The web was buzzing after Jessica Simpson carried out on the American Idol finale. Her first tv efficiency in 15 years obtained blended critiques from viewers, and Simpson opened up about how dangerous her nerves had been earlier than she stepped on stage.
“Oh my God, I used to be dying,” she admitted to Further. “I can’t even let you know how lengthy it’s been since I’ve been that nervous. Like, I needed to put hairspray on my toes to face nonetheless. Like, not that it truly retains me put, however, like, my toes had been sweating. I’m like, ‘My toes don’t sweat!’”
Throughout the efficiency, Simpsons mentioned she needed to hold telling herself to not cry. “Then I see my dad, like, up within the nook and I’m like, ‘Ah, I’m going to cry. I’m going to cry. Don’t cry. Simply sing your songs. Simply sing your songs.’”
Simpson sang the track “Blame Me” off her Nashville Canyon, Half 1, EP, which got here out in March. She additionally teamed up with Idol contestant Josh King for a rendition of “These Boots Had been Made for Walkin’.”
“[It’s been] a extremely very long time, and, like, the final time [I performed] was a Christmas track, in order that’s simple,” she defined. “That is my new EP, Nashville Canyon, Half 1, I imply, half two comes in the summertime. However it’s so a lot part of my soul, and so to sing a track off of that, I felt bare, to be trustworthy. Like, it was very naked and uncooked and really weak.”
Though there have been some on-line critics, a very powerful individuals in Simpson’s life had her again after the present. “I had my children FaceTiming all people to inform me I did a great job,” she gushed. “And I haven’t gotten to speak to them but, however I’m so excited to speak to them as a result of they’ve by no means seen me sing dwell like that.”
Simpson shares her three kids with estranged husband Eric Johnson.