Just checked his twitter. "Just arriving in Tokyo with the Family! With Chuck Loeb, Steve Gadd, Giulio Carmassi and Oli Rockberger" We're safe.

Firstly singing with Stevie wonder must have been cool, I don't no, I get how he must get sick of talking bout the band on his "break" but he comes across cold and snappy... With regards to staying at home with his daughter, maybe that's where this all started, maybe Richie said something bout Jons kid and the whole drug thing... But alas we will never prop no :)

Early on Richie mentioned loving his fans/missing them. By summer he was mentioning coming back on tour. When he realized that it wasn't going to happen--for whatever unknown reason--he settled into his life and found it to be good. On red carpets, reporters are firing questions right and left. If the question had been, "do you miss your fans," I think he would have said yes and sent some love our way.

I get that he must get sick of reporters asking him the questions and the constant harrasment of some fans that they give him on twitter and the like but, he either needs a new publicist or his current one needs to step up and do some damage control. He's coming across as really conceited and a bit of a dick, and I don't think he's doing it intentionally, he seems oblivious to it....

He sound so drunk.

He was about to go on stage with Stevie ****ing Wonder and you are being critical of how he talks to members of the press?! Who cares? It's the press!

I don't even understand what you and others are hearing... at what point is he being a dick?

He doesn't have to bother stopping to talk to these people you know. He answers the questions.

What is it you want?

Oh shut up.

That stopped being funny... actually it was never funny.

I applaud those who have the energy to still comment on this whole sorry mess.

This thread has more views and posts in 6 months than the official youtube topic sticky has gotten in 10 years.

No, but he did that lip licking thing again that stimulant drugs tend to make people do. He's been doing it since the red carpet fashion interview with Nikki a few months back. I don't recall him ever doing that before this year. Maybe it's prescribed, maybe it's illegal, but he's on something.