Jessica Simpson says she realized that her marriage to Nick Lachey was over when he opted out of accompanying her to Africa on a charity trip in October 2005.
“I went there on our three-year wedding anniversary,” she tells Jane magazine for its November issue. “He stayed home”. Although Simpson and Lachey had both been presented with the organization’s Universal Smile Award at a Los Angeles Gala, Simpson ended up traveling to Nakuru, Kenya, with hairdresser Ken Paves, friend Cacee Cobb and her manger-father, Joe Simpson.
Simpson, 26, says the trip changed her life. “On that day, everything became so clear. I was in hospitals with all these sick kids,” she says. “I just knew I needed to find something more in my life, on my own.”
Pictures: Jessica arriving in London
Inset: Jessica in Kenya in 2005
Tue, Oct 24, 2006
Jessica Simpson, Nick Lachey