Jessica Simpson shares Ashton Kutcher’s reaction to her being a virgin at 22

Jessica Simpson made headlines during her early career when she revealed that she was planning to wait until marriage to have sex — but somehow Ashton Kutcher missed the memo.

During an interview with Entertainment Tonight reflecting on her career, the “I Wanna Love You Forever” singer recalled a conversation with Kutcher about her decision to remain a virgin into her early 20s. Simpson starred as Annette on season 5 of That ’70s Show, on which Kutcher played Michael Kelso as a series regular.

“I’ll never forget telling Ashton I was a virgin,” Simpson told the outlet. “He was like, ‘Why?'”

The singer, who had been dating future husband Nick Lachey at the time, continued, “I was like, ‘Because I haven’t met my husband yet.’ I mean, I had met my husband at that time, but I was a virgin. Guys like that.”

Simpson called herself “very innocent” during those days, explaining, “I’m not thinking about other people and their sex lives at all.”

She 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. It wouldn’t be like, ‘Hi, my name’s Jessica Simpson. I’m a virgin.'”

Looking back, Simpson acknowledged that her record label was “probably shocked” that she shared such personal information. “But I’ve always been open. Legs crossed — but open,” she quipped.

Simpson opened up about her relationship with sex and Lachey in her 2020 memoir, Open Book, in which she also revealed that alcohol was a way to self-medicate and dull the pain of being sexually abused as a child and help her cope with the stress of childhood fame.

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Recalling the night she and Lachey retired to their honeymoon suite to consummate their marriage, Simpson confessed it was awkward for both parties involved.

“What I didn’t know then is that everyone’s first time is awkward,” Simpson writes. “And that is part of it. And that it’s okay, but at the time, it’s tough to understand. I had joined a long line of virgins in my family who said yes to forever for that one experience.”

She and Lachey called it quits in 2005 — with Lachey getting a pretty penny in the divorce settlement that the singer called the price of her freedom in her memoir — and Simpson went on to marry retired NFL player Eric Johnson.

Simpson and Johnson share three children together: daughter Maxwell Drew, son Ace Knute, and daughter Birdie Mae. The two were married for 10 years before announcing their split earlier this year.

Although Simpson took a step back from the spotlight to raise her family and devote herself to her billion-dollar fashion line, the Jessica Simpson Collection, she’s recently experienced something of a career renaissance.

She returned to the stage for the first time in over a decade in March and graced TV screens in Ryan Murphy’s new legal drama, All’s Fair. 

“I feel like at 45, I’m born again,” Simpson told E! News at the show’s L.A. premiere last month. “It’s, like, a resurrection of everything entertainment for me and it’s so nice.”