Lionel talked about his adopted daughter Nicole in an interview with Piers Morgan.

"I went to a Prince concert and there on the stage in the middle of the concert was this four-year-old kid playing the tambourine. So I went backstage and I knew the mother and I knew the father and, of course, they were having difficulties with their relationship. I said, 'While you are having the difficulty the kid is sitting out here in limbo so I’ll tell you what I’ll do, just put the kid in my house until the tour is over with and then we will sort this out later'. And so it took about maybe a year for me to just fall in love and she was a little button, and of course by that time I was Dad ... and that’s when I said, 'Let’s adopt her.'"

https://uk.celebrity.yahoo.com/post/...g-his-daughter

So he just decided to keep the kid forever?

Wait.. she's adopted?

Lionel is black and Nicole is white

He literally says he knew the parents and they allowed it in the article

She could have been mixed

I had no idea that she was adopted.

Get those views

sis, it turned from "i know you're having troubles" to "keep the kid in my house" to "let's do it for a year" to "i'll just keep her k?"

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She's mixed. Her dad is Sheila E's brother.

Just check her wiki

Richie was born in Berkeley, California, and has Mexican, Creole, and Spanish ancestry. Her biological father is Peter Michael Escovedo, a musician who briefly played with Lionel Richie, and her biological mother Karen Moss was the executive assistant for Nicole's aunt, Sheila E. When she was three, her parents agreed to let her move in with Brenda Harvey and Lionel Richie because they could not afford to provide for her financially. "My parents were friends with Lionel," she told People in 2003. "They trusted that they would be better able to provide for me."Initially, Lionel Richie became her guardian.

Brenda and Lionel legally adopted Nicole when she was nine.

No. He adopted her. If her parents wanted, they could've kept her.

Um... no.

Nicole is mixed






& not kidnapped.

I'm surprised so many people are unaware she was adopted. Her parents were having trouble taking care of her financially so Lionel offered to give her a better life, nothing wrong with that.