Jessica Simpson has revealed she experienced her "deepest heartbreak" amid her split from Eric Johnson.
The singer opened up to her sister, Ashlee Simpson Ross, about her 2024 separation from Eric Johnson and how the experience inspired her to write the upcoming EP, Nashville Canyon.
The record was created, "through the deepest heartbreak of my life," Jessica, 44, told Ashlee, 40 in an interview for The Cut.
"It was the most intense yet enlightening therapy I've ever been through."
She added the writing and recording process had been very different as an independent artist from albums she made in the past, as she was no longer beholden to a record company.
"The music releases from my younger years were all over the place in terms of actual direction. It was always about following pop-music trends no matter the cost," Jessica explained.
"Even if I didn't love what I was singing, it was what the label needed of me. I was always going to abide by the rules because I was taught to be a rule-abider."
Jessica also reflected on how much quitting drinking had affected her songwriting ability.
"Once I gave up the alcohol, the fears just diminished. They went away. And it was so much easier for me to access myself artistically," she shared.
"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. I overthought it when I drank."