the rest of his life. The guy I knew was just funny and silly.**

That was a cruel and unnecessary comment. Is Lionel under some kind of meds? What failure is he talking about? To me problems doesn't necesarily means failure. A decade later after his last tour Michael sells 50 concerts and that's a failure?

I think Lionel is just jealous of Michael's fame & money.

[8701girl]

I think Lionel is just jealous of Michael's fame & money.

Most of the people who were in michael's life were jealous & envious of his level of fame and they wished for that. Its such a shame they gotta give digs to someone who they claim they love and let their jealousy consume them

[bluetopez]

MJ SOLD OUT 50 SHOWS AT THE 02 before he past in that so called later "failure of the rest of his life" that Lionel is referring too. And Lionel Richie just did a performance on HSN!
That's right The Home Shopping Network. Nuff said!

[jaydom7]

Guys contact Lionel here:

https://twitter.com/#!/lionelrichie

I don't have twitter.. Let us know MsCassieMollie how he responds. He knows MJ sold out 50 shows because in March 2009 he claims he was talking to Mike and trying to get MJ back on stage etc so what does he mean by 'failure for the rest of his life' Lionel should be twitter attacked for that asinine comment.

[The Brown Gangsta]

I was hoping that this was an interview that was originally written in another language and maybe something got lost in translation. So far that doesn't appear to be the cases.

As much as I love nice little anctedotes about Michael, perhaps its better for some people to just not speak. You let them talk long enough and they are bound to say something dumb.

Funny thing is that Lionel revealed more about himself (lack of compassion and empathy, detachment, jealously, poor word choice, etc)

[ExoticPrincess]

What we saw later was a product of the failure of the rest of his life. The guy I knew was just funny and silly.

Come on now Lionel, that was completely unnecessary.....its like diarraeh of the mouth with some people!

Why do people who you think cared about Michael, always find some way of putting out there some snide remark that would've been better left unsaid?

Michael was STILL funny and silly, ask his kids!

[MsCassieMollie]

Come on now Lionel, that was completely unnecessary.....its like diarraeh of the mouth with some people!

Why do people who you think cared about Michael, always find some way of putting out there some snide remark that would've been better left unsaid?

Michael was STILL funny and silly, ask his kids!

Ditto.