Jessica Simpson drops new song about cheating after shocking Eric Johnson divorce: ‘Unholy matrimony’

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Jessica Simpson, 44, who announced her divorce from husband Eric Johnson, 45, in January, dropped her new single “Leave” on Friday.The breakup song — off of her upcoming EP “Nashville Canyon: Part 1” — hints at the demise of a relationship due to infidelity.“What we had was magic/ Now you’ve made it tragic/ Giving her what you gave to me/ Now the well that you drank from’s empty,” Simpson sings on the track.“Your weakness made me lonely/ Unholy matrimony/ Did you do to her what you did to me?/ Was she on her knees?”Later in the tune, the actress belts out that she would rather be by herself. “We’re not doing this again/ I, I want you to leave/ I don’t even want to breathe the air you breathe/I’d rather die/ Than let you be inside me with her on your mind/ I am stronger on my own/ So I’m letting you go.”Simpson got candid on the making of “Leave” in a behind-the-scenes YouTube video.“Leave is a hard lyric for me to write,” she admitted in the Friday clip. “It was tapping into some stuff that was scary to tap into.

But I needed to get it out.”“After writing all the lyrics and the melodies I realized like ‘Why would I want to show off,'” Simpson continued. “There’s so much power in being able to be subtle.

And that’s probably the best lesson I’ve had in this whole process. Is that, music is about communicating, not yelling at people.” In January, the artist announced she and Johnson were divorcing 10 years after tying the knot in 2014.

They are parents of three kids: daughters Maxwell, 12, and Birdie, 5, and son Ace, 11.“Eric and I have been living separately navigating a painful situation in our marriage,” Simpson told People at the time. “Our children come first, and we are focusing on what is best for them.