Adele’s ‘husband’ has disclosed that he learned how to play dice at age 6, became involved in drug trade as a young adolescent, and became pregnant at age 14.

And because of all the gunfire he heard as a child growing up on Cleveland’s seedy streets, sports agent Rich Paul still flinches at the sound of a gunshot.

However, he overcame his impoverished upbringing to become a multimillionaire and currently resides with one of the wealthiest singers globally.

Paul, 41, is scheduled to release his new memoir, Lucky Me, next week. In it, he writes about his life.”I was never able to experience being a child,” he writes. 

“Crack was so strong that it accelerated my adolescence and destroyed my mother’s love.” I had to immediately mature from a cub to a young wolf.

Paul was raised on Cleveland’s East Side neighborhood of Glenville. His mother, whom he calls “Peaches,” was heavily dependent on drugs, and his father, Rich Paul Sr., served as the family’s calming force. His parents were not married.

At one point, when his GPA dropped to 1.4, his father even threatened to shoot him, “like Marvin Gaye’s father did,” if he continued to fail school.

‘You keep this up, man, I’m going to take you out of this planet,’ declared Paul Sr. I am informing you of what is about to occur. I refuse to spend even a single day in jail for it. I’m going to show you what happens when you continue to treat me disrespectfully. He says, “I’ll show you what disrespect is all about.”

Paul claims that the father’s threat was successful.

“That instant altered the course of my life,” he writes.

His grade point average quickly recovered and never dropped below 3.6.

When a girl informed Paul, at the age of 14, halfway through a basketball game, that he had gotten her buddy pregnant, Paul experienced yet another shock.

Paul thought back to his childhood experiences with sex as the girl had an abortion.

“I learned a lot of valuable things, but one of them was not healthy sexual habits,” the author adds.

“Most of the information my friends and I acquired about sex was incorrect.” We believed that having sex with more girls correlated with having higher prestige.It resembled an illness.

We were spending five or six hundred dollars on them every time, getting them everything. I may have run out of chicken McNuggets at McDonald’s since I spent so much money there.

“We saw sex as transactional or as a way to show off our status, instead of as an act rooted in love and commitment,” the author writes. “All we were doing was setting up a toxic dynamic that for some of us has lasted a lifetime.”

With Adele, whom he began seeing in 2021, Paul resides in a $58 million mega house in Beverly Hills. His estimated net worth as of right now is $120 million.

Their marital status is unknown, despite the fact that Adele, who acknowledges that she is “obsessed” with him and that she is “as happy as she will ever be,” has called him her “husband” and herself “wife” twice in recent weeks.

Paul acknowledges that he has “constant suspicion and hyperawareness” as a result of his difficult upbringing. Furthermore, he argues that despite his newfound extreme affluence, he still gets fleasy around loud noises because he grew up around gunfire.  

He talks about lying down to witness a street firefight that he was caught in the middle of.

He writes: “My fight-or-flight response activates whenever I hear a loud noise or see someone running while I’m out and about in Beverly Hills today.” 

“I never want to find myself in that area of no man’s land.”

Paul writes in his memoir about growing up in a one-bedroom flat above his father’s candy store in the 1980s. 

‘Unless you went through it, you truly don’t know’ is how he writes, candidly describing how the crack epidemic affected his early years.

“We had to fend for ourselves when she was using,” he adds, referring to his mother. This is the reason he says, “I feel like I never got the chance to be a kid.” 

Paul talks of’strange sounds’ emanating from his mother’s room and of finding bags full of drug paraphernalia at his house.

He writes, “I had no idea my life was profoundly f*** up.”

Paul tells the story of witnessing his mother disparaging other women that his father had slept with.

He remembered his mother “dragging these women outside and beating them down, wreaking havoc,” before going inside and destroying the convenience shop.

Paul’s grandma Ruth brought him, his brother Meco, and sister Brandie back to St. Louis in 1990 when Paul was eight years old.

When he started playing basketball in middle school, he discovered he was naturally skilled at the sport. 

Meco started selling drugs in the meantime, setting him on a course that would ultimately land him in jail.

Paul experienced a ‘overwhelming sense of melancholy’ upon realizing that Peaches had moved out and was living alone in her empty home.

He writes, “I never knew what would happen with her next.”

Paul started selling marijuana for $20 a bag, and soon enough money was “piling up” to enable him to purchase ostentatious luxury clothing.

He was so wealthy that in the seventh grade, he purchased his first pistol, customized his bicycle for $2,000, and spent $700 on a pullover.

However, his father pushed him to attend Benedictine, a private Roman Catholic high school, since he wanted him to get a decent education.