Jessica Simpson has revealed she confronted and forgave the woman who sexually abused her for six years during childhood.
The singer, 40, opened up about the ordeal, explaining the family friend was also being abused by an “older guy”.
Speaking about the harrowing incident on Katherine Schwarzenegger’s The Gift of Forgiveness podcast, on Wednesday, the mum-of-three said that she came up against her abuser eight years ago.
She told the “monster”: “I just want you to know that I forgive you and I don’t really care to be around you that much ever again, but I do want you to know that I know what happened between us and I’m not gonna live in denial about it.”
Jessica Simpson revealed she confronted the family friend who abused her during her childhood (Image: Getty Images)
Jessica explained that her abuser was facing her own abuse from an older man, confessing she “felt bad for her”.
“I went to her and I just said, ‘I know you know what was going on and I know that you were being abused,’ because she was being abused by an older guy,” she continued.
Discussing the older guy, Jessica added: “He was always there at the house as well, so he never touched me, but he would abuse her and she would come to me and do the stuff to me and so, like in so many ways I felt bad for her and I was allowing the abuse to happen.
The singer said the abuse started when she was six and that she told her parents six years later (Image: jessicasimpson/Instagram)
“I told her in the moment, ‘I know that you have a lot to deal with.'”
Elsehwere in the candid interview, Jessica, who has three children with husband Eric Johnson, told her abuser to see and therapist in order to move past and “heal” from the abuse she endured.
She added: “I told her that 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.”
Jessica explained that the sexual abuse would happen at sleepovers (Image: jessicasimpson/Instagram)
Jessica first opened up about the abuse in her memoir Open Book, revealing that it started when she was six and that she didn’t tell her parents until she was 12-years-old.
In the book, the American star explained that the abuse took place at a family friend’s home by a girl who was one year older than her.
She said they had the sleepovers at least three times a year.
“It would start with tickling my back and then go into things that were extremely uncomfortable,” she wrote.
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