Jessica Simpson in 2005’s “The Dukes of Hazzard.” (REUTERS)
Jessica Simpson refuses to accept John Mayer’s apology.
“I don’t accept it,” she told Oprah Winfrey on her show today. “I haven’t written back.”
Mayer had to apologize after his interview in the current issue of Playboy appeared last month. In it, the singer called Simpson “sexual napalm” and said having sex with her was like “crack cocaine.”
“Sexually, it was crazy,” he said. “That’s all I’ll say.”
Simpson told Winfrey that she couldn’t even read the interview.
“I tried to read the article and I was so so disappointed in him,” she said. “It made me so sad and it was really discouraging because that’s not the John that I knew.”
Simpson and Mayer dated on and off for two years.
She said that she’s “a little bit angry” at Mayer but acknowledged, “I guess I could have been a lot worse.”
With a laugh, she added that since the interview came out her “phone is ringing off the hook I have to say.”
But, she said, “I don’t want people to know how I am in bed!”
The constant scrutiny from all corners wears on Simpson.
“I can’t say that I’ve allowed myself to ignore it because it’s everywhere,” she said. “Those voices are sometimes in my head when I fall asleep.”
Simpson was on Winfrey’s program to plug her new reality show, “The Price of Beauty.”
In the VH1 series, Simpson will travel the globe to examine the varying local standards of good looks — which led to a discussion of another weighty subject.
The blond beauty told Winfrey that she’s “absolutely” happy with her body.
“I love my curves,” Simpson said. “I’m not going to ever be size 0 and I don’t want to weigh 90 pounds.”
Winfrey pointed out that she weighed close to that for 2005’s “Dukes of Hazzard” in which she wore short, tight jeans shorts, Simpson said, “I was playing a role. I don’t want to look like Daisy Duke every day. I don’t want to wear a bathing suit every day.”
But she admitted that the outcry last year over photos of her in high-waisted jeans looking a bit plump was her lowest point recently.
“People wouldn’t stop talking about my weight for an entire year,” she said.
“The fact that I was famous for gaining 10 pounds last year is ridiculous.”
When she was recently patted down by an airport security agent, the woman said to her, “Oh, you’re really not that big.”
Simpson said she thought, “Wow, people really think that I’m 245 pounds. It’s really a hard thing for me to talk about because I celebrate women of all sizes.”
Still, Simpson also acknowledged that she put herself in the spotlight with her MTV reality show about her marriage to then husband Nick Lachey.
“I do think that I opened myself up to the world to judgment, people’s opinions. In a lot of my ways it was my fault.”