{"id":286928,"date":"2020-01-22T14:24:04","date_gmt":"2020-01-22T21:24:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/b1114656"},"modified":"2020-01-22T14:24:04","modified_gmt":"2020-01-22T21:24:04","slug":"revisit-jessica-simpsons-star-studded-dating-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/music-news\/revisit-jessica-simpsons-star-studded-dating-history\/","title":{"rendered":"Revisit Jessica Simpson&#8217;s Star-Studded Dating History"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/akns-images.eonline.com\/eol_images\/Entire_Site\/2017611\/rs_600x600-170711121944-600.Jessica-Simpson-Nick-Lachey.ms.071117.jpg?fit=around|600:467&amp;crop=600:467;center,top&amp;output-quality=90\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p>The two singers dated&nbsp;on and off for almost a year since summer of 2016, several months following her split from husband&nbsp;<strong>Nick Lachey<\/strong>.&nbsp;Simpson opened up about her relationship with Mayer in her 2020 memoir,&nbsp;<em>Open Book<\/em>. She said he&nbsp;repeatedly told her&nbsp;&#8220;he was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1114592\/jessica-simpson-reveals-ex-john-mayer-was-obsessed-with-her-sexually-and-emotionally\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">obsessed with me, sexually and emotionally<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Mayer had told <em>Playboy<\/em> in&nbsp;2010 that Simpson was like&nbsp;&#8220;crack cocaine&#8221; to him, adding, &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/166523\/john-mayer-jessica-simpson-was-sexual-napalm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Sexually it was crazy<\/a>. That&#8217;s all I&#8217;ll say. It was like napalm, sexual napalm.&#8221; This did not sit well with his ex.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He thought that was what I wanted to be called,&#8221; Simpson said in her memoir.&nbsp;&#8220;I was floored and embarrassed that my grandmother was actually gonna read that.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Two years later, Mayer expressed regret about his comments, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/317789\/john-mayer-regrets-tmi-comments-he-made-about-jessica-simpson-and-jennifer-aniston\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">telling NPR<\/a>, &#8220;I had nothing to say. I was going through a time in my life where I didn&#8217;t really want to share what was going on, but I didn&#8217;t want to be boring.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Simpson also said in her book that&nbsp;she was constantly worried&nbsp;she&nbsp;&#8220;wasn&#8217;t smart enough&#8221; for Mayer, adding, &#8220;My anxiety would spike and I would pour another drink. It was the start of me relying on alcohol to mask my nerves.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1114656\/revisit-jessica-simpson-s-star-studded-dating-history?cmpid=rss-000000-rssfeed-365-topstories&#038;utm_source=eonline&#038;utm_medium=rssfeeds&#038;utm_campaign=rss_topstories\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: E! Online<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The two singers dated&nbsp;on and off for almost a year since summer of 2016, several months following her split from husband&nbsp;Nick Lachey.&nbsp;Simpson opened up about her relationship with Mayer in her 2020 memoir,&nbsp;Open Book. She said he&nbsp;repeatedly told her&nbsp;&#8220;he was obsessed with me, sexually and emotionally.&#8221; Mayer had told Playboy in&nbsp;2010 that Simpson was like&nbsp;&#8220;crack [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-286928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-music-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-10-04 01:16:39","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KIDN - The Lift FM","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286928","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=286928"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286928\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=286928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=286928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=286928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}