Nicole Richie Finally Sees the Light

Nicole Richie is seen here as she attends her court mandated Traffic School in Van Nuys. The traffic school is a part of her probation agreement after having been arrested for a DUI last year. Last year Nicole spent a total of 80 minutes in jail for being caught driving the wrong way down a Los Angeles freeway as a result of some impaired choices she made while driving.

While at first the hippy starlet was slammed for being so reckless, as well as for acting so flip about trying to get out of her charges, it seems that Nicole has finally grown up a little bit about her mistake, and all because she’s a mom now. She is publicly saying now that she will never forgive herself for her DUI conviction, as well as for acting so cavalier about the charges and trying to get out of them.

At this point, she has finally realized how terrifying her decisions could have been and that she may have actually killed someone. All of this hindsight is the result of watching some news with her baby daddy Joel Madden, where they saw a series on drunk drivers and were shown hideous pictures of children being seriously injured or killed by drunk drivers.

She describes it as her first ‘real parent moment’ and when she saw that, she felt like the worst person in the world. She has since vowed never to play chicken with the law again, and she wants to set a positive example to her five month old daughter Harlow.

“There’s absolutely no way I will do anything like that again. I never took life seriously before. I’m in a completely different place now. I owe my baby my life. I have a responsibility now. I have to really be someone I want my child to look up to. I think it’s important for every child to look up to their parent. I want to show her the right path.”

It’s great to see the maturity of celebrities when they normally have the stereotype that they just don’t care about these issues. Let’s hope some of that maturity will rub off on her BFF Paris. What do you think the chances are?

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