Jessica Simpson set the record straight on seating her kids in coach while she enjoyed a top notch flight to Hawaii.
“My mom bought those tickets,” Simpson, 45, told photographers on Wednesday, May 20, per Page Six, noting she didn’t select the seating arrangement. “It was my mom’s treat for us to go to Hawaii.”
Paparazzi then asked the singer if she would have sat together with her kids — Maxwell, 14, Ace, 12, and Birdie, 7, whom she shares with estranged husband Eric Johnson — if she bought the tickets herself. “In fact!” she replied.
Simpson’s revelation comes after her ex-husband, Nick Lachey, shared that he bumped into her on the flight during an episode of Watch What Happens Live.
“I consider her kids and her — I’m not accustomed to where they stand, but — her husband, perhaps, were on the plane but not with us,” Lachey, 52, said, noting that her mom, Tina Ann Drew, was also on the flight.
Host Andy Cohen then asked if all her children were on the flight, but in “in a separate class of service,” to which Lachey confirmed.
As for his or her first run-in in 20 years, Lachey said it was “strangely OK.”
“You understand, it’s been 20 years, and so we hadn’t seen one another in those 20 years after which spent six and a half hours on a flight to Hawaii together,” he recalled. “Once I say ‘spent,’ [I mean] in the identical vicinity. Everyone was very cordial, very respectful.” Lachey added, “It was truthfully … it was advantageous.”
Lachey, for his part, was flying along with his wife, Vanessa Lachey, and their three kids: Camden, 13, Brooklyn, 11, and Phoenix, 9.
Jessica Simpson had a surprise reunion with ex-husband Nick Lachey, Us Weekly can confirm. Simpson, 45, and Lachey, 52, were on the identical flight from Los Angeles to Hawaii late last month. “They really did say hello, and it was a pleasant, cordial conversation,” a source told Us. TMZ was first to report the news […]
Fans were quick to share their thoughts on Simpson not sitting together with her little ones within the comments section. “Andy so messy ~ mentioning the coach seats 🤣,” one wrote. A second commented, “Mother’s Day gift for the win.. the mothers get top notch and let the dad take care of kids behind you 👏.” A 3rd fan commented, “Good for her putting the youngsters in coach LOL she deserves a break.”
Simpson and Lachey met in 1998 and commenced dating a month later. In February 2002, they got engaged and tied the knot later that yr. Lachey and Simpson then starred in MTV’s Newlyweds: Nick & Jessica, where they navigated life together for 3 seasons before they confirmed their separation in November 2005. Their divorce was finalized in June 2006.
Simpson then found love with Johnson, 46, in 2010. 4 years later, they got married in California. In January 2025, Simpson confirmed that they split.