ENTERTAINMENT NEWS - Nicole Richie almost set her father, Lionel Richie, on fire.
The 36-year-old fashion designer tried to carry out cupping treatment - when alcohol is poured into a cup and are heated before they are applied to the skin and create a vacuum to relieve any tension in the muscles in that area - on her famous dad but it could have gone horribly wrong as she got a "little too close" to burning his skin.
Speaking to You magazine about the near miss, she said: "I just got a little too close to his back for a hot second."
And the Great News star admitted she often plays pranks on her 68-year-old dad.
She said: "I love to play pranks on him all the time."
Though the singer and his ex-wife Brenda Harvey - who took Nicole in when she was three and legally adopted her at nine - were not "strict" parents, her dad's few rules motivated the star to work hard to earn her own money.
She explained: "[They] definitely weren't strict: I don't think I had a bedtime. I remember my father saying to me all the time, 'Do this or we are taking away your car'.
So in my mind, I was like, 'I can't wait to not ask my dad for anything and earn my own money.'
What drives me now is that I love getting up in the morning, I love to create, and that's what you should be doing, exercising your brain."
Lionel has not only encouraged Nicole - who has Harlow, nine, and eight-year-old Sparrow with her husband Joel Madden - to be self-sufficient, but also to be "kind".
