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In his new memoir Truly , Lionel Richie revisits moments he admits he had "tried to forget"

The singer recalls the shocking brawl that took place between his then-wife Brenda Harvey and Diane Alexander, a woman he was seeing at the time

"What very few people knew was that Brenda and I were separated," Richie writes

A master of writing hit love songs, Lionel Richie is revisiting a time when his real life love story was anything but harmonious.

The Grammy winner and American Idol judge , 76, opens up about his journey like never before in new memoir Truly , out now.

"There are certain things you realize in your life that you got through them because you tried to forget," Richie told PEOPLE of his memoir. "That’s where the book took many a turn because it st

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