“Jessica Simpson has written a memoir titled “Open Book,” in which she reveals a struggle with alcohol and pills that led her to believe she was killing herself.
“Excerpted in this week’s People magazine, Simpson says in the book she began self-medicating with alcohol and pills after dealing with the pain of being sexually abused as a young girl.
“Career pressures added to the stress, which led her to tell a doctor she was in trouble.
““I was killing myself with all the drinking and pills,” she writes, adding that she got sober in November 2017 and hasn’t had a drink since. “Giving up the alcohol was easy. I was mad at that bottle. At how it allowed me to stay complacent and numb.””
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