Nick Lachey Shares Rare Comments About Marriage to Ex-Wife Jessica Simpson

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Nick Lachey is looking back at the end of his marriage to Jessica Simpson. If you didn’t know, Nick, now 51, and Jessica, now 44, started dating shortly after they met at the Hollywood Christmas Parade in 1998.

They married in 2002 and divorced in 2005. In season three of The Ultimatum, which was released on Netflix on Wednesday (December 4), Nick shared some very rare comments about his divorce from Jessica. Keep reading to find out more…“I, too, was previously married, divorced, so I understand the hurt, the scars that exist from that,” Nick said, per E!

News. Nick went on to say that he put his fears aside when he met and then ultimately married now-wife Vanessa Lachey in 2011. “Don’t let your past define your future,” he added. Nick continued, “What I truly always wanted in my life, which was to have a beautiful marriage and a beautiful family, if I hadn’t retained my belief in that, I wouldn’t have ever realized the beautiful life I have with this woman.” Nick and Vanessa, 44, share sons Camden, 12, and Phoenix, 7, along with daughter Brooklyn, 9. Jessica has been married to husband Eric Johnson since 2014 and they share daughters Maxwell, 12, and Birdie, 5, and son Ace, 11. Nick previously reacted to all the bombshells Jessica dropped about their relationship in her 2020 memoir Open Book.