No Richie on current leg of the tour

i can agree with this. I did my fair shaire on cocaine and this is exactly how a coke ADDICT would behave. I put addict in capital as this isn't how a regular user would behave...
Richie is way off.. that's for sure...

Maybe it wasn't Nikki who gave the blowj- I mean, I noticed that too and found it strange. If it's been that way before I never noticed it.

Richie come back!!!

Attempt at a transcript:


- The last I heard is you were gonna perform with Bon Jovi in London.
That is not true. We're just not happening at the moment.
Right now I'm concentrating on the fashion stuff. That's what's going on.

Oh yeah, I love my fans, I love the band.
Jon and I have been relying on each other for like 30 years now.
You now so, hey things are going to work out.
help needed here - It's just not what happens, what happens to Bon Jovi at the moment.

So I've taken this time to actually spend some great time with my daughter and push this fashion line really into the forefront.
I'm taking my daughter on Sunday. We're going to Rome and Paris and hang out and I'm going to show her the world.
I toured for 30 years, successively. This is the first time I was at home for three months at a clip in 30 years.

- Obviously you miss the fans ?
Yeah I do. I'll be back again.

- So this tour we can say you won't be on it ?
No, it's not true. Not true.

- At some point maybe later ?
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I think so.

- You are confident things are gonna work out ?
Yeah. Like I said, we've been relying on each other for 30 years. You know between the fans and that magnet and the band and everything. It will work out.

- Cause you have no idea how many calls, emails I get saying when's Richie coming back ? What's going on ?
Yes, I bet. I get the same thing.
You know right now, it's just working on this fashion line

- Can we say that all of July, August, maybe September ?
Yeah, maybe September.

- Maybe September things will resolve ?
You know, very close.

- From your mouth what's the stumbling block ?
I can't say. It's not for me to say.
Actually you know what, family issues are family issues. The band is like a family.
There's no reason for me to actually say anything about that you know.
So that's all I'm saying.

- Because Jon did say that you are part of that on the Ellen show.
Oh well if I'm not, somebody should take a look at the writing credits and the producers' credits on the last 14 albums for God's sakes. So if I'm not part of the band, boy, surprise to me !

Yeah, well I'm no expert but I've been around a few cocaine users and they've acted the same when they're on it.

TMZ caught up with Richie, too, but there's nothing new in it - http://www.tmz.com/2013/06/29/richie...it-tour-video/

I like how the press is running with the "Ticket sales are low due to Richie's absence" idea.

Let's see...Nikki and Richie were at a fashion show trying to promote their 5-year old fashion line and everyone is telling Nikki to sit down and STFU. Richie futilely tried to insert a couple of comments about really trying "to push the fashion line to the forefront" while he was off the tour. Yes, both should have expected what reporters would be asking and Richie should have prepared better statements but everyone should consider the environment (fashion show). He was trying to promote their line in an impossible situation in light of the absence of a Bon Jovi resolution or statement. It was a lose/lose situation for everyone.

The only thing I got from it was that resolution was "very close" and so all is not lost (yet). Richie was quite defensive about his position in the band so it is obvious that he feels he is a part of it and wants to be with the band but is sticking with his guns over this "family/band issue." It must be very important to him. No matter how much fans are hurting or are angry, I do not fault him for standing up for what he believes and I do not expect him to hide at home staring at the walls.

The pap shooed Nikki out of the shot.

He's all GTFOH!

And she's all WTF?

LOLOLOLOL