Jessica Simpson doesn’t kiss and tell, at least not publicly.
In “Movie Star: They Always Say They’re Single,” a new short written for Amazon Original Stories, Simpson revealed that she was in a relationship with the actor of her dreams, only to find out that he was in a relationship always. Simpson said it “sounded like a call.”
Although she gave only vague descriptions of the man, Simpson wrote that he had made “millions and millions of movies” and that they met at the 2001 MTV Video Music Awards. Simpson said she “grew up thinking” about the actor – which “Undressed him”. me with his eyes.”
She wasn’t “ready” for things to escalate, despite the fact that Simpson and 98 Degrees singer Nick Lachey, her then-boyfriend and future husband, were in the middle of a breakup at the time. Simpson writes that she didn’t even call out the A-lister after meeting him at the gym shortly after the VMAs. Their first kiss took place after she and Lachey finalized their divorce in 2006.
“I felt this heat running down my entire body down to my feathery toes,” Simpson wrote.
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Simpson said the actor assured her his relationship was “completely over” before they came to kiss, but she later found red carpet photos of him and his girlfriend. The relationship continued for a short time, but Simpson said she felt the actor was trying to “hide it”.
“The truth is, I was scared shitless and wanted to leave,” she wrote. “I still thought I was a total babe, but I wasn’t going to sleep with him. Yes, there was something sexy and seductive about it all, but there was also something degrading. It felt like a calling.”
Simpson said she “didn’t care if he was my teenage fantasy come to life” because messing up was not something her younger self “would be proud of”. She swore she would “never in a million years be the other woman” and eventually called things off.
Simpson was later romantically linked to other celebrities, including John Meyer and Adam Levine, according to Us Weekly. Finally, she married former NFL player Eric Johnson in 2014. They have three children and are still married today.
“I think the secret to a beautiful and loving marriage is understanding each other!” Simpson told People in 2020. “Don’t forget to kiss. It’s more intimate sometimes for a lot of people and if you forget that, you forget why you fell in love in the first place. It always starts with a kiss.”
