Jessica Simpson at the ‘Open Book’ photocall, February 2020. Cindy Barrymore/Shutterstock
Still an open e-book. Jessica Simpson is sharing intimate particulars of her past in her Movie Star: They Always Say They’re Single essay — together with an infamous affair she had with an unnamed film star.
“This megastar, who I grew up pondering was so scorching, eyeballed me up and down. Like he was undressing me with his eyes,” Simpson, 42, wrote in her Amazon essay, which was printed on Wednesday, February 1, of the twosome’s first meeting on the 2001 Video Music Awards.
The pair rapidly hit it off as the “Take My Breath Away” singer navigated considered one of her breakups from ex-husband Nick Lachey. (Simpson and Lachey, 49, have been married between 2002 and 2006 after an on-and-off romance.)
The Texas native — who didn’t additional identify her mystery man — initially “wasn’t ready” to take issues further following the VMAs afterparty, but later bumped into him once more on the gym in Los Angeles. There, she invited him to star in considered one of her upcoming music movies.
“‘You might be my lead guy,’ I provided to this man who made hundreds of thousands and tens of millions per film,” she claimed in Wednesday’s essay.
The twosome’s connection didn’t go any further as Simpson reconciled with Lachey in September 2001, with the Employee of the Month star declining to call the actor again. However, as soon as Simpson and Lachey divorced, she reconnected along with her mystery man, who allegedly first kissed her on the Beverly Hills Hilton.
“I felt this heat rush all the best way down my physique to the ideas of my toes in my wedges,” the Open Book writer wrote.
Despite an intense first kiss, Simpson was heartbroken when saw purple carpet pics of her supposed beau and his then-girlfriend.
“I was never ever in one million years going to be the opposite girl,” she claimed, asserting that the film star informed her their relationship was “completely over” and he was only excited about pursuing Simpson.
The twosome went on to embark on a whirlwind romance, attending occasions at nightclubs collectively and bonding over the delivery of Simpson’s goddaughter. The designer even visited her man on a movie set, however, that journey made her really feel like she was only there to “have sex” with her famous fling.
“Yes, there was something attractive and engaging about all this, however there was additionally one thing demeaning about it. I felt like a call woman,” Simpson recalled in the passage, noting it felt like he was making an attempt to “hide” her from his “chick.” She continued: “I didn’t care if he was my teenage fantasy come to life, this was not a choice that very same girl, my younger self, would be happy with.”
Jessica Simpson at a meet and greet in New Jersey, Feb 2020. Paul Zimmerman/Shutterstock
The Newlyweds alum left his room the next day and broke off their romance. Simpson — who has beforehand been linked to John Mayer, Jensen Ackles, Johnny Knoxville and Tony Romo — married former football player Eric Johnson in 2014.
“I don’t feel like our marriage has been long, however I feel like I’ve loved Eric my complete life,” the Dukes of Hazzard star— who shares daughters Maxwell, 10, and Birdie, 3, and son Ace, 9, along with her partner — completely gushed to Us Weekly in April 2022. “I guess in the moment I met him, it felt like a wedding.”
She continued on the time: “We not often battle. If we do, it’s extra conversational, and it’s not like, ‘He’s proper or she’s right.’ It’s not about successful.”
