“Jessica Simpson includes several personal journal entries, including one about her divorce from Nick Lachey, in the new paperback edition of her bestselling memoir Open Book.

“In a page from the 40-year-old’s handwritten “divorce journal,” the singer opened up about her split from Lachey, 47, in 2005 after seven years together.

“”I didn’t want to be married any longer but I was also afraid to be alone with ‘no one to call my own but the night,'” she wrote in her black Mead notebook. “The house is hushed. Everything is still. I sit in solitude. To cry. To feel alone….””

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