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When Jessica Simpson and Eric Johnson announced the end of their marriage, followers had been baffled.
The couple had been collectively for over a decade, and so they appeared to have all of it.
Many puzzled what might have presumably led Jessica to tug the plug on what gave the impression to be a blissful marriage.
And now, it appears we’ve got our reply …
Did Jessica simply drop a reality bomb in her new tune?
Firstly of this yr, we realized that Jessica was planning a musical comeback. And this week, she adopted by on that promise with the discharge of “Depart,” her first single since 2008.
Followers had been thrilled to see Jessica get again to what made her well-known. However many had been additionally deeply upset by the tune’s lyrics, wherein Simpson appears to accuse an ex of dishonest.
“What we had was magic / Now you made it tragic / Giving her what you gave to me / Now the properly that you just drank from’s empty,” she sings at one level.
“Did you do to her what you probably did to me? / Was she on her knees? / Oh, she’s all the things however me,” Jessica continued.
Jessica by no means mentions Eric by title, however at one level she alludes to an “unholy matrimony” and means that the alleged affair went on for a while.
“Oh, I, I’d quite die / Then allow you to be inside me along with her in your thoughts,” she sings.
The lyrics didn’t come as a shock to followers who suspected Eric of dishonest ever since he and Jessica introduced their break up.
Jessica and Eric referenced a ‘painful scenario’ of their announcement
“Eric and I’ve been residing individually navigating a painful scenario in our marriage,” she mentioned in a press release on the time.
Simpson stored the announcement civil, noting that her three kids “come first,” and that she and Eric are “specializing in what’s greatest for them.”
“We’re grateful for all the love and assist that has been coming our manner, and recognize privateness proper now as we work by this as a household,” Jessica continued.
The pop icon nonetheless hasn’t made any express dishonest allegations, however many consider that the “painful scenario” was the infidelity that she appeared to trace at in her tune.
Jessica’s latest rebrand will reportedly embody a actuality present and presumably even a memoir. So it’s attainable that we’ll get the total story of her divorce in some unspecified time in the future within the close to future.
Within the meantime, followers will little question proceed to select aside her lyrics in the hunt for clues about her breakup — a scenario that calls to thoughts one other blonde singer-songwriter with ties to Nashville.
