Jessica Simpson, John Mayer Break Up 9 Times: Wild Romance

When Jessica Simpson married Eric Johnson In July 2014, it was for storage – but, with the couple announces their separation Almost ten years later, on Monday, January 13, we remember the last time the singer endured a public breakup. This would be his on-off relationship John Mayer It ended in 2010, just months before I met Johnson. Here's a look at what happened during the unlikely reunion, including nine breakups in four years.

How It Began

Simpson, now 44, has helpfully told this tale and many others! — in a very revealing biography of 2020, Open book. It was 2005 when she first met Mayer, now 47, and he was still married Nick Lachey. Two musicians who are stylistically very different were introduced Clive DavisThe night before the Grammys, when Mayer graced Simpson with her hit ballad “With You.” They corresponded occasionally and started seeing each other secretly when Simpson divorced Lachey in 2006 after four years of marriage.

In early 2007, they were seen together regularly, but only when Mayer was interviewed. Ryan Seacrest At the Grammys that year, he seemed to confirm their relationship … except, keeping to his quirky style, he did so in Japanese, which roughly translates to “She's a lovely woman and I'm glad to be with her.” Oh-kaaaay.

How long did it last?

The couple's first split was widely reported in May 2007, but they soon got back together. In fact, Simpson recalled while promoting her book, they actually broke up eight more times before finally calling it quits in 2010. “We've been great up close,” he said. Today interview. “We were great at loving each other. It was easy, but relationships were very complicated. Always turned off again, again, again. And I went back nine times!”

How it ended

Well, you already know this part. In a 2010 interview Playboy Quickly gaining infamy, Mayer revealed a bit more about her intoxicating affair with Simpson, ruining their chances of reuniting for the umpteenth time – thank goodness!

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“That girl is dope to me,” he said. “And if you use drugs too much, it's not good for you. Yeah, that girl is like cocaine to me. He was sexually insane. That's all I'll say. Napalma was like sexual napala. Have you ever said, 'I want out of my life and I just want to snort you?' If you asked me to give you $10,000, I would start selling all my money to support you.”

Clearly, the professionally squeaky-clean Simpson wasn't happy about being described in such foul language (she later said, “I'm embarrassed and ashamed that my grandma would actually read this”), and she promptly cut the singer-songwriter off. his life. “I deleted his number,” he recalled. “He made it easy for me to leave. I did not accept his apology. I deleted all his contact information from my phone. I'm done with this man in a way I never thought was possible. When you contacted me, I changed my number and changed my email. Delete.” Boom – there's that napalm!

What They Said About Each Other

Thankfully, some of the couple's other comments about their relationship were a little more grandma-friendly.

“He would walk into the room and grab his guitar and you'd pass out,” Simpson said. People Recalling her first impressions of Mayer when they met in 2020. “I didn't know the man behind the guitar. And this was my mission.”

And in a conversation in February 2007 New York Time OutMayer said he doesn't care if people think they're an odd couple. “I'm having the time of my life,” he said. “So if the names don't mean something to people, it's too small for me.”

What Are They Saying Now?

Because their relationship was so surprising and ultimately controversial, it's a topic that's come up time and time again in interviews over the years—while getting a full breakdown. Open book.

“He wanted to have all of me or nothing,” Simpson wrote. “He told me over and over again that he was sexually and emotionally attached to me. I'd get up to go to the bathroom and John would ask, 'Where are you going?' As long as I was married, my ex-husband couldn't be bothered to find out what city I was in. It was safe to be desired. I know that John will never deceive me, and this certainty was a new feeling for me.

Simpson said Mayer's intensely sexual comments about her felt like an unexpected betrayal from someone she thought she could depend on to adore. “He thought I wanted to be called that,” he said. “Women and how they are in bed is never something to talk about. It was a shock. He was the most loyal person on the planet, and when I read that he was gone, that was it for me.”

Simpson said while promoting the book AND! News that Mayer is forgiven… sort of. “I definitely don't feel like I have to make a public apology,” he said. “You can't take it back. I am a very forgiving person, but at the same time I am honest. So if I'm going to talk about the things that hurt me in the memoir, I'm going to be honest about it. And it was a time in my life where I was very manipulative and very loving or seemingly loving.

The older and wiser Simpson also knows his friends are never in a relationship. “He would leave me and then tell me he discovered he loved me,” she wrote. “I have always seen him coldly accepting me mercilessly. Every time John came back, I thought it was a continuation of a love story, and my friends saw a guy having sex with some stupid girl.”

Simpson also noted in the book that during the relationship, she worried that Mayer was too smart for her — a source of sensitivity since she was caricatured as a “dumb blonde” at the time, which, of course, we later learned. couldn't be further from the truth.

“I was constantly worried that I wasn't smart enough for him,” she said. “He was so clever and saw the conversation as a friendly competition that he had to win.” She said she even called her friends to read the messages she sent her in case she judged any typos. “I would get anxious and pour another drink,” she said. “It was the beginning of my reliance on alcohol to mask my nerves.”

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Since then Playboy The interviewer wisely kept a little quiet about his time with Mayer Simpson — but when Open book A close friend of Mayer's was published in 2020 Andy Cohen discussed the matter with him. “I've heard about it,” said Mayer of the Memoir. “I have heard some things. But as Pee Wee Herman says in Pee Wee's Big Adventure before the movie of his life ends, he doesn't watch the movie, and the reason he doesn't is because, “I don't have any.” to look at it, Dottie, I've had it. And I think that's the foresight here.”

But has Mayer ever formally apologized for the “sexual napalm” comments that destroyed The Simpsons? Well, almost. On stage in Nashville in 2010he was filled with regret, explaining that “In my quest to be smart, I completely forgot the people I loved and those who loved me,” and that he was “in a wormhole of selfishness, greed, and arrogance.”

Later, in a 2012 interview with NPR All Things Consideredhe gave a similar explanation. “I had nothing to say,” he said. “I went through a period in my life where I didn't want to share what was going on, but I also didn't want to be boring. When you're just open, but not honest, you start to freely combine garbage. “It doesn't mean I can go back and clean it up, but now I understand.”

Extracts of Basic Relationships

This relationship was basically a ticking time bomb. As Simpson himself says in his book, “He loved me as much as he could, and I loved that love for a very long time. Too long. And I went back and forth with him for a long time. But he controlled me.”

Some even believed that Simpson changed her image for Mayer, dyeing her trademark blond hair brunette to please her, but she claims that's not true. “He didn't force me to be a brunette,” she said Attractive after leaving. “John doesn't get credit for turning me into a brunette. He would like to think so, but he does not deserve this praise.

With both stars now seemingly single, we doubt Simpson will unblock Mayer's number anytime soon. Because after all, as she says, “This was 20-year-old Jess.”

Now, as a 44-year-old mother of three, she knows better — and for Mayer? He hasn't been so reckless since then, so maybe they've both learned something.