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Lionel Richie found love and marriage didn't always mix well with Hollywood

"In Tuskegee, if you met someone at a party, all you had to say was, 'I’m married,' and the woman would be, 'Oh, sorry, I didn’t know,' and back away," he described in his memoir

The Commodores crooner did not find that to be the case once he moved to California

Lionel Richie could have had three times the ladies.

The Grammy winner and American Idol judge, 76, gets candid in his new memoir Truly , out now, about the pressures of fame and how love and marriage don't always mix well with Hollywood.

"When I was getting my start in LA, my first reaction was, 'How stupid are these people? They get married and divorced every week,'" wrote Richie. "That’s not to say love wasn’t involved. It’s

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