Overview

• Published this week, Truly is Richie’s first extended, first-person account of the 1988 incident that helped end his first marriage.
• Richie recounts arriving at Diane Alexander’s Beverly Hills apartment when Brenda Harvey confronted them; police responded, an arrest was made, and charges were later dropped.
• He reveals for the first time that he and Harvey were separated during the confrontation, which he calls “the scandal of my century.”
• The book details a subsequent spiral driven by his father’s death, risky vocal surgery and depression, including a Jamaica episode where a fan’s plea helped interrupt his breakdown.
• Richie traces his family story from fostering Nicole in 1983 to adopting her at age 9, then his later marriage to Alexander and their children Miles and Sofia, with an update on his longtime relationship with Lisa Parigi.