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Direct From Hollywood With Ryan Seacrest: Jessica Simpson's Emotional Return to Music · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

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Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood. Well, Jessica Simpson just released Nashville Canyon
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Speaker 1: Part One, her first album in a decade and a half,
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Speaker 1: which might also be her most personal project to date.
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Speaker 1: Jessica and husband Eric Johnson announced their separation in January
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Speaker 1: of twenty twenty four, following a decade of marriage, and
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Speaker 1: she opened up the crowd at a recent performance at
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Speaker 1: Willie Nelson's farm in Texas about how that split impacted
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Speaker 1: her life and creativity, saying, I had my heart wide open.
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Speaker 1: I was in a very intuitive state, and I had
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Speaker 1: to ask myself some very personal questions on the home front,
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Speaker 1: and I found that my world had been turned upside
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Speaker 1: down and that life was now very different. When we
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Speaker 1: open our hearts, it can be vulnerable and get broken,
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Speaker 1: and maybe we've been broken for a really long time.
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Speaker 1: But when we meet ourselves, when we write, sing, and
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Speaker 1: connect with ourselves, we find all the answers. The words
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Speaker 1: of Jessica Simpson, whose new album Nashville Canyon Part One
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Speaker 1: is out now. That's direct from Hollywood