The Truth Behind Jessica Simpson And Nick Lachey's Divorce

It's hard not to miss the simpler days of reality TV, when Newlyweds showed the lives of two young pop stars who were madly in love and occasionally seemed a little clueless about the real world. "Is this chicken I have? Or is it this fish? I know it's tuna, but it says 'chicken.'" *burps* Funny times. Jessica Simpson and Nick Lachey

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d more than a decade ago and have since started families of their own, but looking back on all the good and silly moments from their honeymoon docuseries, we have to wonder: What was really behind their split? ? *burp* True, but other than that.

These are some of the reasons why the lovebirds' perfectly imperfect relationship fell apart. The Dukes of Betrayal It is rumored that Simpson may not have been loyal during the couple's four years of marriage. Jackass star Bam Margera reportedly told Howard Stern that he and Simpson had sex while filming Dukes of Hazzard in 2005. He told Stern that he "ended up at his parents' house drinking margaritas and it all went on from there" and that he left Simpson's house at eight the next morning. Simpson denied that the two were ever connected, and Margera later apologized to her for her comment.

But then Steve-O apparently corroborated the story. And the fact that she and Lachey broke up so soon after the alleged encounter certainly got people talking. Of course, it's not like Jessica didn't constantly expose her own jealousy on the show... "He didn't even say 'I'm leaving, come down with me,' no, she's got two Pussycat Dolls on his arm." Lachey himself later admitted that he wasn't sure if his ex-wife ever cheated on him, but that his uncertainty about that fact wasn't the only reason they broke up. Still, it's clear that trust wasn't always a rare commodity between these two.

The daddy Another factor that may have driven Nick and Jessica apart was the fact that Jessica's father-manager, Joe Simpson, reportedly never warmed to her blue-eyed beau during the course of their marriage. she. Lachey himself indicated as much in a 2006 interview with Rolling Stone in which he stated: "I don't pretend to understand Joe. I don't know if he ever liked me. To this day I can't say. It was painful." Do I think Joe caused a rift between us? No. Was he an influence on our marriage? So while Joe may not have ended the marriage on his own, his constant presence definitely put a strain on the young couple's relationship.

And Lachey certainly doesn't miss his former father-in-law either. "The best thing about not having Joe Simpson as a father-in-law is that I won't have to play catch under the table on Easter Sunday." 98 Degrees of Discord Jess and Nick never seemed to be on the same page when it came to starting a family together. Still, after their

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, Lachey told Jenny McCarthy on her Sirius the best thing he could have had." It happened that we did not have children. And look, you'll always love your kids no matter how you feel about their other parent, but all things being equal, it was probably the best thing for both of us to be.

Let's move on with our lives." Bad investment Another constant issue between Nick and Jessica during their marriage was the topic of their finances. Jessica reportedly made much more money than her husband, but he continued to constantly berate her for her lavish taste, especially when These were expensive items of clothing. "Anyone in their right mind would tell you that's too much for bras and panties. Especially when all you want to do is take them off anyway." However, after their marriage came to an end, it was Jessica who flipped the script and started complaining about the cash aspect.

In 2015, when asked what had been his biggest money mistake, he told CNBC's Closing Bell: "Biggest money mistakes? Don't know. For some reason I thought about my first marriage!" She was probably referring to the fact that her divorce from Lachey was quite expensive, as she had to pay him a whopping $12 million in the settlement. But who knows? Maybe Nick spent a lot in secret. Reality or Reality TV? Although Nick and Jessica were the perfect couple, Newlyweds definitely showed some of the major differences the two experienced once they got married and moved in together. "A lot of things were revealed when we started dating. live together.

He's very clean and a perfectionist." However, according to Nick, the show resulted in the couple playing their own extravagant roles instead of enjoying a genuine new marriage together. After their divorce, Lachey said in an interview with Rolling Stone that He and Simpson had a hard time coming back to reality once the cameras weren't rolling. The former boy bander said: "Jessica and I started playing these roles even when we were alone. It became a very blurry line. There was a question about what our reality really was." So having a remarriage recorded for the whole world to see isn't a great idea after all?

You don't say it. These boots are made for walking. Apparently Lachey didn't have a lot to say when it came to the end of their marriage. She has since admitted that she was surprised when Simpson told her she was ready to pull the plug on their union and that he asked her to "put it to sleep," but she had made up her mind and didn't. would change. Her attitude toward him hasn't changed much since. When Simpson was asked in 2015 how she would feel if she watched Newlyweds again, she bluntly said, "I would have a panic attack." Even if fans of the show are feeling nostalgic about all the silly goodness we got to see unfold on screen, for what it's worth, Lachey also seems to have a similar sentiment to Simpson's.

He recently said, "I've moved on, clearly she has. We've moved on, and we've adopted the kind of attitude now, at least I have, where I'm just not going to talk about this anymore. I mean, it's time for everyone to move on and let that be a thing of the past." In fact, their brief marriage is now nothing more than a chapter in her personal history books, as she married the former player of the NFL Eric Johnson, with whom he has two children. Meanwhile, Lachey married Vanessa Minnillo in 2011 and has three children with his second wife. But for fans of the newlyweds, their televised marriage will always be something to remember fondly, no matter how problematic it was all along.

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