When Richards and Hansen first met in 1979, he was immediately taken by her. "I was set up to see her, but it worked. I didn't know if she knew she was set up to see me," he said in an interview with Vanity Fair. "The moment I saw Patti, we looked at each other, and I said, 'Hello, something's happening to me.'"
But for Hansen, it was different altogether. She was more concerned about getting back to the dance floor after Richards gave her a bottle of champagne. It wasn't until Hansen went to Richard's 36th birthday party that they were finally on the same page (via Harper's Bazaar). "When Patti and I met it was just . . . boom," Richards described (via Vanity Fair). "There was life before Patti and life after. We just clicked, and she rescued me from, shall we say, dark periods . . . without going into too much detail."
While the model agrees somewhat, she makes it clear that she "joined in on Keith's frenzy too" due to the time period. "It was the '70s, so we can't say it was all Keith" (via Harper's Bazaar). However, she did note that Richards promised her mom that he'd take care of her. "So if I ever got really thin running around with him, he would take me off, put some weight on me," Hansen explained. "Keith promised my mom he would take care of me, and he did."
