In the Friday episode of Tamron Room, Jessica Simpson discussed an unintended advantage of discussing her sexuality in public, as disrespectful as she found it: a “long line” of curious suitors. In a 2010 interviewMayer described Simpson, whom he had met for almost a year, as “sexual napalm.” Simpson wrote in his memoirs, Open book, that she considered the way he discussed it “in the most degrading terms” and had to answer questions about the terms mentioned in interviews for years.
“Talking about anyone sexually is disrespectful, but that’s for him,” she told Hall.
However, she added with a laugh: “What she did was she definitely gave me a long line of boys. A lot of people were knocking on my door … I think he thought I wanted that, but I’d rather have someone come after me for my heart or see something more in me than the world. ”
Hall asked Simpson about Mayer’s recent Claim that he “almost cried five times” as he watched Framing Britney Spears. After the FX / Hulu document was released, Justin Timberlake issued a half audience sorry Spears (as well as Janet Jackson). Hall wondered if Simpson thought Mayer should follow Timberlake’s example and apologize for Simpson’s treatment. In the Open book, Simpson describes their relationship as “unhealthy” and Mayer as “manipulative.”
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“No, I certainly don’t feel that I owe a public apology,” Simpson said. “You can’t take her back.”
“I wouldn’t expect an apology, I don’t think an apology is needed, because I feel like people are finding their way to let you know they’re sorry,” Simpson said. “And I don’t think he might be sorry and he’s fine.”
From his speculations that Mayer might not be sorry, we can deduce that he did not contact Simpson after she wrote about their relationship in such detail in her book. A particularly insightful sample:
I was a pet bird. He threw me into the sky and watched me catch my breath and lift myself high enough to mean something when he took a gun out of his back pocket to bring me down, with the expert purpose of stepping on a wing, never a kill shot to put end of misery. To believe that every time I lay on the ground, broken and puzzled, he took his time walking over. Watching me write notes and hum a new heart song.
And every time he “found” me, I looked up at him, grateful that I had been received, sorry for the trouble he must have caused.
I wish you had come out right then. I didn’t do it. It confused me so much that, in twenty minutes, we were all in his “wait and see” terms. It felt inevitable to be in love with John, so I kept talking to him for months. I told my friends that “I’m back with him” and they stocked up on emotional bandages. But I knew now that I wouldn’t let him get close enough to bring me down again. This bird did not return to the cage, no matter how badly it needed a song.
It is a great book. Simpson’s current press cycle is related to his recent paperback version.