{"id":287803,"date":"2020-02-06T13:26:00","date_gmt":"2020-02-06T20:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/b1120297"},"modified":"2020-02-06T13:26:00","modified_gmt":"2020-02-06T20:26:00","slug":"jessica-simpson-sets-the-record-straight-on-newlyweds-role-in-her-divorce-from-nick-lachey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/music-news\/jessica-simpson-sets-the-record-straight-on-newlyweds-role-in-her-divorce-from-nick-lachey\/","title":{"rendered":"Jessica Simpson Sets the Record Straight on Newlyweds&#8217; Role in Her Divorce From Nick Lachey"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"photo-txt-0\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"44.3203125\">\n<div class=\"column post-content__image--left post-content__image\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"32\"> <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image--full\" src=\"https:\/\/akns-images.eonline.com\/eol_images\/Entire_Site\/2017611\/rs_634x1024-170711121944-634.Jessica-Simpson-Nick-Lachey.ms.071117.jpg?fit=inside|900:auto&amp;output-quality=90\" title=\"Jessica Simpson, Nick Lachey\" alt=\"Jessica Simpson, Nick Lachey\"><\/p>\n<p class=\"image__credits\">Jeffrey Mayer\/WireImage.com<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-photo-text\" readability=\"29.512626262626\">\n<p>It&#8217;s been 15 years since <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/jessica_simpson\">Jessica Simpson<\/a><\/strong> and <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/nick_lachey\">Nick Lachey<\/a><\/strong>&#8216;s show <em>Newlyweds<\/em> ended.<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday&#8217;s episode of BuzzFeed News&#8217; <em>AM to DM<\/em>, the 39-year-old celebrity looked back at the MTV series and responded to speculation that the program led to the stars&#8217; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1119624\/jessica-simpson-wishes-she-signed-a-prenup-before-marrying-nick-lachey\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">divorce<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t believe that the show is what tore our marriage apart,&#8221; she said. &#8220;Nick and I were very great at being together publicly and on-camera. We were best at our relationship when we were singing together. I felt like we were at home in that place. But as far as doing the reality show, we just kind of had fun with it until the end\u2014until we started having marital problems.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The &#8220;Take My Breath Away&#8221; singer said she &#8220;just can&#8217;t lie to people&#8221; and recalled feeling &#8220;phony&#8221; once there was trouble in paradise.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I didn&#8217;t want to continue on with that,&#8221; she said. &#8220;It wasn&#8217;t real anymore. It wasn&#8217;t reality. It wasn&#8217;t who we were. There was lots of eye-rolling and that was real stuff.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Still, Simpson doesn&#8217;t have any regrets about doing the show.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;No, absolutely not,&#8221; she replied when asked the question. &#8220;I feel like that was my way to connect with people.&#8221;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Although, she admitted <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/865787\/jessica-simpson-still-poking-fun-at-herself-for-chicken-of-the-sea-joke\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">that chicken-tuna moment<\/a> still &#8220;haunts me.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"text-2\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"60.058346839546\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-text-only\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"16.891410048622\">\n<p>Both Simpson and Lachey re-married after the split. Simpson is now married to <strong>Eric Johnson<\/strong> and Lachey is now married to <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/vanessa_lachey\">Vanessa Lachey<\/a><\/strong>. In fact, the <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/98_degrees\">98 Degrees<\/a><\/strong> artist and his leading lady are hosting a new Netflix show called <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1118930\/watch-nick-lachey-and-vanessa-lachey-s-awkward-reaction-to-jessica-simpson-mention\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>Love Is Blind<\/em>.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>After learning about the series, Simpson said she wished them well.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The thing is, like, it&#8217;s been so many years since we&#8217;ve been divorced, and I&#8217;m at that place in my life where I am so happy for him,&#8221; she said. &#8220;I&#8217;m glad that he found happiness. I&#8217;m glad that he has joy and it wasn&#8217;t all pain, and you can see it was meant to be. We had other lives that were waiting for us.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"video-int-txt-3\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"28.8\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-video-text\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"3.6\">\n<p>Simpson also opened up about her history with her ex in her&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1119283\/jessica-simpson-s-memoir-bombshells-nick-lachey-divorce-johnny-knoxville-emotional-affair-and-more\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">new memoir<\/a> <em>Open Book<\/em>, which is out now.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"text-5\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"56.5\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-text-only\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"3\">\n<p>To watch her full interview, check out the video above.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"tune-in-6\" 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 Thursday, Feb. 6 at 10:30 p.m.!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1120297\/jessica-simpson-sets-the-record-straight-on-newlyweds-role-in-her-divorce-from-nick-lachey?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>Jeffrey Mayer\/WireImage.com It&#8217;s been 15 years since Jessica Simpson and Nick Lachey&#8216;s show Newlyweds ended. On Thursday&#8217;s episode of BuzzFeed News&#8217; AM to DM, the 39-year-old celebrity looked back at the MTV series and responded to speculation that the program led to the stars&#8217; divorce.&nbsp; &#8220;I don&#8217;t believe that the show is what tore our [&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-287803","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-music-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-10-01 05:06:02","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\/287803","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=287803"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287803\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=287803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=287803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=287803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}