Jessica Simpson ‘didn’t think about alcohol’ during the COVID-19 pandemic, is focused on sobriety

Jessica Simpson shared an update on the state of her sobriety.

The 40-year-old singer gave up alcohol in November 2017 and explained that she ‘didn’t think about alcohol’ amid the ongoing coronavirus pandemic during a remote appearance on The Tamron Hall Show.

‘It’s weird because alcohol was an easy thing for me to give up. It was clinging to the way I romanticize the pain I like to handle, ‘she said in a preview of the interview, which will air on Friday.

The 50-year-old talk show host asked the stylist what it was like to ‘sober up’ during this ‘challenging year’.

Jessica hasn’t had a drink since she sobered up three years ago, and she didn’t allow the stress of 2020 to interfere with her journey.

The star revealed that she couldn’t do this without having her 41-year-old husband Eric Johnson by his side: ‘Eric and I both looked at each other, like, we couldn’t have drank for that.’

Simpson is currently promoting the paperback launch of his best-selling memoir of 2020, Open Book.

In the book, she described how she hit rock bottom after a Halloween party at the couple’s home in late 2017, when she said to friends, ‘I need to stop. Something needs to stop. And if it is alcohol that is doing this and making things worse, then I stop. ‘

Her ex-NFL player husband joined her to give up alcohol to act as a pillar of support as she entered a new chapter in her life.

‘Eric gave up drinking the second I drank. He said, “I will do this to you, dear.” It wasn’t a big deal and he didn’t come back or look back, ‘she told People in 2020.

– That’s how he is. He is a very selfless and loving person, the most incredible father on the planet. ‘

Loving parents share three sons: daughters Birdie Mae, 2, and Maxwell Drew, 8, as well as 7-year-old son Ace Knute.

Simpson said on Thursday that he is “very open” about the sexual abuse he suffered as a child with his children, after writing about it in his book.

During an apparition in Good morning america she said she decided to tell her daughter Maxwell about the abuse after being approached by a fan at an autograph event, who said she was inspired to seek therapy after reading about her experience.

Maxwell was with her at the time, and Jessica decided to interrupt the event to tell her what had happened.

‘She was like,’ Mom, what is she talking about? ‘And then I held the line for autographs and thought,’ I think this is the time when I’m going to tell my daughter about this here in Times Square, ‘said the author.

‘But it was a perfect moment because she saw how to be open and honest with her feelings and how you can inspire people that way … how honesty really is moving and how it can make a change in people’s lives and she saw that mom was doing it, ‘added Simpson. ‘She went home and started writing in the diary … she has been writing in her diary ever since.’

Inside the book, Jessica revealed that the daughter of a family friend sexually abused her when she was six years old.

The Public Affair singer has kept the abuse a secret for years, and hasn’t told her parents about it until six years after it started.

Simpson also admitted that his children read some of his memories: ‘They read some of them. There is nothing that is off limits. We are a very open family. For me, when I talk about sexual abuse and other things, these things happened to me when I was younger than them and at their age. So, it is something that we are very open about. ‘