“He would wear pants until they are ruthless”

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• Lionel Richie pleads on an unusual nickname for his boyfriend and collaborator Michael Jackson

• In his new candid memories, ReallyHe shares memories of his life and his career

• Really is available now, wherever books are sold

Lionel Richie is Really An open book.

The Grammy winner and American idol The judge, 76, released his new memories ReallySeptember 30, and he shared fascinating stories without before. “To be honest with you, I don’t know how I remembered a lot,” the star told people exclusively about her writing process.

A memory that stood out was the link he had with a close friend Michael Jackson at the top of his fame. In ReallyHe describes how he and the king of pop were deeply linked to music, but differently differently with regard to the way they spent daily life.

“Michael was very close to his brothers and sisters and his mother, but once he went solo, making these albums, films and videos of monsters, he was in charge of his own ship,” writes Richie. “His daily life was what you could call eccentric. Like an absent teacher but still a child.”

For example, Richie shares this Quincy Jones music colleague teased Jackson with the nickname “Sgelly”.

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“Michael also laughed, realizing that he was unconscious because he had not changed or washed his clothes for about a few days,” wrote Richie. “We all have our quirks.”

Richie Share Really This badson’s bad hygiene was, paradoxically, partly due to his extreme level of renown, and which he often lived on the road and could not simply enter the department stores to buy things like anyone else.

“He was on tour in the costumes developed made for him by his stylists, or he was in his pajamas and his slippers in the studio or he was in his outing outfit. Or he was at home in something loose and comfortable so that he could practice his dance movements and play with his men’s menagerie,” describes Richie.

When it was only both together, he said that Jackson did not put any distribution – or deodorant.

“Whenever Michael came to visit me, he wore anything – jeans and a t -shirt. And the jeans fell from him or too short to even be jeans and, well, smelly,” writes Richie.

When Richie asked questions about his pants, he says that the superstar answered: “” Lionel, I walked by a store in the valley. The owner came out and gave me a free pair. “

He shares that when Jackson was traveling, he couldn’t just send his clothes to be cleaned because, quite often, his property would not have returned.

“Everyone has kept something for a memory,” wrote Richie. “He just got into the habit of wearing the same pants until they were ruthless.”

But Richie was the kind of friend to lend a hand. Once, when Jackson came by watching and feeling particularly neglected, Richie writes that he gave the star a pair of jeans, clean underwear and encouraged him to take a shower for the first time in days.

“I brought him home, in his runners, and he was sweet and grateful. As soon as I returned to my house, I passed near the living room and I noticed that the carpet was the pair of underwear of Michael Jackson and his old Jean Ratty. I’m just lying like a roadkill,” he wrote. “What should I do but laugh? MJ was there.”

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Although he shares that the singer was a musical scientist who “could compare 15 different mixtures from the same song and could distinguish them:” His daily life was another story. “In his daily life that went and came, this child slipped him every minute,” he wrote.

Really By Lionel Richie is available now, wherever books are sold.

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