Jessica Simpson admitted an "emotional affair" with this co-star

"He believed in me and made me feel that I could do everything," wrote the singer about her camouflage.


When Jessica Simpson titled his 2020 Memories Open book , she wanted it. In this document, the singer writes on her relations with several famous men, including her ex-husband Nick Lachey and ex-friendly friend John Mayer , his Alcoholism experience and travel to sobriety, and she struggle with body image . Simpson even reveals the details of what she nicknamed an "emotional affair" with one of her 2005 film co-stars The Dukes of Hazzard . Read the rest to discover who Simpson approached and what she had to say about their significant connection.

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Simpson was married in Lachey for three years.

Jessica Simpson and Nick Lachey at the premiere of
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Simpson married his compatriot Pop Lachey in 2002. Soon, the two had their own MTV reality TV show on their relationship: New newlyweds: Nick and Jessica . But, their marriage quickly collapsed and she asked for divorce at the end of 2005.

In the book, Simpson says that Lachey tried to make her stay in marriage even after depositing the paperwork. "He didn't love me so I didn't understand what he was trying to save," she wrote ( via yahoo! ). She says that she said to him: "Love is not enough. If love was enough, I would remain forever, but it is not enough. We must love ourselves."

It has been deeply connected to a co-star.

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Towards the end of 2004, Simpson began to film The Dukes of Hazzard and has trained a link with the co-star Johnny Knoxville . At the time, he was married to Melanie Clapp .

Simpson said that she had developed feelings for Knoxville, because he supported her and that she could be herself around him. She didn't feel that about Lachey.

"I could share my deepest authentic thoughts with him, and he didn't drive my eyes," she wrote Open book ( Going through People ). "He really liked that I was smart and that I was kissed my vulnerabilities. He believed in me and made me feel that I could do everything."

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Their relationship has never become physical.

Seann William Scott, Jessica Simpson, and Johnny Knoxville at MuchMusic Studios in 2005
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Simpson explains in his book ( Via E! New ) that when it comes to Knoxville, she "felt a force attracting them) together". She continues: "I was wondering why I was open to that. I already lived in a suspicious situation with Nick, and now I was afraid of not trusting myself." AE0FCC31AE342FD3A1346EBB1F342FCB

But, she says, the connection was purely emotional. "First of all, we were both married, so it was not going to become physical," she shares. "But for me, an emotional affair was worse than physical. It's funny, I know, because I had put such an accent on sex in not before marriage. After having sex, I understood that the emotional part was what counted. Johnny and I had that, who seemed much more a betrayal at my marriage than sex. "

They even wrote to each other.

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Simpson and Knoxville remained in contact via letters after the filming of the wrapped film, according to Simpson.

She writes in Open book That they were like "prison friends" who were separated. "We wrote these love letters flowering from front to back, often at night with Nick vanished in the bed next to me," she writes ( Via TOOFAB ). "We talked about music, and I listened to the Johnny Cash Songs he suggested just to feel like we were always together. ""

Finally, she realized that she had to stop communicating with him. "I started to realize that contact with him was an addiction, and I would make these great statements that each time was the last time," she wrote. "I was grateful that he widened my vision of the world and made me appreciate so many things about culture, but I needed to get away. It was not a game."

All those involved have gone to new relationships.

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Simpson and Knoxville have never come out. She married her current husband, former football player Eric Johnson , in 2014. Knoxville and Clapp divorced in 2009, and he continued to get married Naomi nelson In 2010, however He asked for divorce Earlier this year. As for Lachey, he married the television host Vanessa Lachey in 2011.


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