Still an open book. Jessica Simpson is sharing intimate details of her past in her Movie Star: They Always Say They’re Single essay — including an infamous affair she had with an unnamed movie star.“This megastar, who I grew up thinking was so hot, eyeballed me up and down.
Like he was undressing me with his eyes,” Simpson, 42, wrote in her Amazon essay, which was published on Wednesday, February 1, of the twosome’s first meeting at the 2001 Video Music Awards.The pair quickly hit it off as the “Take My Breath Away” singer navigated one of her breakups from ex-husband Nick Lachey. (Simpson and Lachey, 49, were married between 2002 and 2006 after an on-and-off romance.)The Texas native — who did not further identify her mystery man — initially “wasn’t ready” to take things further following the VMAs afterparty, but later ran into him again at the gym in Los Angeles.
There, she invited him to star in one of her upcoming music videos.“‘You could be my lead guy,’ I offered to this man who made millions and millions per film,” she claimed in Wednesday’s essay.The twosome’s connection did not go any further as Simpson reconciled with Lachey in September 2001, with the Employee of the Month star declining to call the actor back.
However, once Simpson and Lachey divorced, she reconnected with her mystery man, who allegedly first kissed her at the Beverly Hills Hilton.“I felt this warm rush all the way down my body to the tips of my toes in my wedges,” the Open Book author wrote.Despite an intense first kiss, Simpson was heartbroken when saw red carpet pics of her supposed beau and his then-girlfriend.“I was never ever in a million years going to be the other woman,” she claimed, asserting that the movie star told her their
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