In an online video-interview series, Huffington Post asks children to interview their parents. One such interview was conducted by former reality-show star Nicole Richie and her pops, Lionel.

As the interview – which you can watch HERE – progresses from his beginnings in music and how his grandparents met, to him travelling with his band, they eventually reach the topic of Nicole, Lionel and then-wife Brenda came to adopt her.

It all started at a Prince concert back in the 80s. Says Lionel:

The discovery was not the show for Prince. The discovery was: there’s a 2-year-old on stage with Prince playing a tambourine.

After the show, Lionel met the little tambourine player backstage. Lionel knew Nicole’s biological parents, and realised later on that their relationship was falling apart and wanted to help:

I think we decided that … what we’ll do to kind of give you some stability was we’ll be like legal guardians, but nothing more.

I remember you had abandonment issues for obvious reasons. You’d been handed around to every relative in the family. I remember what I said to you. I said, ‘I’m never, ever going to leave you.’

While it was a promise he had made to Nicole, he soon realised that it was very quickly returned to him:

I think you…changed my life a great deal in terms of softening my heart, because everything up to that point was about songwriting and the business and touring. All of a sudden I found something that I could actually fall in love with that was never going to leave me. How about that?

And that’s how Lionel met Nicole. Watch the full interview between father and daughter HERE.

[source: huffingtonpost]