Jessica Simpson Celebrates 8 Years of Sobriety Amid Divorce: ‘I Silenced My Intuition’
Jessica Simpson is celebrating eight years of sobriety as she navigates the end of her 11-year marriage to Eric Johnson.
On Saturday, November 1, the singer and fashion mogul, 45, took to Instagram to reflect on her sobriety journey. She posted a vibrant selfie alongside a powerful message about the transformation that comes from giving up alcohol.
“8 years ago today, I made the choice to confront, confess and let go of the self-sabotaging aspects of my life that I chose,” she wrote. “Making this decision allowed me to live fully in pursuit of God’s purpose for my life. Alcohol silenced my intuition, blocked my dreams, and chased away my fears of complacency.”
Simpson said she now lives guided by faith, writing: “Today I am clear. Today I am motivated by faith…I am so glad I chose faith over fear. It wasn’t in fighting that I found my strength, it was in surrender.”
Her sobriety, she shared, has also reshaped her creativity. “Every time I wrote, I was a little afraid of myself…especially because I was drinking at the time,” Simpson said. The cut in February – less than a month after filing for divorce. “But once I stopped drinking, the fears just diminished. They disappeared.”
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Earlier this year, Simpson filed for divorce from Eric Johnson after 11 years of marriage. The couple married in July 2014 and welcomed three children together: daughters Maxwell (12), Birdie (5) and son Ace (11).
Announcing their separation in a January 13 statement to American weeklySimpson revealed: “Eric and I are living separately, going through a painful situation in our marriage.”
Since her divorce, Simpson has returned to music for the first time in 15 years, performing live for the first time in 15 years at the Recording Academy Austin Chapter Block Party at SXSW.
“It was emotional to come home to the best part of myself,” she wrote in an Instagram post the next day.
She also debuted two new songs, Breadcrumbs And Leaveand two new EPS.
