Did Jessica Simpson and Mark Wahlberg hook up? Actress says her 'teenage fantasy' came to life after meeting mystery man
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA: Jessica Simpson has been capturing our hearts for years with her music and acting projects - the singer rose to fame with the release of her debut album Sweet Kisses and has not stopped since. Her personal life has also been a topic of much media attention for years. Simpson was married to '98 Degrees' frontman Nick Lachey for four years from 2002 to 2006 before she found love again with football player Eric Johnson, to whom she has been married since 2014. Recently, however, Simpson had revealed that she had a brief affair with a mystery man - and there is reason to believe that it is Mark Wahlberg.
Simpson recently revealed that she fulfilled a "teenage fantasy" by hooking up with a "massive movie star" in a new "short and true story" She had commented on 'Movie Star': They Always Say They're Single,' and all indications point to 'The Departed' star. "He was undressing me with his eyes," the singer told about the man, whose name she does not give, after meeting him at the 2001 MTV VMAs while she was on a break with then-husband Lachey.
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Simpson had noted that the mystery man had worn jeans and a T-shirt, and Wahlberg had worn just that to the event that year, Page Six reports. She had also mentioned that the actor also knew her trainer - and if there's anyone in Hollywood known for military discipline in training, it's Wahlberg.
Wahlberg was famous even then, suggesting that he may have been a crush of Simpson's. She noted that she met the mystery man again in 2006 at a Beverly Hills hotel as he prepared for an awards ceremony. “He texted me throughout the awards show,” she said about when she found out he was not single. “Shortly after, I saw a photo of Movie Star on a red carpet with her. I was never ever in a million years going to be the other woman.”
'Felt like a call girl': Jessica Simpson called it quits with the mystery man
In that year Wahlberg's now- wife Rhea Durham was pregnant, but Simpson makes no mention of a baby. She goes on to say that said husband convinced her that the marriage was over and she continued their affair. She even went so far as to visit him on the set of a major filmmaker - this could be the time Wahlberg was shooting for M Night Shyamalan's 'The Happening," though the dates do not quite add up.
Simpson then broke up with him when she felt "like a call girl" who was only there to "have sex" with him. "I didn't care if he was my teenage fantasy come to life, this was not a choice that same girl, my younger self, would be proud of," she wrote. Simpson also said of the mystery man, "I will tell you this...he is still a movie star," which Wahlberg certainly is today.