The two singers dated of and in almost a year since the summer of 2006, several months after her split from husband Nick Lachey. Simpson opened about her relationship with Mayer in her 2020 memoir, Open book. She said he repeatedly said to her ‘he was obsessed by me, sexually and emotionally. “
Mayer had said Playboy 2010 that Simpson was like “Crack Cocaine” to him and added, “Sexually it was crazy. That’s all I say. It was like Napalm, sexual napalm. “
This did not sit well with his ex. “He thought that was what I wanted to be called,” Simpson wrote in his memoir. “I was floored and embarrassed that my grandmother would actually read it.”
Two years later, Mayer expressed regret about their comments, tells NPR“I had nothing to say. I went through a time in my life where I didn’t really want to share what happened, but I didn’t want to be boring.”
Simpson also wrote in her book that she was constantly worried that she was “not smart enough” for Mayer and added, “My anxiety would nail and I would pour another drink. It was the beginning that I relied on alcohol to mask my nerves.”
On April 1, 2020, Said Mayer it See what happens live with Andy Cohen that he had “heard a few pieces” about Simpson’s memoir and added, “but as Pee Wee Herman says in pee week’s great adventure Before his life’s movie is playing in the end, he doesn’t watch the movie, and the reason he doesn’t watch the movie, he says: ‘I don’t have to watch it, Dottie, I lived it.’ And I think it’s prescient here. “
