Amid her ongoing divorce from estranged husband, Eric Johnson, Jessica Simpson is celebrating eight years on continuous sobriety.
Taking to her Instagram account, the superstar singer/fashionsta wrote:
“8 years ago today I made the choice to confront, to confess and to let go of the self-sabotaging parts of my life that I was choosing.” “Making that decision allowed me to fully live in the pursuit of God’s purpose for my life. Alcohol silenced my intuition, blocked my dreams and chased my circulating fears of complacency.” “Today I am clear. Today I am driven by faith. Both fear and faith are something that we feel and may not see, I’m so happy I chose faith over fear. It was not in the fight that I found my strength, it was in the surrender.”
Candid about her prior battle with substance abuse and her sobriety journey, during a January 2020 interview on Today, the now 45-year old mother of three, addressed her reliance on alcohol to help her cope with past traumas, adding:
“I honestly couldn’t even tell you who got them ready,” Simpson said referring to her children at Halloween in 2017. “I was dazed and confused, and I just wanted to go to sleep.” “I didn’t take them trick-or-treating.” “I didn’t show up for my family. I took the picture and I made the world think that I had showed up.”
After a decade of marriage, Jessica Simpson and Eric Johnson announced their split in January 2025.
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Author: Saul Goode
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