Lengthy earlier than wedding ceremony bells rang for both of them, Jessica Simpson as soon as joked about marrying NASCAR legend Dale Earnhardt Jr. in a dream.
Throughout a candid dialog concerning the early days of her relationship with the sports activities legend, Amy Earnhardt joked that the pop star “tried to fish my man.”
“It’s 2008, possibly [2009]. We had simply began relationship, and I believe I’m nonetheless dwelling in Jacksonville, however I come as much as Daytona to hang around with Dale. And I hear that Jessica Simpson’s on the racetrack. We’re the identical age. We each got here from Texas, so I’ve at all times type of been a fan of hers,” Amy recalled on her “Bless Your ‘Hardt” podcast.
On the time, she mentioned she was enthusiastic about the potential for assembly the “I Wanna Love You Perpetually” singer.
“And I’m like, ‘Hey, Dale, do you assume that you possibly can get Jessica Simpson to come back to the bus so I may meet her?’ And he’s like, ‘I don’t assume that’d be a extremely good concept.’ And I used to be like, ‘Why not?’”
“And he reveals me this clip … of her doing an interview earlier that day, how she had had a dream that she and Dale Jr. bought married in a treehouse.”
Amy then drew the road.
“And I’m like, ‘Yeah… don’t convey that b—- over right here. It’s a good suggestion,” Amy joked as Dale laughed.
She added that the second left an enduring impression.
“I haven’t purchased a Jessica Simpson shoe or a bag — , how she’s bought all of the issues — ever since then. I used to be like, she was f—ing attempting to fish my man … Sure, she was. She knew precisely what she was doing.”
The alleged close to run-in occurred within the late 2000s, when Amy and Dale Jr. have been simply beginning their relationship and Simpson was rising to pop stardom.
Simpson later met former NFL participant Eric Johnson in Could 2010. The 2 bought engaged six months later and married in 2014 after welcoming their first two youngsters, Maxwell and Ace. They welcomed daughter Birdie in 2019.
In November 2024, Johnson was noticed with out his wedding ceremony ring as Simpson centered on a music comeback.
“She’s engaged on music and splits her time between Los Angeles and Nashville. Eric spends all of his time in LA, the place the children go to highschool,” a supply instructed Folks on the time.
“Jess and Eric very a lot reside separate lives.”
In the meantime, Dale Jr. and Amy tied the knot in 2016 and now share two daughters, Isla, 7, and Nicole, 5.
