Jessica Simpson is celebrating eight years of sobriety as she deals with the end of her 11-year marriage to Eric Johnson.
On Saturday, November 1, the 45-year-old singer and fashion mogul took to Instagram to reflect on her journey to sobriety. She posted a beaming selfie alongside a powerful message about the transformation that came with quitting alcohol.
“Eight years ago today, I made the choice to confront, confess and let go of the self-sabotaging parts of my life that I chose to confront,” she wrote. “Making that decision allowed me to live fully in pursuing God’s purpose for my life. Alcohol silenced my intuition, blocked my dreams, and chased away my circulating fear of complacency.”
Simpson said she now lives guided by faith, writing, “Today I am clear. Today I am driven by faith…I am so glad I chose faith over fear. It was not in the struggle that I found my strength, it was in the surrender.”
Her down-to-earthness, she shares, has also given her creativity a new shape. “Every time I wrote, I was a little scared for myself… especially because I was drinking at the time,” Simpson said The cut in February – less than a month after filing the divorce. “But once I gave up alcohol, the fears just diminished. They disappeared.”
Is Jessica Simpson divorced?
Earlier this year, Simpson filed for divorce from Eric Johnson after eleven years of marriage. The couple married in July 2014 and welcomed three children together: daughters Maxwell (12), Birdie (5) and son Ace (11).
Announcing their split in a statement on January 13 American weeklySimpson revealed, “Eric and I have been living apart and going through a painful situation in our marriage.”
Since her divorce, Simpson returned to music for the first time in 15 years, performing live for the first time in 15 years at SXSW’s Recording Academy Austin Chapter Block Party.
“It was emotional coming home to the best part of me,” she wrote in an Instagram post the next day.
She also debuted two new songs, Bread-crumbs And To leaveand two new EPS.
