Jessica Simpson says she was ‘saddened beyond belief’ when Nick Lachey started dating after their split in 2006 in new entries to her memoir
Jessica Simpson was ‘saddened beyond belief’ when Nick Lachey started dating after their split.
The 40-year-old pop star was married to Nick between 2002 and 2006, and has admitted to being shocked at just how quickly he moved on from their romance with his now-wife Vanessa.
‘So, Nick, you’re with another already? Seems that you forgot the love you spoke to me. I’m saddened beyond belief. Alone in the dark, with no one to call my own,’ she wrote in the paperback edition of her 2020 memoir, Open Book – which includes previously-unseen journal entries.
Heartbreak: Jessica Simpson was ‘saddened beyond belief’ when Nick Lachey started dating after their split. The 40-year-old pop star was married to Nick between 2002 and 2006, and has admitted to being shocked at just how quickly he moved on from their romance with his now-wife Vanessa. Seen in 2005
Painful: ‘So, Nick, you’re with another already? Seems that you forgot the love you spoke to me. I’m saddened beyond belief. Alone in the dark, with no one to call my own,’ she wrote in the paperback edition of her memoir, Open Book – which includes previously-unseen journal entries
Nick, 47, started dating Vanessa less than a year after his split from the Jessica and the pair went on to tie the knot in 2011 and now have kids Camden, eight, Brooklyn, six, and Phoenix, four, together.
In her book, Jessica described Nick as her ‘first love’.
The blonde beauty – who previously admitted to being a virgin before their marriage – wrote: ‘Nick loved the fact I was so strong in my faith and that I had this wide-eyed innocent approach to life. When he proposed in 2002, I said yes.’
He loved that she was innocent: The blonde beauty – who previously admitted to being a virgin before their marriage – wrote: ‘Nick loved the fact I was so strong in my faith and that I had this wide-eyed innocent approach to life. When he proposed in 2002, I said yes.’ Seen in 2006
The woman that won his heart: Lachey and TV Personality Vanessa Minnillo in February 2020 in New York
Jessica also insisted she remains respectful of her ex-husband.
The singer – who has Maxwell, eight, Ace, seven, and Birdie, two, with her husband, Eric Johnson – said: ‘I was really young and my success hadn’t really begun.
‘He knew me as this young, innocent 18 year old that had never been introduced to the world in so many ways. I went straight from my father to him.
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‘Nick’s very smart. He was eight years older than me, but he was also young,’ said the siren.
‘We meant a lot to each other and we always will. I want to be very respectful because I married him for a reason and we were together for seven years for a reason.
‘He has a family now and I would never say anything to disrespect that.’
Entertainment Tonight first broke the news of the new journal entries.
Happy family: She and husband Eric Johnson have three kids: Maxwell, Ace and Birdie Mae