Jessica Simpson Gets Candid About What Happened When She Quit Drinking

Jessica Simpson is celebrating year seven of sobriety, and opening up about all the changes that have come with it.

“I think once I stopped drinking alcohol, I just had the courage to be myself,” she told the Wall Street Journal’s “My Monday Morning” column this week.

“Once I gave it up, I went quickly into healing and I think I said after the first week of therapy, ‘OK, I’m ready to start my book now,’” she said of her bestselling memoir, called “Open Book.”

“I just fell in love with parts of myself I never knew I would,” Simpson added. “I gained a lot of confidence being honest with myself, and there was nothing I wanted to not share.”

The former “Newlyweds” star recently shared that her sobriety also affected the way she wrote music.

“Once I gave up the alcohol, the fears just diminished. They went away,” she told The Cut last month.

“And it was so much easier for me to access myself artistically. I’d thought the more I drank, the more cool I could be and find cool words that would rhyme, that wouldn’t be so expected,” she explained. “I overthought it when I drank.”

Simpson often marks her sober anniversaries with emotional posts on Instagram.

When she celebrated five years without alcohol in 2022, the singer shared her powerful message to herself on social media.

“The most important thing I have learned through the last 5yrs without alcohol being a guard for escapism, is that I CAN and ALWAYS WILL get through it,” she wrote at the time. “I am capable of pretty much anything I care enough about to put my mind to. I am present. I am deeply inspired. I am determined.”