Jessica Simpson returned with John Mayer 9 times before deleting her number
The two musicians had an increasingly tumultuous relationship in the late years '00.
Despite incredibly different musical styles, the singers John Mayer And Jessica Simpson were gathered in a fiery and offbeat relationship for almost four years At the end of the 2000s . In its 2020 memories Open book , Simpson threw a flawless overview of the life inside the relationship, including the nine times that they separated before she finally decides that she does not return. Read more to find out why it was so difficult for her to move away from the obsessive relationship and how the infamous 2010 of Mayer Playboy The interview finally convinced him to delete his number.
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They met when Simpson was still married.
Simpson was still married to a first husband, 98 degrees Nick Lachey , when she met Mayer during a 2005 Grammys festival organized by Clive Davis . According to People ,, Mayer complied Simpson On his song "With You", and two began to write letters to each other. When Simpson and Lachey later divorced that year, she started going out with other men. But when the singer of the "girls" told him ", he wanted to have everything [she] or nothing," the two have become secretly exclusive before He confirmed the relationship - in Japanese - in an interview of 2007 with Ryan Seacrest .
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Mayer told Simpson that he was "obsessed" by her.
Simpson said in his book that his relationship with Mayer was characterized by a mixture of emotional distance and obsession. "He entered a room and would pick up his guitar and you would pass," she wrote, according to People . "I didn't really know the man behind the guitar. And it was my mission. Again, he told me that he was obsessed with me, sexually and emotionally."
As a quote by In the style , the pop star explained that Mayer's attachment Initially made it feel safe And gave him a confidence, because it was so different from his relationship with Lachey.
"I got up to go to the bathroom, and John asked:" Where are you going? "" Wrote Simpson. "While I was married, my ex-husband could not be disturbed to understand in which city I was."
What made him feel less safe is that Mayer has constantly tried to recover intellectually.
"He was so intelligent and treated the conversation as a friendly competition he had to win," she wrote by People .
Soon, she was so "constantly worried" that she was not intelligent enough for the singer "Body is a Wonderland" that she would have a friend who raised text messages before sending them and starting to use Alcohol to suppress anxiety.
They broke up nine times.
Mayer's relationship and Simpson ended for the first time in May 2007, according to In the style , but they ended up recovering together and breaking again eight times.
"" He would throw me away , then come back saying that he had discovered that he loved me after all: "Simpson wrote, by Yahoo!" I have always seen him like him who took me mercilessly from the cold. Whenever John came back, I thought it was a continuation of a love story, while my friends saw a guy come back for sex with a stupid girl. ""
The two stayed in contact even by seeing other people, including when Simpson came out Tony Romo , that she wrote broke with her after seeing Mayer's text. She came to regret the four years they spent in this cycle.
"He loved me as he could and I loved this love for a very long time," she told people. "Too long. And I went back and forth with that for a long time. But it controlled me."
She deleted her number after a shocking Playboy interview.
The straw that broke the back of the camel came in the form of the Mayer 2010 interview with Playboy , which took place for a period "deactivated" for him and Simpson, when he was involved with Jennifer Aniston . Among the other surprising quotes, Mayer went deeply on her obsession for Simpson: "This girl, for me, is a drug. And the drugs are not good for you if you do a lot. Yeah, this girl is like crack For me. "He also talked frankly about their sex life, saying:" Sexually, it was crazy. That's all I would say. It was like napalm, sexual napalm. " AE0FCC31AE342FD3A1346EBB1F342FCB
Simpson was mortified. "I was struck and embarrassed that my grandmother was actually reading it," she said People . But the cheeky comments ended up being what she needed to finally go from the earth burned on their relationship from this whole suite.
"I have not accepted her apologies," she wrote, by Yahoo!. "I deleted all his contact details from my phone. I finished with this man in a way that I would never have thought it was possible. When he contacted me, I changed my number and changed my email. Delete. "
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She later said that she felt "manipulated".
Now married to the former NFL player Eric Johnson , with whom she shares three children, Simpson said that a conversation with her therapist had opened her eyes to her the idea that Mayer felt for her was not love, but obsession, according to Yahoo! . She also reserved the right to openly discuss the ugly parts of her old relationship, despite public apology For his interview comments.
"I really don't think I owed public excuses," she said on Tamron Hall's Talk show (as cited by E! News) while Promote memories . "You cannot take it back. I am a very indulgent person, but I am as honest. So, in the memory, if I will talk about things that have caused me pain, I will be honest on this subject. And it was a moment of my life that I was very manipulated and very in love, or apparently. "
