Jessica Simpson has revealed how alcoholism turned her into somebody she "was afraid of".
The 45-year-old singer and fashion designer celebrated eight years of sobriety in November 2025, and earlier this week she reflected on her battle with addiction as she spoke to fans during a live concert.
Speaking before new song Give It All Away, she told the crowd in Highland, California: “I didn’t understand all of the traumas that I was holding onto.
"And it was really painful once I started searching in myself to find what I could reveal.
"I became somebody that I was afraid of, somebody I did not know and understand.”
Jessica admitted she felt like she "wasn't being a good role model" as a mother, while she described alcohol as a "crutch".
She explained: "I was a mother and I felt I wasn’t being a good role model and it wasn’t until a year later that I realised that the drinking wasn’t numbing my pain, it was actually causing more.
"It was a crutch that was wasn’t working.”
The mother-of-three described herself as a "work in progress", while she is grateful for each day she feels "alive".
She added: “In all honesty, I’m 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 so it felt right to share this song with you.
“I want all of you to know that you should have a little grace for yourself and everything is gonna be okay if you just give it all away.”
Jessica previously wrote about her sobriety in an Instagram post last last year, having made the decision after a drunken Halloween in 2017.
She said: "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. “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.
“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.”
