Lionel Richie looking back on a “disastrous” moment in his love life.

In his new memoir, “Truly,” the 76-year-old singer finally opened up about the June 1988 fight between his first wife, Brenda Harvey-Richie, and his second wife, Diane Alexander, an incident he called “the scandal of my century.”

“What very few people knew was that Brenda and I were separated,” Richie wrote in his book, per People . “I got a place at the beach, and I was hiding out there, trying to be alone, trying to decompress somehow, because it was killing everyone.” 9

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Richie recalled that he went back to LA to visit Alexander at her Beverly Hills home, and the then-dating couple were shocked by Harvey’s arrival.

“When the door opens, Brenda is standing there,” he said. “There is a massive confrontati

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