By India McCarty
Jessica Simpson got emotional during a recent concert after opening up about her sobriety journey.
“I realized that the drinking wasn’t numbing my pain. It was actually causing more pain,” Simpson admitted as she introduced a song titled “Give It All Away.”
She continued, “In all honesty, I’m just a work in progress, and I celebrate each and every day that I feel alive and in my body, and I’m very proud of myself. I want all of you to know that you should have a little grace for yourself, and everything is gonna be OK if you just give it all away, and that’s what this song is about.”
Simpson has been open about her battle with substance abuse. In a 2025 Instagram post, she reflected on her sobriety journey.
“8 years ago today I made the choice to confront, to confess and to let go of the self sabotaging parts of my life that I was choosing,” she wrote. “Making that decision allowed me to fully live in the pursuit of God’s purpose for my life. Alcohol silenced my intuition, blocked my dreams and chased my circulating fears of complacency.”
The singer continued, “Today I am clear. Today I am driven by faith. Both fear and faith are something that we feel and may not see, I’m so happy I chose faith over fear. It was not in the fight that I found my strength, it was in the surrender.”
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In addition to helping her live more fearlessly, Simpson also said that getting sober helped her grow as an artist.
“Every time I would write, I was a little afraid of myself. It was almost too much, especially because I was drinking at the time,” she said in a 2025 interview with The Cut. “But once I gave up the alcohol, the fears just diminished. They went away.”
Simpson said that, once she stopped drinking, it was “so much easier for me to access myself artistically.”
“I’d thought the more I drank, the more cool I could be and find cool words that would rhyme, that wouldn’t be so expected. I overthought it when I drank,” she said, adding that getting sober was actually “more empowering” for her as an artist.
“I now realize the power of words put to music,” Simpson concluded.
Simpson has been open about how getting sober changed her life for the better, always encouraging others to be kind to themselves as they tackle the challenges they face in their own lives.
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