Jessica Simpson Just Made The Most Devastating Announcement Ever–SO Sad!
May 5, 2021 by Hannah Kerns
After releasing her memoir Open Book in 2020, Jessica Simpson had a frightening thought: that publishing her book meant she was “going to die.” In Take the Lead, an essay for Amazon Original Stories, Simpson admitted this worry, explaining that it was the one remaining, secret fear she had left out of the memoir.
“I declared that there were no more secrets. But there is one more secret I haven’t shared: I thought that publishing a memoir meant that I was going to die,” she wrote.
This fear stemmed from the tragic death of Simpson’s cousin, Sarah, when they were only teenagers. After Sarah’s death, her detailed journal entries offered the family comfort – and Simpson could not help but see a connection between these journals and her own memoir.
“Sarah had recorded her life so beautifully in her journals, and her mother sharing them with her church community had made such an impact, that for decades I thought that was why God had called her home,” Simpson explained. “She had fulfilled her purpose – written the summation.”