With What 'Massive Movie Star' Did Jessica Simpson Have a Secret Make-Out Affair?

Jessica Simpson has written a short story, “Movie Star: They Always Say They’re Single,” about a make-out affair she had with a “massive movie star” back in 2006. She doesn’t identify the actor, but the Internet has been treating it like a blind item and has surmised that it’s almost certainly Mark Wahlberg. The details line up (and we know it’s not Johnny Knoxville, with whom she once admitted to having an “emotional affair.”)

I read the short story to confirm the Internet’s speculation, and it checks out. Simpson said that she met him for the first time at the 2001 MTV Movie Awards. He was a “massive movie star” that she grew up thinking was “hot.” (Wahlberg’s career with the Funky Bunch preceded Simpson’s career in the industry). He was wearing “jeans and a T-shirt,” and Jezebel confirmed that Wahlberg was wearing jeans and a shirt at the awards show.

The Movie Star “eyeballed” her “up and down, like he was “undressing her.” Simpson said that he made “millions and millions per film,” which sort of checks out for the time (he’d made The Perfect Storm and Planet of the Apes.

Simpson said they reconnected in 2006 after Simpson and Nick Lachey divorced. He had a girlfriend but insisted they were over and only continued to appear together to avoid having to answer questions. Wahlberg began dating Rhea Durham in 2001, but they did not get married until 2009.

The actor texted her from a “big awards show.” Wahlberg was at the Oscars in 2006 for The Departed. They had “different faiths.” She was into Jesus (she was Baptist), and his spiritual advisor thought that “having sex brings you closer to God.” Wahlberg is Catholic, and that just sounds like something Wahlberg would say, doesn’t it? He invited her out to a film set where he was working on the East Coast with a director known “to even the most casual movie fan.” That sounds like M. Night Shyamalan and The Happening, released in 2008 but likely shot in 2006.

She went out to meet him on his private jet. He — through his personal assistant — sneaked her into a hotel room, and they met later that night. They didn’t have sex, and he was pissed about it. He did sleep in her room, but the next day, she left and went to New York with a friend. He called and left her a message that night, weeping, asking why she’d left. “I can’t believe you’d just up and leave me.”

Crying to manipulate a woman into sleeping with him? That sounds like Mark Wahlberg, doesn’t it?