Richie was adopted by Lionel Richie and his wife when she was still a young girl and she blames a happy upbringing and being spoilt on her drug habits.
She said to Tatler magazine: �I had a pretty fun childhood, but I just wanted to feel nothing.
�It wasn't that it was horrible and I wanted to feel better. I just didn't want to feel anything.
�Doing drugs kind of made me just forget and not feel anything, for a second. I think it's a combination of things. Partly just me wanting to be older - it's what the older kids were doing at the time.
However, Richie does not think that growing up in Hollywood made her any more likely to take drugs.
She said: �I could easily say yes it was, but people also have drug problems in Kansas.
�So I don't know whether, if I had lived somewhere else, it would have been a problem. I'd say it probably would have been, not matter where I grew up.�
It was probably because you had a shit load of money and easy access�what other excuse could you possibly need?
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