![]() The singer decided it was time to get sober in 2017 after she and her husband hosted a Halloween party. But the cumulative effects of drinking over the course of years was affecting her health. “I was killing myself with all the drinking and pills,” she writes in Open Book. Simpson says she turned to alcohol and pills to help her cope with the pressure of her career as well as the unaddressed emotional wounds from her childhood abuse. Burying her trauma led her to self-medicate. RELATED: Jessica Simpson Stays Positive In Last Stretch Of Her Pregnancy 4. Her mother said to her father, "I told you something was happening.” They never visited those family friends again, but Simpson says they also never spoke about it again. ![]() She was twelve when she finally said something to them. But it took her years to gather the courage to tell her parents due to her fear that she would somehow be blamed. "It would start with tickling my back and then go into things that were extremely uncomfortable,” she recalls. That girl touched her inappropriate ways. She and her family would visit friends of her parents and when they stayed over, Simpson revealed she would share a bed with another girl. One of the major traumas Simpson talks about in her memoir is the sexual abuse that happened when she was six years old. She also confessed she was sexually abused as a very young child. He was so clever and treated conversation like a friendly competition that he had to win.” She drank to overcome her anxiety about impressing him and that started her on the road to an addiction to alcohol.ģ. But she was also intimidated by him. “I constantly worried that I wasn’t smart enough for him. The relationship had a lot of intensity, Simpson recalls. “Again and again, told me he was obsessed with me, sexually and emotionally,” she remembers. She started dating the singer/songwriter shortly after her divorce but she never felt fully confident around him. She was finally ready to open up about some of the most intimate episodes in her life, including her tumultous relationship with John Mayer. Now 39 years old, Simpson says that she was originally contracted five years ago to write a motivational book but she couldn't bring herself to write a book about living your best life when she knew all of her own darkest secrets. In her new memoir, Simpson finally addresses her past relationships. RELATED: 11 Celebrity Singers Who Tried To Go Country, Y'all 2. They have since had a third child, daughter Birdie, in 2019. In 2010, she started dating Eric Johnson, a former football player and the couple had daughter Maxwell in 2012 and son Ace in 2013 before they married in 2014. She was in several high-profile relationships with men including John Mayer and NFL Player Tony Romo. She made a few forays into movie acting with roles in Employee of the Month and the Dukes of Hazard movie. In the years after her reality show, Simspon focused less on music and more on her very successful fashion and lifestyle brand. Both saw their music careers improve but their marriage couldn't stand up to the strain. Simpson became an immediate fan favorite due to her lovable but ditzy personality. The couple married in 2002 and started on their reality TV odyssey. ![]() She met Nick Lachey, a fellow boy band member from 98 Degrees that same year. Her first album was released in 1999 when she was only 19 years old. She was signed with a gospel label but eventually transitioned to pop music. Ultimately, she didn't make the cut and returned home to continue pursuing music. When she was twelve, she auditioned for the new Mickey Mouse Club show and was up against talents like Justin Timberlake and Britney Spears in the audition. Simpson grew up in Texas and began singing in church when she was very young. Jessica Simpson rose to fame thanks to her music career and her reality show. Keep reading for the most shocking revelations from Jessica Simpson's new memoir. Now in a new memoir, Open Book, she is talking for the first time about her addiction to alcohol and pills as well as some of the pain that led her to self-medicate. After several high-profile relationships with other famous men like John Mayer and Tony Romo, Simpson settled down with former NFL tight end Eric Johnson, with whom she now shares three children.īut Simpson's charmed life was hiding some dark secrets. Simpson, however, parlayed her fame from the show into a fashion label and lifestyle brand that is now estimated to be worth over a billion dollars. The marriage didn't last and the pair divorced in 2006.
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