“He took me by the hand and said, ‘I want to show you something,'” Simpson recalled of the ‘Purple Rain’ singer saying to her at a Grammy party at his home. Prince used an image of Jessica Simpson as motivation. In an interview for The Cut — alongside her sister Ashlee Simpson Ross — the “With You” singer recalled the moment she made this wild discovery while attending a party of the late icon’s. “Prince, back in the day, we would get into spiritual conversations. One time during this Grammys party, I went to his house and he was kind of waiting for me. The door opens and he’s standing there. He’s like, ‘Ms. Jessica?’ And I’m like, ‘Yeah, Mr. Prince?'” she revealed to the publication. “He took me by the hand and said, ‘I want to show you something.’ People are walking around with their Grammys, their accolades, and he had just released Musicology,” she continued. “He couldn’t stand where music was, and he wanted to school people on where music should be. He walks me to his mantel, and he’s like, ‘Do you notice anything?’ I look up and there’s one thing on his mantel, and it was a cutout picture of just my smile framed. I was like, ‘Is that my smile?'” “He was like, ‘Yes, and I want you to look very closely at that smile and know that no matter how many talks we have about being Jehovah’s Witness or nondenominational or Baptist or whatever it is, God is in that smile. Don’t let any man ever take that smile away from you, and do not let this music business take that smile away from you,'” she revealed.
Simpson felt touched when Prince put her smile on his wall to remember him to stay strong in the business. She wanted to do something nice for the star in return.
“I put this cool black-and-white picture of Prince in his element on the mantel of my Nashville home.” “I need to remember how important my smile is no matter what I’m going through or where I’m leading myself because I am my own guide,” she said.
Simpson just recently talked about how she and her ex-husband Eric Johnson are getting along now that they are no longer together.
In an interview with PEOPLE, the singer—who told the magazine in January that she and Johnson were no longer together—talked about making new songs after the breakup.
“Use My Heart Against Me,” Simpson’s 44th song in years, will come out this Friday. It’s the first song from her new EP, Nashville Canyon: Part 1.
“I’m so much older now.” She told PEOPLE, “I can handle a lot.” “Maybe I’m just meant to love a lot of people in my life.”
Simpson went on, “I don’t know why my heart gets tossed around, but I’m one of the lucky ones,” and then she told Johnson about her present relationship. “At least I still have Eric and my kids.” He will always be a big part of my life.
The mom of three is putting out an EP on March 21. She taped it at their rental home in Franklin, Tennessee, which is close to Nashville.