- Jessica Simpson said after reading John Mayer’s Playboy interview in 2010 about their sex life – she deleted his number.
- “I was floored and embarrassed that my grandmother was actually gonna read that,” Simpson wrote in her new tell-all memoir “Open Book” about Mayer’s comment that she was “sexual napalm” to him.
- Simpson said while Mayer has since apologized for the comments, the pair haven’t been in touch since 2010.
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Jessica Simpson said it was “shocking” to see John Mayer refer to her as “sexual napalm” in a 2010 Playboy interview.
The 39-year-old called out her ex-boyfriend’s behaviour in a new tell-all memoir “Open Book,” excerpts of which were published by People, saying it’s not okay to publically discuss a woman’s performance in the bedroom.
“He thought that was what I wanted to be called. A woman and how they are in bed is not something that is ever talked about … It was shocking,” Simpson said.
Mayer, known for his long list of A-List relationships including Taylor Swift, Jennifer Aniston and Katy Perry, sat down with Playboy and coined the term “sexual napalm.”
"That girl, for me, is a drug. And drugs aren't good for you if you do lots of them," he said. "Yeah, that girl is like crack cocaine to me. Sexually it was crazy. That's all I'll say. It was like napalm, sexual napalm."
Simpson said in her memoir that she was terrified that her grandmother might read Mayer's interview.
"I was floored and embarrassed that my grandmother was actually gonna read that," she said.
Despite being hurt by Mayer's comments, Simpson said it also gave her more closure from the relationship as she "erased his number."
"He was the most loyal person on the planet and when I read that he wasn't ... He made it easy for me to walk away," she said.
The couple met at a Grammy afterparty back in 2005 where Mayer told her how much he admired her song "With You."
Later that year she divorced Nick Lachey and their relationship quickly intensified with Simpson saying in her memoir, "he wanted to have all of me or nothing."
While she acknowledged and accepted a public apology he made in The New York Times, she said they haven't been in contact since that Playboy interview.
"I think he knows a lot of this about me already but he doesn't know the perspective I have as a woman."
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