Jessica Simpson didn't stock everything successful her best-selling memoir Open Book. In a caller abbreviated communicative for Amazon Original Stories, the vocalist elaborate a concealed romance she had with a "massive movie star" years ago. The entertainer reveals a batch astir their romance — however they met, wherever they kissed for the archetypal clip and however things ended — but she didn't uncover the enigma man's name.
In the short story, appropriately titled Movie Star, Simpson said it each began successful aboriginal September 2001 astatine MTV VMAs after-party. She was connected a interruption from boyfriend Nick Lachey and was a blistery commodity successful the industry.
"I was dodging calls from 2 boybanders, 1 from NSync, the different from Backstreet Boys," she wrote.
Simpson was besides dodging immoderate euphony executives astatine the bash erstwhile her bodyguard, who was besides the star's trainer, recognized a celebrated look successful the crowd.
"This is Jessica," the bodyguard said arsenic helium introduced her to Movie Star.
"I know," replied the actor.
"He gave maine a antithetic hug — a modified personage clasp helium held a fewer seconds longer than I expected. As our communal friend, my bodyguard, talked, this megastar, who I grew up reasoning was truthful hot, eyeballed maine up and down. Like helium was undressing maine with his eyes," Simpson wrote.
Movie Star and Simpson engaged successful immoderate tiny speech and she thought, "This is what it's similar to beryllium deed on." The vocalist said that different than Lachey, "no antheral had ever been truthful up beforehand astir looking astatine maine successful a provocative way. At slightest that I wanted to look astatine maine that way. He placed a manus connected my hep and leaned successful truthful I could perceive him better."
The 2 soon ran into each different astatine gym successful Los Angeles wherever she got Movie Star's fig — but didn't call. Simpson yet reconciled with Lachey days aboriginal connected Sept. 11, 2001. As she documented in Open Book, the 2 went connected to get joined and spell done a precise nationalist divorce. She recovered herself precise azygous again successful 2006.
In Simpson's abbreviated story, she coyly talked astir dodging advances from immoderate beauteous celebrated men aft splitting from Lachey. One feline she dubbed RomCom, "a handsome romantic-comedy actor" and "aw-shucks southerner," slipped her a edifice cardinal without saying a word. But according to Simpson, it was "the guys who treated maine similar matrimony material" who were "more dangerous."
"A shaper type" told Simpson helium had a enigma bachelor to acceptable her up with. "I person idiosyncratic who's been aft you forever, and you don't adjacent cognize it," the idiosyncratic said. The antheral "got retired his Nokia" and ended up connecting Simpson with Movie Star.
Simpson concisely met with the enigma histrion astatine the Beverly Hills Hotel portion helium got acceptable for an awards show. In 1 of the bungalows, they kissed for the archetypal time.
"I felt this lukewarm unreserved each the mode down my body, to the tips of my toes successful my wedges," Simpson recalled.
"He texted maine passim the awards show. The lawsuit was truthful immense that it made maine consciousness peculiar that each beauteous pistillate successful Hollywood was determination and helium wanted me. In fact, determination was 1 different beauteous pistillate successful his life: his girlfriend," she wrote. "Shortly after, I saw a photograph of Movie Star connected a reddish carpet with her. I was ne'er ever successful a cardinal years going to beryllium the different woman."
Movie Star convinced Simpson the narration was "completely" over, but helium didn't privation the property to know. The 2 continued their courtship and hung retired unneurotic astatine clubs astir Los Angeles and Movie Star did not fell that helium was pursuing the singer.
"Whereas a batch of guys were told by their absorption teams to steer wide of maine oregon get sucked into my fame vortex, helium was a seasoned vet successful Hollywood, with a fame that was overmuch greater than mine," Simpson teased. "He had already achieved levels of occurrence that cipher would ever obtain, truthful helium didn't truly person radical telling him what to do. And I really liked that astir him. He was precise authentic."
Another hint arsenic to the actor's identity: Simpson noted they "had antithetic faiths, but the aforesaid reverence for God." Movie Star seemingly talked to a spiritual healer astir however helium wanted to person enactment with the Newlyweds star.
Simpson emphasized that portion they were intimate, the 2 did not person enactment — but not for deficiency of trying connected Movie Star's part. He flew her connected a backstage pitchy to the eastbound seashore for a romanticist rendezvous portion helium filmed a movie. As their concealed narration continued, the histrion recalled gathering him astatine a hotel, but she was directed to spell up the occurrence stairs to scope his room. Later, she realized that was due to the fact that helium wanted to "hide maine from his chick" not the press.
"There was immoderate play betwixt them, and I was not going to beryllium a portion of it anymore. I experienced him successful a truly amusive carnal and flirtatious aboveground way, but present I would beryllium sinning against each pistillate successful the world, and that didn't consciousness good," Simpson continued. She did not footwear Movie Star retired of her room, but "we didn't person sex." Simpson wanted to extremity things connected her terms.
"He had lied to me, saying I was the lone one, but I was honorable with myself. So, maybe, going forward, I didn't request to consciousness arsenic insecure arsenic I thought I was," Simpson shared. She near the adjacent time without saying a connection to the unnamed actor. "That was the archetypal clip I ever felt genuinely empowered since I was married, and it was excavation alone."
Simpson didn't permission bare handed, though.
"I needed a trophy for this achievement, truthful I took the pillowcase helium slept on. I didn't attraction if it was creepy oregon if helium had to wage for it... and it would nonstop the message: this was fun, but present I person a representation of you," Simpson wrote.
Movie Star called her, but she didn't prime up.
"Why would you permission me?" helium asked connected a voicemail. "I can't judge you conscionable up and near maine similar this."
Simpson said that "was the commencement of maine learning to emotion myself fully." The histrion recovered idiosyncratic to emotion her fully, too. Simpson has been joined to NFL subordinate Eric Johnson since 2014. They stock 3 children: Maxwell, 10, Ace, 9, and Birdie, 3.