Jessica Simpson hit ‘rock bottom’ boozing at 7:30am and being too drunk to dress her kids for Halloween
JESSICA Simpson has said she hit 'rock bottom' when she found herself drinking at 7:30 in the morning and realised she was too drunk to dress her kids for Halloween.
The singer, 39, recalled the moment in 2017 she knew she had to get sober in her new memoir, Open Book.
In a heartwrenching excerpt obtained by People, Jessica explained that she and husband Eric Johnson were on their way to their daughter Maxwell's school assembly.
The former MTV star, who was in the passenger seat, confessed: "It was 7:30 in the morning and I'd already had a drink."
Later that day, Jessica admitted she "zoned out" while her team dressed her up as Willie Nelson for a Halloween party they were hosting.
But when her husband asked her to help get their children ready, Simpson revealed she "was terrified of letting" Maxwell and Ace see her.
She penned: "I was terrified of letting them see me in that shape. I am ashamed to say that I don’t know who got them into their costumes that night."
To cope with the shame, Jessica admitted she took ambient before bed and when it came to getting up the following morning, she froze.
"I slept in, afraid to see them, afraid I had failed them," Jessica wrote. "I hid until they left, then drank."
This is the latest revalation to come out of her upcoming memoir, Open Book, after Jessica revealed that she had been sexually abused as a child.
The designer talked about how at six-years-old, she was abused by a family friend "when [she] shared a bed with [their] daughter."
She said the trauma that changed her life forever led her to bury her pain with alcohol and pills.
The With You singer opened up about how a visit to her doctor made her realize that her dependency could kill her.
As to why she didn't tell her parents, Jessica wrote: "I wanted to tell my parents. I was the victim but somehow I felt in the wrong.”
It took her six years to reveal what had happened at the family friend's house.
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Jessica told her parents during a car trip and her mom, Tina, immediately told her dad, Joe Simpson, that she had known something was off with their daughter.
The singer also talked about how even though her fans saw a young singer who was in love with her then-husband, Nick Lachey, she was hiding so much underneath.
In 2010, she married current husband Eric Johnson and they have children together: seven-year-old Maxwell, six-year-old Ace and 10-month-old Birdie.
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