Ashlee Simpson is reflecting on her rebellious previous.
The “Pieces of Me” singer mentioned rising up as an “independent soul” who needed freedom from her mother and father, even at a younger age, whereas on the “Broad Ideas with Rachel Bilson & Olivia Allen” podcast.
“I would come off way more rebellious than I even was, because I was like, ‘Oh no, I’m not doing that,’” she mentioned. “I would see how my dad would be like, ‘Oh, you can’t talk to this guy. Here’s your ring to save yourself.’ He tried to give me one at 12, and I was like, ‘Oh, no, thank you. I won’t be telling you when I have sex.’”
She went on to make clear that, though she rejected the purity ring, she didn’t have intercourse “until [she] was 17.” She simply didn’t need individuals to know what she was as much as and when.
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Many celebrities wore purity rings within the early 2000s, together with Demi Lovato, Selena Gomez, the Jonas Brothers and Ashlee’s older sister, singer Jessica Simpson, who Simpson admits could be very totally different from her.
She famous that her mother parented her and Jessica in a different way. “My mom really would pay attention and see me if I needed something different, and she would make that time. And now that we’re all parents, we finally get the other side,” Simpson mentioned. “Growing up, I was really an independent soul and I wanted to like, do my own effing thing. They had to let me kind of be free and have that moment, or at least feel free. And sometimes too free.”
Later within the podcast, Simpson mentioned her notorious efficiency on a 2004 episode of “Saturday Night Live,” the place she was caught lip-syncing.
Simpson had already carried out her hit tune, “Pieces of Me,” and when she returned to the stage to sing “Autobiography,” audiences have been left shocked when the flawed tune started taking part in from the audio system, revealing she was not singing stay. A nervous Ashlee danced for a number of seconds, earlier than strolling off the stage.
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“I wrote all these songs and I did all this and almost to have your credit completely taken from you, and you’re like, ‘No,’” she mentioned on the podcast. “It taught me humility, it taught me so much about myself and my own personal strength… [and] how to get back up and go again.”
On the time, Simpson mentioned she was forced to lip-sync as a result of she had misplaced her voice after an acid reflux disorder flare-up. She returned to the “SNL” stage a 12 months later, to carry out songs off her second album, “I Am Me.” “That was f—ing scary to do,” she admitted.
She added that it was arduous to “find – at such a young age – the strength” to get again on the stage and persuade herself, “I’m good at this. I will keep going. I will keep fighting.”
“For me it was like a week of sulking ‘til I had to be like, ‘OK, I need to get all these steroids and be able to have my voice and get back on stage and figure this out.’ And I feel like I owed that to my fans and myself and that’s what I did,” she mentioned. “The harder part of it for me was everyone bringing it up. I had let it go.”
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She launched one other album, “Bittersweet World,” in 2011. Simpson now has three youngsters; Bronx, who she shares with ex Pete Wentz, and Ziggy and Jagger, who she shares together with her husband, Evan Ross.