Jessica Simpson and John Mayer broke up 9 times: Wild Romance reboot

when Jessica Simpson married Eric Johnson In July 2014, it looked as if to keep it, but with The couple announces their separation Nearly a decade later, on Monday, January 13, we remember the last time the singer suffered a public breakup. That would be her on-off relationship with john mayer, Which ended in 2010, just a few months before she met Johnson. Let's take a look at what happened during the unexpected union, including nine defections in four years.

How did you start?

Simpson, now 44, has helpfully told this tale — and many more! – In her very revealing 2020 autobiography, Open book. When she first met Mayer, now 47, it was in 2005 and she was still married to him Nick Lachey. Musicians who were very different in style were presented Clive Davispre-Grammy party, where Mayer complimented Simpson on her hit song “With You.” They became occasional pen pals, and then, when Simpson divorced Lachey in 2006 after four years of marriage, they began seeing each other in secret.

By early 2007, they were regularly spotted together, but only when Mayer interviewed Mayer. Ryan Seacrest At the Grammy Awards that year, he seemingly confirmed their relationship…except, in his quirky style, he did so in Japanese, saying words that roughly translated to “She's a beautiful woman, and I'm happy to be with her.” Oh-kayay.

How long did it last?

The couple's first breakup was widely reported in May 2007, but they soon got back together. In fact, Simpson recalled while promoting her book that they broke up eight more times before finally breaking up in 2010. “We were great at being intimate,” she said in 2020. today interview. “We were so wonderfully in love with each other. It was easy, but the relationship was so complicated. It was always on again, off again, on again. I came back almost nine times!”

How did it end?

Well, you probably know this part already. In a 2010 interview with Playboy Which quickly gained notoriety, Mayer would reveal a bit about his intoxicating relationship with Simpson, ruining all chances of them reuniting for the 10th time – thank goodness!

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“That girl to me is dope,” he said. “And drugs are no good for you if you do too much of them. Yeah, that girl is like cocaine to me. Sexually, it was crazy. That's all I'm going to say. It was like napalm, sexual napalm. Have you ever said, 'I want to leave my life?' And just smell you?” If you charge me $10,000 for yours, I'll start selling everything I have just to keep practicing with you.”

Understandably, the professionally hygienic Simpson wasn't happy about her being described in such outrageous terms (“I was shocked and embarrassed that my grandmother would actually read that,” she later said) and immediately cut the singer-songwriter off on the subject. Her life. “I deleted his number,” she wrote in her diary. “He made it easy for me to walk away. I did not accept his apology. I deleted all of his contact information from my phone. I was done with this man in a way I never thought was possible. When he reached out to me, I changed my number and changed my email. Wipe.” Boom – that's napalm in action!

What did they say about each other?

Fortunately, some of the couple's other comments about their relationship were more grandmother-friendly.

“He would walk into the room and pick up his guitar, and you would swoon,” Simpson said. the people In 2020, she recalled her first impressions of Mayer when they met. “I didn't really know the man behind the guitar. That was my job.”

In a February 2007 conversation with Time Out New YorkMayer said he doesn't care if people think they're an odd couple. “I'm having the time of my life,” he said. “So, if the names don't make sense to people, that's too small for me.”

What do they say now?

Since their relationship was so surprising, and ultimately controversial, this topic has come up several times in interviews over the years — as well as getting a full breakdown in Open book.

“He wanted it all or nothing,” Simpson wrote. “He told me over and over again that he was sexually and emotionally obsessed with me. I would get up to go to the bathroom, and John would ask me, ‘Where are you going?’” During my marriage, my ex-husband didn’t care to know what city I was in. I felt safe being wanted. I know That John would never betray me, and that trust was a new feeling for me.

Simpson said Mayer's intensely sexual comments about her felt like an unexpected betrayal from the man she thought she could count on to adore her. “He thought that was what I wanted to call him,” she wrote. “Women and how to be in bed is not something that is ever talked about. It was shocking. He was the most loyal person on the planet, and when I read that he wasn't, that was the case for me.”

Simpson said that while promoting the book and! news That Mayer had forgiven him… sort of. “I certainly don't feel like I deserve a public apology,” she said. “You can't take it back. And I'm a very forgiving person, but I'm also honest. So, in the memoir, if I'm going to talk about the things that caused me pain, I'll be honest about that. And that was a time in my life where I was manipulated a lot and I fell in love too, or seemingly.

The older, wiser Simpson now knows that her friends were never aware of the relationship. “He dumped me, then came back saying he discovered he loved me after all,” she wrote. “I always saw him mercilessly taking me out cold. Every time John came back, I thought it was the continuation of a love story, while my friends would see a guy coming back to have sex with a stupid girl.

Simpson also notes in the book that, during the relationship, she worried that Mayer was too smart for her — a sensibility due to her being caricatured at the time as a “dumb blonde,” which is, of course, how we've come to know her ever since. It couldn't be further from the truth.

“I was constantly worried that I wasn't smart enough for him,” she wrote. “He was very intelligent and treated the conversation like a friendly competition that he had to win.” She even said that she used to have friends review her letters to him, in case he caught any typos. “I was getting more anxious and poured another drink,” she said. “It was the beginning of my dependence on alcohol to mask my nerves.”

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since then Playboy In the interview, Mayer remained more quiet about his time with Simpson – but when Open book Published in 2020, Mayer's best friend Andy Cohen I brought up the subject with him. “I'd heard about it,” Mayer said of the memoir. “I've heard some bits. But as Pee Wee Herman says in Pee Wee's Big Adventure before the movie of his life finally begins, he's not watching the movie, and the reason he's not watching the movie is, 'I don't have to watch it, Dottie. I've lived it.' I think that's a no-brainer here.

But has Mayer officially apologized for the “sex napalm” comments that ruined Simpson? Well almost. On stage in Nashville in 2010He was filled with remorse, explaining: “In my quest to be smart, I completely forgot the people I loved and the people who loved me,” saying he was in a “wormhole of selfishness, greed and arrogance.”

Later, in 2012, in an interview on NPR All things considered” He gave a similar explanation. “I had nothing to say,” he said. “I went through a period of my life where I didn't really want to share what was going on, but I didn't want to be boring. When you are open, but not honest, you begin to freely associate with garbage. This doesn't mean I can go back and delete it, but I understand it now.

Fast food key relationship

This relationship was basically a time bomb. As Simpson herself said in her book: “He loved me the way he could, and I loved that love for a very long time. A very long time. And I went back and forth with it for a long time. But it controlled me.”

Some people even thought Simpson had changed her image to favor Mayer, dyeing her blonde hair brunette to please him – but she insisted this wasn't true. “It didn’t make me become a black woman,” she said. attractiveness After they split. “John doesn't get credit for making me a brunette. He'd like to think so, but he doesn't deserve the credit.

Since both stars appear to be single now, we doubt Simpson will be opening for Mayer's number anytime soon. Because after all, as she puts it, “that was Jess in her 20s.”

Now, as a 44-year-old mother of three, she knows better — and what about Mayer? He hadn't acted so rashly since then, so maybe they'd both learned something.