In her upcoming memoir, 'Open Book,' the pop star-turned-fashion designer reveals that she was sexually abused as a child and later turned to"drinking and pills.", Jessica Simpson shares that she was sexually abused as a child and later turned to "drinking and pills" to help cope with her painful past.
Around the age of 12, though, Jessica Simpson finally said something during a family road trip. The star remembers her mother slapping her father's arm and saying, "I told you something was happening." However, Simpson, adds, "Dad kept his eye on the road and said nothing." with now ex-husband Nick Lachey — Simpson says that she quietly self-medicated to mask her trauma. "I was killing myself with all the drinking and pills," she writes inSimpson eventually became sober in November 2017. While she says giving up alcohol was "easy," committing to twice-a-week therapy sessions was at first a challenge but ultimately rewarding.
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