Ashlee Simpson is reflecting on her rebellious past.
The “Piece of Me” singer spoke about growing up as an “independent soul” who wanted freedom from her parents from an early age on the podcast “Rachel Bilson and Olivia Allen’s Wide Ideas.” Told.
“I ended up being much more rebellious than I was, because I was like, ‘Oh, I’m not doing that,'” she said. “I thought my father would say, ‘Oh, I can’t talk to this person. This is the ring that will save me.'” He tried to give it to me, who was 12 years old, and I “Oh, no, thank you. I don’t say anything when we have sex.’ ”
She went on to reveal that despite refusing a purity ring, she “didn’t have sex up until then.” [she] I was 17 years old. ”She just didn’t want people to know what she was doing and when.
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When Ashlee Simpson was 12 years old, when her father suggested she wear a purity ring, she said, “No, thank you.” (Photo by John Kopaloff/FilmMagic)
In the early 2000s, many celebrities wore purity rings, including Demi Lovato, Selena Gomez, the Jonas Brothers, and Ashley’s sister, singer Jessica Simpson.
She pointed out the differences in how her mother raised her and Jessica. “My mom really paid attention and made time to come and see me if I needed something different. And now that we’re all parents, , I was finally able to understand the other side’s position,” Simpson said. “Growing up, I was a really independent soul and wanted to do what I wanted. They had to set me free and let me have that moment. I had to at least make it feel free, and sometimes too free.”
Ashlee Simpson (right) said her mother raised her and her sister Jessica Simpson differently, providing for each other’s needs. (Jessica Simpson Collection Photo Credit: Jamie McCarthy/Getty Images)
Later in the podcast, Simpson talked about her infamous performance in which she was seen lip-syncing on a 2004 episode of “Saturday Night Live.”
Simpson had already performed her hit song “Piece of Me,” and when she returned to the stage to sing “Autobiography,” the wrong song started playing over the speakers, making it clear that she wasn’t singing it live. The audience was shocked. A nervous Ashley danced for a few seconds and left the stage.
Ashlee Simpson was famously spotted lip-syncing during a performance on “Saturday Night Live” in 2004. (Photo by Dana Edelson/NBCU Photo Bank)
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“I’ve written all these songs and done all this work and you’re so close to taking all the credit and you’re like, ‘No,'” she said on the podcast. Ta. “It taught me humility and taught me a lot about myself and my own personal strengths… [and] How to get back up and move on again. ”
At the time, Simpson said she was forced to lip-sync after losing her voice due to a flare-up of acid reflux disease. A year later, she returned to the “SNL” stage to perform songs from her second album, “I Am Me.” “It was very scary,” she admitted.
Additionally, she added that it was difficult to “find the strength at such a young age” to get back on stage and say to herself, “I’m good at this. I keep going. I keep fighting.” .
“For me, it was like I sulked for a week until I had to be like, ‘Okay, I need to go on all the steroids and get my voice and get back on stage and figure this out.’ ‘And I feel like I owe it to the fans and myself, and that’s what I did,” she said. “What was harder for me was everyone bringing it up and I just let it go.”
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Ashlee Simpson went on to marry Evan Ross and have two children with him, as well as a son with ex-husband Pete Wentz. (Photo by Gerrit Clark/Getty Images for W Magazine)
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She released another album ‘Bittersweet World’ in 2011. Simpson currently has three children. The Bronx, which she shares with ex Pete Wentz, and Ziggy and Jagger, which she shares with her husband Evan Ross.
