"The moment I started drinking too much was when I started writing music in 2016 and it was making me go to places and feel sorry for myself," she says

Jessica Simpson is channeling her heartbreak through music. After releasing her first single "Use My Heart Against Me" from her new EP, Nashville Canyon: Part 1, which she wrote as she split from her husband Eric Johnson, the singer opened up about how music "truly saved" her life during this difficult period.

The singer, who announced last month that she separated from Eric Johnson, revealed her upcoming EP 'Nashville Canyon' - her first collection of songs in 15 years

Jessica Simpson has new music coming, and the singer says its helping to heal her heart. Simpson’s “Use My Heart Against Me” will debut this week, the first song off her upcoming “Nashville Canyon: Part 1” project. The single comes a month after she and her husband Eric Johnson announced are ending their marriage of a decade.

Jessica Simpson says Eric Johnson "will always be" part of her life after she announced their separation last month. The singer, who is releasing her new music this week, reflected on her former relationship with Johnson in an exclusive interview with People in this week's issue, and opened up about how music has healed her.

"I got thrown a real twist of fate in the middle of making this record," the star tells PEOPLE Jessica Simpson’s first song from her new EP: Nashville Canyon: Part 1 drops this week and she reveals the story behind her very personal songs,

Jessica Simpson has revealed she experienced her "deepest heartbreak" amid her split from Eric Johnson. The singer opened up to her sister, Ashlee Simpson Ross, about her 2024 separation from Eric Johnson and how the experience inspired her to write the upcoming EP,