""I was just in that place where I was celibate at the time and I was on this journey to explore myself and I knew that I couldn't move forward without letting her know that I wasn't going to just leave it unsaid," she said. After performing in church choirs as a child, Simpson signed with Columbia Records in 1997, at age 16. Jessica Ann Johnson (née Simpson; born July 10, 1981) is an American singer, actress, fashion designer, and author. Jessica Simpson says she has forgiven the unnamed woman who sexually abused her as a child. “And ‘I just want you to know that I forgive you and I don’t really care to be around you that much or ever again, but I do want you to know that I know what happened between us and I’m not going to live in denial about it. By signing up, you agree to our Filed Under: Uncategorized. "It would start with tickling my back and then go into things that were extremely uncomfortable," she wrote in the book, released in February.
"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. “I went to her and I just said, ‘I know you know what was going on and I know that you were being abused,’ ‘cause she was being abused by an older guy…he was always there at the house as well — he never touched me, but he would abuse her and then she would come to me and do the stuff to me. '”The stories you care about, delivered daily.Copyright © 2020 SheKnows Media, LLC, a subsidiary of Penske Business Media, LLC.
By signing up, you agree to our ""I even sent her the book and I told her that I hope that it brings healing," Simpson added of her recent memoir, Watch the video below for more on Simpson. I felt that maybe if I was honest and just surrendered and talked to the people that I knew were involved and I knew loved her that they could help her and I didn't have to anymore. About eight years ago, she said on the podcast, she confronted her abuser. "I had talked to her brother about it before and I talked to her mother as well.
"'I just want you to know that I forgive you and I don't really care to be around you that much ever again, but I do want you to know that I know what happened between us and I'm not gonna live in denial about it. And so in so many ways I felt bad for her and I was allowing the abuse to happen.”Empathizing with her abuser’s abusive experiences is already stunningly compassionate, but Simpson went even further, urging the woman to seek the same kind of treatment that she herself had found helpful, and — most shockingly of all — offering her forgiveness.“I told her in the moment, ‘I know that you have a lot to deal with’ and I told her that I think she should probably talk to someone and find a way to understand those moments and to forgive those moments and to heal from those moments,” said Simpson. "I left it unsaid for far too long. The Gift of Forgiveness podcast "explores what forgiveness means, how it … I even sent her the book and I told her that I hope that it brings healing.”Simpson decided to forgive the woman in order to help her own healing process as she recalled their conversation.“‘I just want you to know that I forgive you and I don’t really care to be around you that much ever again, but I do want you to know that I know what happened between us and I’m not gonna live in denial about it,'” she said she told the woman at the time.Simpson is currently married to Eric Johnson with whom she shares three kids. (Photo by Bryan Bedder/Getty Images)