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As she grew up, Simpson said she self-medicated to dull the pain of the abuse as well as the stress of fame.

\"I was killing myself with all the drinking and pills,\" she admitted to People, explaining she got clean and sober in 2017 and never looked back.

But Simpson had to hit bottom first and that came after a Halloween party at her house that year, when she realized, \"I need to stop. Something's got to stop. And if it’s the alcohol that's doing this, and making things worse, then I quit.\"

She added, \"Giving up the alcohol was easy. I was mad at that bottle. At how it allowed me to stay complacent and numb.\"

Simpson also talked about her three-year marriage to Nick Lachey, and her life now with her \"soul mate,\" Eric Johnson, whom she married in 2014.

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The pair have three kids: 7-year-old daughter Maxwell, a 6-year-old son Ace and baby girl Birdie, who's 10 months old.

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