Former Simple Life star and soon-to-be prison inmate Nicole Richie has blamed her previous drug addiction on boredom.

The 26-year-old developed a dependency on the class A drug heroin early in her wild-partying socialite career and believes it was the pressure of her new-found fame which pushed her towards a full-blown addiction.

“I got so much, so fast that nothing really excited me anymore. I kind of took matters into my own hands and was creating drama in a very dangerous way,” she said.
“I think I was just bored and I had seen everything — especially when you’re young, you just want more.”

But the daughter of 80s pop balladeer Lionel Richie now insists she has put those days of non-stop partying and regular drug-taking behind her, which is especially lucky now she is four months pregnant with Good Charlotte singer Joel Madden’s child.