Richie is a man

That's my intelligent comment of the day

Nah, by that I mean that he's just as susceptible to wanting to find a way to escape from his emotional trauma as anyone else is ... but also that he's not infallible, and I don't really think it's disrespecting him in any way to say that he might very well have made some mistakes over the years, and the last few years especially, that have directed him to the place he is right now