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When Jessica Simpson and Eric Johnson introduced the tip of their marriage, followers have been baffled.
The couple had been collectively for over a decade, and so they appeared to have all of it.
Many questioned what might have probably led Jessica to tug the plug on what seemed to be a blissful marriage.
And now, it appears we have now our reply …
Jessica Simpson and Eric Johnson arrive on the White Home Correspondents’ Affiliation (WHCA) annual dinner in Washington on Might 3, 2014. (NICHOLAS KAMM/AFP by way of Getty Photographs)
Did Jessica simply drop a fact bomb in her new music?
At first of this yr, we realized that Jessica was planning a musical comeback. And this week, she adopted by way of on that promise with the discharge of “Leave,” her first single since 2008.
Followers have been thrilled to see Jessica get again to what made her well-known. However many have been additionally deeply upset by the music’s lyrics, during which Simpson appears to accuse an ex of dishonest.
“What we had was magic / Now you made it tragic / Giving her what you gave to me / Now the well that you drank from’s empty,” she sings at one level.
“Did you do to her what you did to me? / Was she on her knees? / Oh, she’s everything but me,” Jessica continued.
Eric Johnson and singer/songwriter Jessica Simpson attend the premiere of Lionsgate’s “The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1” at Nokia Theatre L.A. Reside on November 17, 2014 in Los Angeles, California. (Photograph by Kevin Winter/Getty Photographs)
Jessica by no means mentions Eric by title, however at one level she alludes to an “unholy matrimony” and means that the alleged affair went on for a while.
“Oh, I, I’d rather die / Then let you be inside me with her on your mind,” she sings.
The lyrics didn’t come as a shock to followers who suspected Eric of dishonest ever since he and Jessica introduced their cut up.
Jessica and Eric referenced a ‘painful situation’ of their announcement
“Eric and I have been living separately navigating a painful situation in our marriage,” she stated in an announcement on the time.
Jessica Simpson and Eric Johnson attend the a centesimal Annual White Home Correspondents’ Affiliation Dinner on the Washington Hilton on Might 3, 2014 in Washington, DC. (Photograph by Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Photographs)
Simpson saved the announcement civil, noting that her three kids “come first,” and that she and Eric are “focusing on what is best for them.”
“We are grateful for all of the love and support that has been coming our way, and appreciate privacy right now as we work through this as a family,” Jessica continued.
The pop icon nonetheless hasn’t made any specific dishonest allegations, however many consider that the “painful situation” was the infidelity that she appeared to trace at in her music.
Jessica’s newest rebrand will reportedly embody a actuality present and probably even a memoir. So it’s potential that we’ll get the total story of her divorce sooner or later within the close to future.
Within the meantime, followers will little doubt proceed to choose aside her lyrics looking for clues about her breakup — a scenario that calls to thoughts one other blonde singer-songwriter with ties to Nashville.
