Adele’s partner Rich Paul reveals his new memoir Lucky Me ‘hit home’ for the singer as he opens up on traumatic upbringing: ‘It was very emotional’

Rich Paul is preparing for the release of his new memoir, Lucky Me: A Memoir Of Changing The Odds, and revealed that details of his traumatic upbringing ‘hit home’ for partner, Adele. 

The 41-year-old sports agent – whose book is slated to hit shelves later this month on October 10 – has been linked to the Someone Like You songstress, 35, since 2021. 

Ahead of the book’s release, Paul explained during an interview with People that the memoir was ‘difficult’ for the Grammy winner to read due to him detailing his childhood with a drug addict mother. 

‘The thing about it is, I was never really a kid,’ he stated, adding that the childhood trauma he experienced was also familiar to Adele.

‘It was very emotional. I think a lot of it probably hit home, so yeah, it was a difficult read [for her],’ Rich expressed while talking about her own response to the anticipated memoir. 

Hitting home: Rich Paul, 41, has been preparing for the release of his new memoir, Lucky Me: A Memoir Of Changing The Odds, and revealed details of his traumatic upbringing ‘hit home’ for partner, Adele, 35; seen in February in Los Angeles 

‘Emotional’: ‘It was very emotional. I think a lot of it probably hit home, so yeah, it was a difficult read [for her],’ Rich expressed while talking about her own response to the anticipated memoir

The singer had also experienced difficulties growing up, such as losing her grandfather to a battle with cancer when she was 10. 

Her father, Mark, had notably been absent for most of her life, but the two had the opportunity to reunite at the start of her rise to fame and shortly before he passed away. 

He also told the outlet, ‘It was one of the toughest things for me to relive and write about. I had built up this wall as a young kid. just have the understanding to move forward and know that she’s not going to be there. Like, Mom is not coming home.’ 

The Klutch Sports Group founder – who has three children from a previous relationship whilst Adele has Angelo, 10, with ex-husband Simon Konecki – went on to add that these days he is ‘happy’ with his life. 

The successful sports agent also recalled that his father Rich Paul Sr. set a ‘great example’ for him growing up. 

‘I’m happy in all aspects of my life. I’ve always been somebody that never allowed things to get to me. I had a great example of who a man should be and what a man should do.’ 

‘I had a front row seat to what work ethic was like, what perseverance was like. I watched my dad play air traffic controller in a community that was a war mixed with a tornado, but also a picnic at times. He was my hero in that regard,’ he added. 

Despite his own traumatic past, Rich notably has built a name for himself, and has signed sports stars such as Lebron James, Anthony Davis and also Ben Simmons, under his company.  

Opening up: ‘The thing about it is, I was never really a kid,’ he stated, and added that the childhood trauma that he experienced was also familiar to Adele; seen in April in L.A. 

Success: Despite his own traumatic past, Rich notably has built a name for himself, and has signed sports stars such as Lebron James, Anthony Davis and also Ben Simmons, under his company; seen with Anthony Davis in 2021 

But before a chance encounter with Lebron James that changed his life, Rich had known of his mom’s drug addiction at age 4, leaned how to play dice at 6, started dealing drugs as a young teen and got a girl pregnant at 14 – also detailed in the memoir. 

He has since left his hardscrabble life behind to become a multi-millionaire and now lives with one of the richest singers in the world. 

‘I never had the chance to be a kid,’ he writes. ‘Crack was so powerful it decimated my mother’s love and expedited my adolescence. I had to grow from a cub to a young wolf right away.’

Paul grew up in the Glenville area on Cleveland’s East Side. His parents weren’t married and his father Rich Paul Sr. was the stabilizing influence as his mother – who he refers to as ‘Peaches’ was so drug-addled.

His father even once threatened to shoot him ‘like Marvin Gaye’s father did’ if he kept flunking at school after his GPA slipped to 1.4.

And the father’s threat worked, Paul says. ‘That moment changed the trajectory of my life,’ he writes. His grade average soon went back up and never again went below 3.6.

Paul is now estimated to be worth $120million and is currently shacked up in a $58million mega mansion in Beverly Hills with Adele, who he started dating in 2021.

Their marital status is unclear although twice in recent weeks Adele – who admits she is ‘obsessed’ with him and says she is ‘as happy as she will ever be’ – has referred to herself as ‘wife’ and him as ‘husband.’ 

Working hard: Paul is now estimated to be worth $120million and is currently shacked up in a $58million mega mansion in Beverly Hills with Adele, who he started dating in 2021; seen with Denzel Washington in May 

Paul admits that his tough upbringing left him with ‘constant suspicion and hyperawareness.’ And even in his new super-wealthy life he writes that he still flinches at loud noises after growing up listening to gunshots.

In his memoir, Paul describes growing up in the 1980s in a one-bedroom apartment above his father’s confectionary store.

He frankly describes how the crack epidemic impacted his childhood, writing, ‘unless you lived through it, you really don’t know’.

‘When she was using,’ he writes, referring to his mother ‘we had to fend for ourselves. This is why I feel I never had the chance to be a kid,’ he writes.

In 1990, when Paul was eight years old, his grandmother Ruth moved back to St Louis, taking him, and his sister Brandie and brother Meco with her.

He began to play basketball in middle school and found he had a natural skill for it. Meanwhile Meco began selling drugs, taking him down a path that would eventually lead to jail.

Growing up: In his memoir Paul describes growing up in the 1980s in a one-bedroom apartment above his father’s confectionary store

In the past: ‘When she was using,’ he writes, referring to his mother ‘we had to fend for ourselves. This is why I feel I never had the chance to be a kid,’ he writes; see with Kevin Hart (left) in October 2022 

In Lucky Me, Paul recounts a time his mother was pestering his father for money so she could buy drugs, so Paul gave her the cash. ‘When you see your mother walk away holding tighter to some bills than she ever held on to you, it’s hard to trust anyone after that.’

Dealing with Peaches and addiction forced Paul to put up an ’emotional armor’ around himself to ‘bury the pain it caused me.’

Everything changed soon after that when Paul Sr. got cancer and died in 2000, leaving his son ‘crying like a baby.’

He grieved for 10 days and then decided to start dealing cocaine because he felt he needed to be ‘more of a man.’

Paul dropped out of college but his street education went to ‘PhD level’. As the money poured in, Paul bought flashy clothes, started traveling to Philadelphia and New York to see basketball games including NBA All-Star Games.

But life on the streets started to weigh on Paul and he had a scare when he was robbed of $300,000 of cash and his expensive watch.

Loss: Everything changed soon after that when Paul Sr. got cancer and died in 2000, leaving his son ‘crying like a baby’; seen with James Cordon in January in Los Angeles 

Big step: The book finishes with Paul meeting LeBron James by chance at Akron airport in 2001, the start of a friendship that would see them both ascend to the top of their professions; the pair seen in 2019 

Sensing an opportunity, Paul worked there one weekend a month for a 30 percent discount on sports jerseys which he flew back to Cleveland and sold for a profit.

‘Man those jerseys sold better than crack’, Paul writes – admitting he had raked in $15,000 a month from his side hustle.

Looking for a new business, Paul got to know the owner of a store in Atlanta called Distant Replays, which sold rare sports merchandise.

The book finishes with Paul meeting LeBron James by chance at Akron airport in 2001, the start of a friendship that would see them both ascend to the top of their professions. 

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