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Jessica Simpson says she doesn’t want an Apology from Her Ex John Mayer

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Updated on July 6, 2023

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When it comes to her relationship with ex John Mayer, Jessica Simpson is leaving the past in the past.

Although it’s been years since their breakup, many fans have long wondered if Jessica Simpson wanted John Mayer to apologize for his inflammatory statements after their 2007 split.

Simpson has stated that she does not want a public apology from Mayer, who has been chastised for his alleged mistreatment of her and his other prominent ex-girlfriends.

The Open Book author admits in a sneak peek of her March 26 interview with Tamron Hall that include anecdotes about her troubled relationship with Mayer in her 2020 biography has nothing to do with demanding an apology.

“No, I definitely don’t feel that I am owed a public apology,” Simpson, 40, stated. “I mean, you can’t take it back. And I’m a very forgiving person, but I’m also honest. So, in the memoir, if I’m gonna talk about stuff that caused me pain, I’m going to be honest about it. And that was a time in my life that I was very manipulated and also in love, or seemingly.”

In her autobiography, ‘Open Book,’ the ‘With You’ singer opened up about her on-again, off-again relationship with the ‘Gravity’ hitmaker, claiming that her insecurity with him “was the start” of her alcohol addiction, accusing him of causing her break-up with Tony Romo, and admitting she was embarrassed when he described her as “sexual napalm” in a 2010 Playboy interview.

Following her divorce from Nick Lachey in 2006, Simpson and Mayer dated on and off. From August 2006 to May 2007, the author and the “Gravity” singer were together.

In her memoir, which was released in paperback on March 23, 2021, the actress spoke openly about the “Gravity” singer. Mayer “told me he was obsessed with me, sexually and emotionally,” she writes in one chapter. Mayer went on to share confidential details about their sex life in an interview with Playboy years after their breakup.

“The girl is like crack cocaine to me. Sexually it was crazy. That’s all I’ll say. It was like napalm, sexual napalm,” he told the magazine in 2010.

According to E! News, Simpson believed Mayer’s public description of her was “kind of disrespectful.”

“We were kind of like on/off, on/off at that time,” she said. “But to talk about anybody sexually is kind of disrespectful. But, I mean, that’s on him.”

The ‘Dukes of Hazzard’ actor is now happily married to Eric Johnson, with whom she has three children: eight-year-old Maxwell, seven-year-old Ace, and two-year-old Birdie, and she said that their connection is very different from what she had with John.

“Now that I have the love of Eric, it’s just such a different thing,” she explained.

She revealed in the book that she felt uneasy during their relationship to the point that she would have a friend proofread her text messages to the guitarist before sending them.

She added, “I was constantly worried that I wasn’t smart enough for him. He was so clever and treated conversation like a friendly competition that he had to win.”

As a result of her anxiousness, the Employee of the Month actor turned to drinking as a coping mechanism. She remembered, “I would pour another drink. It was the start of me relying on alcohol to mask my nerves.”

Simpson explains the pressure she felt to live up to Mayer’s standards.

“He would tell me that my true self is so much greater than the person I was settling on being,” she wrote. “Like there was some great woman inside me waiting to come out, and I had to hurry up and find her because he wanted to love that woman, not me.”

John previously revealed that he had “heard some bits” of ‘Open Book,’ but that he does not want to read the complete biography.

He said: “I’ve heard about it. I’ve heard some bits.

“As Pee-wee Herman says in ‘Pee-wee’s Big Adventure’ before the movie of his life is about to play out at the end, he’s not watching the movie, and the reason he’s not watching the movie, he says, ‘I don’t have to watch it, Dottie, I lived it.’ And I think that’s prescient here.”