Jessica Simpson has opened up about her heartbreaking divorce from Nick Lachey.
In the new paperback edition of her bestselling memoir Open Book, the star has included a number of personal diary entries she wrote in 2005 following their separation.
In one note, she calls out out her ex-husband for moving on so quickly with Vanessa Minnillo – who he went on to marry in 2011.
"So Nick, u r with another already?" she wrote. "Seems that you forgot the love you spoke to me…"
Opening up about why she decided to end the marriage, she continued: "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.
"The house is hushed. Everything is still. I sit in solitude. To cry. To feel alone…."
"What a shame to find that which is or who is to blame, because in this world, deceit becomes a crippled hearts [sic] cane."
"It is only because I am alone in the dark [with] no one to call my own, but the night. Oh night, love me tenderly, love me quiet, find me happy, find me right. Oh lord, let your star shine upon me tonight."
Ahead of the book's release last year, Simpson described Lachey as her "first love". However, she admitted that the relationship was strained when the cameras weren't rolling for their reality TV series Newlyweds.
"We worked and we were great at it but when it came time to being alone, we weren't great at it anymore," she told People. "We really got crushed by the media and by ourselves.
"I couldn’t lie to our fans and I couldn’t give somebody hope that we were this perfect golden couple.”
Following the release of the book last year, Lachey, now 47, gave his response to Today.
"I'll be honest, I obviously haven't read the book, so I don't know what she said or what she revealed there, but I'm certainly happy for her and her life, I know she is happy for us," he said.
"There's definitely a mutual respect there, so that's, you know, obviously it was a long time ago; we've all moved on."
