Jessica Simpson once again has her fans buzzing over potential trouble in her marriage to Eric Johnson after she posted a cryptic caption on her most recent social media post.
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00:00I was at one of P. Diddy's freak-offs.
00:03Freak-offs.
00:04You saw celebrities there that you recognized.
00:07Mm-hmm.
00:08It was a rapper that we all know.
00:11Straight-up porn directed by Diddy.
00:13I'm just grateful to have made it out.
00:15Jessica Simpson certainly sounds like she is fed up or at some point was fed up with her marriage to Eric Johnson.
00:22And she's working on new music.
00:25And I guess she's doing interviews to promote that.
00:30And she said this yesterday afternoon, which immediately had fans going, oh, their marriage is over.
00:36She said,
00:47The question, what does that mean?
00:49What is it she didn't deserve?
00:50A lot of people are saying this has to do with their marriage.
00:53There have been rumblings about this for several months now.
00:56So what we found out was that Jessica, as far as we know, has not had direct contact with a divorce lawyer.
01:05She may have.
01:06I don't know.
01:07But we don't know if she did.
01:09What we do know is there are two people directly connected to Jessica.
01:16Independently, each of them has interacted with a divorce lawyer, two separate divorce lawyers in Los Angeles.
01:25In one case, we are told that the person who talked to the divorce lawyer said Jessica is unhappy.
01:34The marriage is over.
01:35Would you talk to her?
01:37And this lawyer said yes.
01:40This was two weeks ago.
01:42And we are told that up to this point, Jessica has not reached out to that lawyer.
01:47The second situation involved somebody on her team who contacted a separate divorce lawyer about something divorce related.
01:56Again, we're told that there has been no direct contact that Jessica had with that lawyer as well.
02:03But it's interesting that two separate people have had those associations with two separate divorce lawyers.
02:11And it's not like this is coming out of the blue, Harvey.
02:13There have been whispers for a long time, some photos taken back in April with Jessica not wearing her ring, that there have been troubles between this couple.
02:21So the fact that we're sort of seeing a little bit more smoke really does suggest there probably is some fire here.
02:26They've been married for 10 years.
02:28They have three kids.
02:31There have been some ups and downs over the years.
02:36But this is interesting that that activity has been going on.
02:41By the way, that second one that I mentioned was a little more than a month ago.
02:47Yeah, I think it's also relevant and worth mentioning that Jessica is now, what, seven years sober?
02:54Yeah.
02:55And look, some of what that post that she put up last night could be referring to the music business, could be referring to her sobriety.
03:03She wasn't clear.
03:04And it could be that certainly, as Jason said, there's smoke here.
03:08So part of it might have to do with the marriage.
03:10But it does seem like—
03:12And there's no timetable for these things, right?
03:14I mean, they're going to take as long, obviously, as the couple wants to take.
03:16And then once you get into it, there's tremendous estates that these people have with lots of money and lots of assets at stake that you have to—
03:23Before they typically go public, right, they'll do some behind-the-scenes negotiations so it's all done once it comes out.
03:28Or they could stay together.
03:30Oh, sure, yeah.
03:33You didn't even think of that scenario.
03:35Jason's like, happy endings? No, no.
03:39Jessica Simpson has been through so much, from overcoming her battles with alcoholism to just navigating the ups and downs of fame itself.
03:49And if a divorce is on the horizon, I feel like she will be able to handle that.
03:54Now, I've been a fan since the Chicken of the Sea days.
03:58And if this is in her future, then I wish her all the best of luck.
04:02The Chicken of the Sea days.
04:04Wow, that is a—
04:05Boy, you took us back there.
04:06Way back.
04:07But that was a famous moment.