Simpson includes a handwritten “divorce diary” about her separation from her ex-husband Nick Lachey, saying she was “afraid to be alone”. Simpson and Lachey separated in 2005, after seven years together.
“I didn’t want to get married anymore, but I was also afraid to be alone with ‘no one to call mine but the night,'” said Simpson. “The house is quiet. Everything is quiet. I sit in solitude. To cry. To feel alone …”
She reveals that she was hurt that Lachey moved so fast.
“So Nick, are you with another one yet?” she wrote. “It looks like you forgot the love you spoke to me … It’s just because I’m alone in the dark [with] no one to call mine, but the night.
“Oh, night, love me tenderly, love me in silence, find me happy, find me well. Oh sir, let your star shine on me tonight.”
Simpson is now married to Eric Johnson, and the two share three children, Birdie Mae, 2, Maxwell Drew, 8, and Ace Knute, 7.
In a new introduction to the book, Simpson said she was thrilled with the feedback from readers, writing, “I didn’t know it was the beginning of the conversation.”