{"id":287394,"date":"2020-01-30T08:55:01","date_gmt":"2020-01-30T15:55:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/b1117722"},"modified":"2020-01-30T08:55:01","modified_gmt":"2020-01-30T15:55:01","slug":"jessica-simpson-doesnt-think-ex-john-mayer-will-be-shocked-by-her-memoir","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/music-news\/jessica-simpson-doesnt-think-ex-john-mayer-will-be-shocked-by-her-memoir\/","title":{"rendered":"Jessica Simpson Doesn&#8217;t Think Ex John Mayer Will Be &#8220;Shocked&#8221; By Her Memoir"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/akns-images.eonline.com\/eol_images\/Entire_Site\/2020022\/rs_600x600-200122105437-600-jessica-simpson.cm.12220.jpg?fit=around|600:467&amp;crop=600:467;center,top&amp;output-quality=90\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"video-int-txt-0\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"36.910140562249\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-video-text\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"21.711847389558\">\n<p>While <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/jessica_simpson\">Jessica Simpson<\/a><\/strong> did not tell <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/john_mayer\">John Mayer<\/a><\/strong> in advance that she would be discussing their past relationship in&nbsp;a memoir, she does not think he will be shocked by what she said.<\/p>\n<p>The 39-year-old singer and fashion designer and the 42-year-old musician&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1114656\/revisit-jessica-simpson-s-star-studded-dating-history\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">on-again, off-again romance<\/a> finally ended for good in 2007 after almost a year. In&nbsp;<em>Open Book<\/em>, Simpson says&nbsp;Mayer repeatedly told her &#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.&#8221;<\/a>&nbsp;She also details her <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1115724\/jessica-simpson-s-husband-eric-johnson-quit-drinking-in-solidarity-with-her\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">past drinking problem<\/a>&nbsp;and says&nbsp;she&nbsp;was constantly worried&nbsp;she&nbsp;&#8220;wasn&#8217;t smart enough&#8221; for him, 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>&#8220;I don&#8217;t think he&#8217;ll be shocked [by the book],&#8221; Simpson told the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/01\/29\/style\/jessica-simpson-memoir-alcohol-addiction.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>New York Times<\/em><\/a> in an interview posted on Wednesday. &#8220;He knows these stories.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>When asked how she would&nbsp;react if Mayer&nbsp;tries to use this spotlight to his advantage, she told the newspaper, &#8220;I don&#8217;t care.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Mayer has not commented on her memoir.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"text-2\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"53.831775700935\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-text-only\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"8.9719626168224\">\n<p>Simpson&nbsp;also says in the book that she was &#8220;floored&#8221; by his racy comments about her in a 2010&nbsp;<em>Playboy<\/em>&nbsp;interview, in which he said&nbsp;she was like&nbsp;&#8220;crack cocaine&#8221; to him, adding, &#8220;Sexually it was crazy. That&#8217;s all I&#8217;ll say. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1114656\/revisit-jessica-simpson-s-star-studded-dating-history#photo-758207\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">It was like napalm, sexual napalm<\/a>.&#8221;&nbsp;Two years later, Mayer expressed regret about his&nbsp;remarks.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"text-4\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"62\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-text-only\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"14\">\n<p>Simpson writes in her book that&nbsp;her therapist suggested that Mayer probably never loved her and was just obsessed with her.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Ooh, that broke me in half!&#8221; she said of the realization, according to the <em>New York Times<\/em>. &#8220;And that&#8217;s&nbsp;years&nbsp;into being married and having kids. And it was like, &#8216;Wow. I did this all for obsession? This was his way of loving me?&#8217; I think that it just never clicked until it was just blatantly said to me: That&#8217;s not love.&#8221;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Open Book<\/em> hits stores on Tuesday, February 4.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"tune-in-5\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"34\">\n<p class=\"tune-in__text\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\">Watch <i>E! News<\/i> weekday mornings at 7 a.m. and don&#8217;t miss our <i>2020 Oscars: E&#8217;s Inside Guide<\/i> special Friday, Feb. 7 at 11 p.m.!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1117722\/jessica-simpson-doesn-t-think-ex-john-mayer-will-be-shocked-by-her-memoir?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>While Jessica Simpson did not tell John Mayer in advance that she would be discussing their past relationship in&nbsp;a memoir, she does not think he will be shocked by what she said. The 39-year-old singer and fashion designer and the 42-year-old musician&#8217;s on-again, off-again romance finally ended for good in 2007 after almost a year. 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