Jessica Simpson released her memoir 'Open Book', where she shared various secrets from her personal and professional life, evidencing the behavior of some celebrities toward her.
However, it seems there was at least one anecdote that didn't make a print at the time, with Jessica surprising fans with a new reveal this week.
It is about a fleeting and brief romance that she lived with a movie star at the beginning of the two thousand. Jessica admits in the text titled 'Movie Star' that she had fallen in love with this mystery person growing up, but he left her feeling "like a whore" when she only made a date to have s*x behind the back of her then-partner.
In the book, Simpson details a sort of courtship with "a huge movie star" whom he met on the red carpet at the 2001 MTV Video Music Awards. "As our mutual friend, my bodyguard, spoke, this megastar, who I grew up thinking was so hot, looked me up and down," writes Jessica Simpson. "Like she was undressing me with her eyes, which was fine because she had a lot of reasons to ditch that outfit and change me."
According to the account, Jessica ran into him again at the gym soon after, however, it would be years before anything really happened with the "movie star".
And what happened wasn't much really. Jessica recounts that they hung out and kissed: “We would find a quiet place to talk. We kissed sometimes, and I felt the same emotion each time. But mostly we just talked." She found out pretty early on that he had a girlfriend and saw them together on a red carpet, but when she confronted him, he told her: “It's completely over. You of all people understand that. I swear, we're not together. You're the only girl I want to be with. You are that."
But the story didn't quite end there because she, plus her, later on, would make a proposal that didn't turn out as she imagined. It all broke down when she refused to have S- with him after he took her to a hotel near the set of a movie she was filming. “We didn't have S-, and he had the nerve to be angry,” Jessica says. “But it didn't matter, I knew that all this was ending. I didn't care if he was my teenage fantasy come true, this was not a choice that same girl, my younger self, would be proud of,” she commented.
Who is the movie star in Jessica Simpson's book? These are some theories
With these statements, some media outlets have taken on the task of investigating the photos from that awards ceremony and ruling out options about who could have been the protagonist of the brief romance with Simpson and everything points to a name: Mark Wahlberg.
Insights that throw this name over others is the fact that Jessica comments that the man and she shared "the same reverence for God" and Wahlberg is notoriously Catholic. Another clue is that Wahlberg began dating Rhea Durham in 2001 and finally married her in 2009, which coincides with the timeline of the story.
This theory has been supported on social networks, since Mark, like Simpson, was at the VMAs of the mentioned year and had a movie in 2007. In addition to the fact that the actor used a look like the one described in the story.
