In the preview, Simpson reveals that as a young child, she was sexually abused by the daughter of a close family friend. Simpson recalls the abuse starting when she was six years old:"It would start with tickling my back and then go into things that were extremely uncomfortable."At 12, Simpson says she finally told her parents after grappling with internal conflict."I was the victim but somehow I felt in the wrong," she writes.
Jessica Simpson on Instagram: “Thank you @people for helping me share my story. There is so much beauty on the other side of fear and I hope my truth can help. I can’t…” Hiding her pain and trauma behind mounting career pressures, Simpson turned to alcohol and other drugs."I was killing myself with all the drinking and pills," she writes. Then in 2017, after hitting rock bottom at a Halloween party hosted in her home, she knew she had to stop."Giving up the alcohol was easy," Simpson recalls."I was mad at that bottle. At how it allowed me to stay complacent and numb.