Nicole Richie reflects on a terrifying encounter with the paparazzi.
In the episode of December 11 Call her dadthe A simple life The alum, 43, opened up about her “craziest interaction” with the paparazzi and how she struggled to enforce boundaries in public early in her career.
“Once I was in the hospital, I crashed,” she said and explained that she was hit by a car on the road. “My son [Sparrow] she was about 6 weeks old. [But] he wasn’t in the car, thank God!”
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(L) Nicole Richie and Paris Hilton in 2003.
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When host Alex Cooper asked how she felt about the attention she received during that period of her life, Richie opened up about the challenges she faced in standing up for herself and her privacy.
“It was very difficult to implement any boundaries because the world didn’t really act like you deserved it at all,” she explained. “And I was so young and I just didn’t know how to stand up for myself.”
“I like that I was a lot more accepting, which is very common in your 20s,” she added, noting that she had a tendency to “accept things” that would never fly today.
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From left: Paris Hilton and Nicole Richie at the Simple Life 3: Interns month-long road trip welcome party on November 21, 2004 in New York City.
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Richie and her co-star and friend Paris Hilton became household names after their show A simple life aired in the early 2000s. The series — which ran from 2003 to 2007 — saw Lionel Richie’s daughter and hotel heiress travel the US looking for odd jobs and eventually entering the corporate world.
More than 16 years after the original series finale, PEOPLE confirmed in May 2024 that the two are reuniting for an all-new television series.
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The duo are picking up where they left off, Richie said earlier Diversity in April that her son Sparrow, now 14, and her daughter Harlow, 16, are not fans of the 2003 series. Richie shares her two children with husband Joel Madden, whom she married in 2010.
“A simple life apparently it’s having a big moment on TikTok, so they tell me they’re watching clips on TikTok,” she said of her children. “Their friends are watching it. I keep rolling my eyes at home. It’s in line with how I’m generally seen.”
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