The 2 singers dated on and off for nearly a yr since summer time of 2006, a number of months following her break up from husband Nick Lachey. Simpson opened up about her relationship with Mayer in her 2020 memoir, Open Guide. She mentioned he repeatedly instructed her “he was obsessive about me, sexually and emotionally.”
Mayer had instructed Playboy in 2010 that Simpson was like “crack cocaine” to him, including, “Sexually it was loopy. That is all I will say. It was like napalm, sexual napalm.”
This didn’t sit effectively along with his ex. “He thought that was what I needed to be referred to as,” Simpson wrote in her memoir. “I used to be floored and embarrassed that my grandmother was really gonna learn that.”
Two years later, Mayer expressed remorse about his feedback, telling NPR, “I had nothing to say. I used to be going by means of a time in my life the place I did not actually wish to share what was happening, however I did not wish to be boring.”
Simpson additionally wrote in her ebook that she was continually frightened she “wasn’t sensible sufficient” for Mayer, including, “My anxiousness would spike and I might pour one other drink. It was the beginning of me counting on alcohol to masks my nerves.”
On April 1, 2020, Mayer mentioned on Watch What Occurs Dwell With Andy Cohen that he had “heard some bits” about Simpson’s memoir, including, “However as Pee Wee Herman says in Pee Wee’s Massive Journey earlier than the film of his life is about to play out on the finish, he is not watching the film, and the rationale he is not watching the film, he says, ‘I haven’t got to observe it, Dottie, I lived it.’ And I feel that is prescient right here.”
