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Jessica Simpson suggests she will “never get” an apology in an empowering new song released after her recent split from husband Eric Johnson.
The track “Your Apology” — which Simpson, 45, cowrote with Maggie Koerner and Teresa LaBarbera — is featured on her latest EP, Nashville Canyon, Pt. 2 and reflects on Simpson’s personal turmoil with wrenching sincerity.
“I accept your apology / I will never get / Comfortably numb,” she sings. “Baptize what I cannot forget.”
Simpson laments that “love is a poor man’s game” and suggests that her partner has “become what you hate the most” because they are “covered in thorns.”
While the song doesn’t go into detail about any specific betrayal or person, Simpson poignantly acknowledges that she won’t be “healed in a quick fix or some company.”
Simpson previously reflected on her heartbreak on the track “Fade,” released in July. In that song, the former Newlyweds star admitted that she didn’t “feel loved” because her partner’s “words became too much.”
The release of “Your Apology” on Friday, September 5, came one week after Simpson and Johnson were spotted together while boarding a Southwest Airlines flight from Burbank to Las Vegas on August 29. Their surprising reunion occurred seven months after they announced their separation in January.
A source exclusively revealed to Us Weekly that Simpson and Johnson are not “getting back together or reconciling.” Instead, Johnson, 45, was simply being supportive of his estranged wife as she attended her sister Ashlee Simpson’s concert residency at Voltaire at The Venetian Resort.
“It was a family event, and Eric was being supportive,” the insider said. “He wanted to support Ashlee.”
Jessica told Us Weekly in January that she was separating from Johnson after 10 years of marriage. The former couple share three children: Maxwell “Maxi” Drew, 13, Ace Knute, 12, and Birdie Mae, 6. (Simpson was previously married to Nick Lachey from 2002 to 2006.)
“Eric and I have been living separately navigating a painful situation in our marriage,” Jessica told Us in a statement at the time. “Our children come first, and we are focusing on what is best for them. We are grateful for all of the love and support that has been coming our way, and appreciate privacy right now as we work through this as a family.”
Two months later, Jessica confessed to fans at a Texas concert that she’d gone through major upheaval while writing her EP Nashville Canyon, Pt. 1.
“I was out in Nashville and I had my heart wide open, I was in a very intuitive state and I had to ask some very personal questions on the home front,” she recalled. “I found out that my world had been turned upside down and that life was very different … I am now a very single lady.”
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She went on, “When we open our hearts, sometimes we’re vulnerable and it just gets broken. Maybe sometimes we forget that we’ve been broken for a really long time, but when we meet ourselves, when we write, when we sing [and] when we connect with ourselves, we find all the answers.”
More recently, a source confirmed to Us in August that Jessica felt “a new sense of confidence and [was] coming back into her own” while prepping the release of Nashville Canyon, Pt. 2.
“She’s doing well since the split,” the insider insisted. “She’s a different person since she’s been out of the relationship.”
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