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Ashton Kutcher was surprised to learn Jessica Simpson was a 22-year-old virgin.
The “With You” singer, 45, reflected on her career in a recent interview with Entertainment Tonight and recalled a conversation with Kutcher, 47, whom she starred alongside as Annette on season 5 of That ’70s Show, about her virgin status as a young adult.
“I’ll never forget telling Ashton I was a virgin,” Simpson told the outlet. “He was like, ‘Why?'”
She continued, “I was like, ‘Because I haven’t met my husband yet.’ I mean, I had met my husband [Nick Lachey] at that time, but I was a virgin. Guys like that.”
The businesswoman — whose new Mystic Canyon perfume is out now — then spoke further about how being a virgin at the time became a large part of her public narrative: “At this age, I’m very, very innocent. I’m not thinking about other people and their sex lives at all.”
Simpson added, “It was just something that I talked about, I think in an interview maybe. I’m sure they asked me, like, what type of guy I liked or something.”
“They had to have asked me something about sex,” she explained. “It wouldn’t be like, ‘Hi, my name’s Jessica Simpson. I’m a virgin.'”
Looking back, Simpson thinks her record label was “probably shocked” for her to divulge such personal information. “But I’ve always been open,” she said. “Legs crossed — but open.”
Elsewhere in the interview, the musician revealed she filmed a music video for her debut single “I Wanna Love You Forever” starring Kutcher that was ultimately scrapped.
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“There’s a ‘version one’ that nobody has ever seen, and we need to get Sony to release the rights to that because I casted Ashton Kutcher as the male model, my love interest,” said Simpson. “And we had to, like, waltz.”
“We were waltzing in this huge mansion, and it was ballroom dancing. It was a whole thing. It was a million-dollar video,” she recalled. “What happened was my hair was a little bit wavy. And the head of the label wanted my hair straight.”
Ultimately, the video was “canned” and Simpson “quickly” shot another version “that was the complete opposite of what I had just done.” She dished, “There was no love interest, you know? It was just me in a vintage plane, in a field of fake daisies, sunflowers or something.”
