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Nick Lachey made a small diss in opposition to his ex-wife Jessica Simpson, 17 years after they cut up up, through the Love is Blind reunion particular, which dropped on Netflix on Wednesday, November 9. Whereas talking to one of many {couples} who tied the knot on the fact present, the present’s host, 48, made a sly reference to his former marriage throughout a query for Matt Bolton. “[Marriage] is at all times higher the second time, proper?” he requested.
Matt had been married as soon as earlier than occurring Love is Blind. On the present, he met his now-wife Colleen Reed, who he married within the present’s finale. He revealed his former marriage all through the course of the present, and he agreed with Nick’s remark about second marriage. “Cheers, bud,” he stated.
Nick and Jessica, 42, had gotten married October 2002, however separated in November 2005. When the “I Wanna Love You Ceaselessly” actress filed for divorce, she cited “irreconcilable variations.” They finalized their divorce the next yr. Nick married his second spouse Vanessa, who additionally co-hosts Love is Blind, in July 2011. Nick and Vanessa, 42, have three kids collectively. Jessica additionally remarried. She’s been together with her husband Eric Johnson, 43, since 2014, and so they have three children.
Within the years since Nick and Jessica broke up, the pair have been open about their relationship and divorce. The Dukes of Hazard actress revealed she felt lonely after Nick remarried in her memoir Open E-book. “I’m saddened past perception. Alone at the hours of darkness, with nobody to name my very own,” she wrote in a diary entry, revealed within the memoir.
Whereas Jessica wrote a lot about their marriage within the e-book, Nick revealed he had no intentions to learn it, as a result of he “lived it” in a November 2021 interview with SiriusXM. “I do know what the reality is so I don’t have to learn it, or learn somebody’s model of it in a narrative that I do know, that I lived it. No, I by no means learn it,” he stated.
Regardless of sharing intense particulars in her e-book, Jessica additionally admitted that she has principally optimistic emotions about her ex in a 2020 interview with Glamour surrounding the e-book. “I nonetheless have a whole lot of love for Nick, as a result of he taught me the best way to be,” she stated. “I attempted to deal with the whole lot [in the book about him] with as a lot care as potential.”
