Jessica Simpson Elle magazine cover September 2008 

I’m not sure why she is going public with this now (oh right, her country album comes out in September), but Jessica Simpson did an interview with Elle magazine and claims she was abused in a previous relationship.

On recording a song about abuse:

“I had to record that. There’s nothing on my album that you’re gonna hear that I don’t relate to or that I haven’t experienced. Because the only way I know how to sing is from life experience. I don’t want to talk about it, but I have definitely experienced abuse in a way that I would tell people to take their heart and run.”

In one of the tracks from her upcoming country album, Do You Know entitled “Remember That”, the Jessica can be heard singing:

“It doesn’t matter how he hurts you / With his hands or with his words / You don’t deserve it / It ain’t worth it / Take your heart and run.”

Jessica blabbers more about herself in the September issue of Elle. She is also on the cover of the mag wearing a flannel shirt, tight jeans, and a huge belt buckle. Jessica Simpson is determined to prove that she’s country y’all!