Jessica Simpson is getting ready to release her new memoir “Open Book,” on February 4th, and she certainly is taking the title seriously. In a new excerpt shared with “People” Jessica opens up about being sexually abused as a young child, as well as her struggles with alcohol and pills.
She writes that the sexual abuse started when she was six, “when I shared a bed with the daughter of a family friend,” explaining, “It would start with tickling my back and then go into things that were extremely uncomfortable.” Jessica felt it was her fault, sharing, “I wanted to tell my parents I was the victim but somehow I felt in the wrong.”
She eventually told her parents when she was 12, and apparently her mother had suspicions, telling her father, “I told you something was happening.” She says they never talked about it again, but they never stayed at the friends house again.
As for her addiction issues, she writes “I was killing myself with all the drinking and pills,” noting she’s been sober since November, 2017. “Giving up the alcohol was easy,” she says. “I was mad at that bottle. At how it allowed me to stay complacent and numb.”
Jessica also opens up in the book about her relationship with John Mayer, writing “he was obsessed with me, sexually and emotionally.” But Jess says she was “constantly worried that I wasn’t smart enough for him,” adding, “He was so clever and treated conversation like a friendly competition that he had to win.” She notes that all contact with Mayer ended when he called her “Sexual Napalm” in a 2010 “Playboy” interview. “He thought that was what I wanted to be called,” she writes. “I was floored and embarrassed that my grandmother was actually gonna read that.”
Source: People
