Jessica Simpson's Son Got His First Haircut And People Had OPINIONS; Entertainment The Ellen DeGeneres Show. Jessica Simpson. I didn't know how much I was taking. She started drinking at 7 a.m. on Halloween in 2017 and got so inebriated she couldn't take care of her children.She struggled to tell her parents, particularly her father, who was a Baptist youth minister in Texas.The next day she quit drinking and began working with a therapist.Simpson eventually summoned the courage to tell her parents, who put a stop to the abuse.She also got married at 22 to Nick Lachey of the boy band 98 Degrees despite her father cautioning her that she was too young to tie the knot. "He was always there at the house as well, so he never touched me, but he would abuse her and then she would come to me and do the stuff to me and so, like, in so many ways I felt bad for her and I was allowing the abuse to happen. The mother of three wrote that the abuse began at a family friend's house when she was 6 and sharing a bed with the family's daughter.The 40-year-old artist told Katherine Schwarzenegger Pratt on Tuesday's episode of "The Gift of Forgiveness" podcast that she knew her abuser was also being abused and felt "bad for her. "I left it unsaid for far too long, but I knew that if I was honest with her, it would clear my conscience, and I even sent her the book and I told her that I hope it brings healing. Jessica Simpson is sharing more details about the sexual abuse she suffered as a child, revealing that she confronted her abuser eight years ago and decided to … I didn't show up for my family. I didn't take them trick-or-treating. ""He was supposed to be on the cover with me, and they were like, no," Simpson recalled. I took the picture and I made the world think that I showed up. "Giving up the alcohol was easy. I cannot stay in something and play a role. I went to her and I just said, 'I know you know what was going on and I know that you were being abused,' because she was being abused by an older guy," Simpson said. "He was always there at the house as well, so he never touched me, but he would abuse her and then she would come to me and do the stuff to me and so, like in so many ways I felt bad for her and I was allowing the abuse to happen. Jessica Simpson has revealed she was sexually abused as a 6-year-old by a family friend. "I honestly couldn't even tell you who got them ready,'' she said. "I had talked to her brother about it before and I talked to her mother as well. I had started a spiral, and I couldn't catch up with myself and that was with alcohol. "I was taught to be a virgin until I got married, and so I never wanted to share these sexual things that were happening because I didn't want to hurt anybody." It ended up being something I did for 20 years. Vanessa Lachey is clearing the air about an interview she gave earlier this week, in which she was asked about husband Nick Lachey‘s ex-wife, Jessica Simpson. I'm not a liar. "I can't even watch the interview,'' she said. "Simpson's issues with alcohol came years after she began struggles with her body image.
"I knew something was wrong.