Jessica Simpson Reveals She Sent Her Abuser ‘Open Book’: ‘I Hope It Brings Healing’

Several months after revealing she was sexually abused as a child, Jessica Simpson opened up about forgiving the perpetrator during a candid conversation with Katherine Schwarzenegger.

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“I would say about eight years ago I confronted her,” the 40-year-old singer recalled on the “Gift of Forgiveness” podcast on Wednesday, July 29. “I went to her and I just said, ‘I know you know what was going on and I know that you were being abused,’ ‘cause she was being abused by an older guy. And basically, and he was always there at the house as well — he never touched me, but he would abuse her and then she would come to me and do the stuff to me — and so in so many ways I felt bad for her and I was allowing the abuse to happen.”

In Simpon’s memoir, Open Book, which was released in February, she revealed she was abused by the daughter of a family friend from the ages of 6 to 12.

“I told her in the moment, ‘I know that you have a lot to deal with’ and I told her that I think she should probably talk to someone and find a way to understand those moments and to forgive those moments and to heal from those moments,” she explained to Schwarzenegger, 30. “And [I said], ‘I just want you to know that I forgive you and I don’t really care to be around you that much or ever again, but I do want you to know that, like, I know what happened between us and I’m not gonna live in denial about it.’”