Jessica Simpson is opening up about her journey to sobriety.

The “With You” singer spoke with her younger sister, Ashlee Simpson Ross, about giving up alcohol in a soul-baring interview published in The Cut.

“Around 2016, ’17, I was writing out here in L.A. with some of the biggest hitmakers,” Simpson explained. “I have songs from those times that I never released because they just didn’t feel like me. Every time I would write, I was a little afraid of myself. It was almost too much, especially because I was drinking at the time.”

“But once I gave up the alcohol, the fears just diminished. They went away,” the “Newlyweds” star said.

“And it was so much easier for me to access myself artistically. I’d thought the more I drank, the more cool I could be and find cool words that would rhyme, that wouldn’t be so expected,” Simpson added. “I overthought it when I drank.”

Simpson has spoken about her sobriety before, and wrote in her memoir that she was sexually abused as a child, which prompted her “self-medicate with alcohol and stimulants.”

She has celebrated sober anniversaries publicly on social media, and told fans about all that she’s worked through.

“The real work that needed to be done in my life was to actually accept failure, pain, brokenness, and self sabotage,” Simpson wrote in an Instagram post marking four years without alcohol. “The drinking wasn’t the issue. I was. I didn’t love myself. I didn’t respect my own power. Today I do.”

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