Joel Madden revealed the important thing to a profitable marriage along with his spouse, Nicole Richie.

Throughout his look on The Drew Barrymore Present on Wednesday, November 15, Joel, 44, opened up about his almost 13-year marriage to Richie, 42. Host Drew Barrymore, who’s shut buddies with Joel’s sister-in-law Cameron Diaz (the actress has been married to Joel’s twin brother, Benji, since 2015), stated she has gotten to know Richie by way of Diaz.

“I used to be like, ‘That is the good girl ever,’” Barrymore, 48, recalled of assembly Richie.

“The extra her, the extra you’re keen on her,” Joel agreed. “It takes time to get to know her. However she’s simply stylish.” The Good Charlotte frontman added that Richie’s mother and father, Lionel Richie and Brenda Harvey-Richie, “did an excellent job” and “raised somebody with rather a lot of integrity and rather a lot of class.”

In terms of their 12-year marriage, Joel stated that he and Nicole each do “heaps of remedy.”

“I don’t suppose we fake to be excellent both,” he continued. “I feel we’re all human.”

Barrymore praised the couple for his or her “lovely life collectively,” with their two kids, daughter Harlow, 15, and son Sparrow, 14.

Joel gushed that his children have been “straightforward” to boost. “We obtained fortunate with our children. They’re straightforward,” stated the musician. “I at all times inform my children, you make it really easy to be a dad. They’re simply good children. They are surely. They’re nice. And I feel they’re like their mother.”

Joel and Nicole began relationship in 2006 and obtained married in 2010. They welcomed daughter Harlow in 2008 and son Sparrow in 2009.

Forward of their 13th wedding ceremony anniversary, Joel shared his appreciation for Nicole and their 17-year relationship on the Tamron Corridor Present. “She’s lovely. That’s my queen,” he stated on the November 7 episode. “She’s been the best accomplice. I really feel fortunate.”
“The one factor I’ve executed longer than 17 years is the band,” he added in reference to Good Charlotte.

He additionally talked about that his spouse has been a “large half” of his journey with private identification and that he now desires his kids to study to “be your self and to like your self.”

“As a result of it took me a very long time to study that,” he defined. “You’re speaking about placing your self on the market and I feel you’ll be able to put your self on the market within the fallacious manner, too. So, you must love your self first and I feel you must put your self on the market in the proper manner.”