Jessica Simpson Reveals Why Prince Displayed A Photo Of Her Smile On His Fireplace Mantel

Prince apparently once gave Jessica Simpson a very specific shoutout in his home.

The 44-year-old singer recalled in a new interview how the late musician used a photo of her smile as a symbol for staying strong while navigating the cutthroat music industry.

“Prince, back in the day, we would get into spiritual conversations. One time during this Grammys party, I went to his house and he was kind of waiting for me. The door opens and he’s standing there. He’s like, ‘Ms. Jessica?’ And I’m like, ‘Yeah, Mr. Prince?’” Jessica revealed to The Cut.

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She continued: “He took me by the hand and said, ‘I want to show you something.’ People are walking around with their Grammys, their accolades, and he had just released Musicology. He couldn’t stand where music was, and he wanted to school people on where music should be. He walks me to his mantel, and he’s like, ‘Do you notice anything?’ I look up and there’s one thing on his mantel, and it was a cutout picture of just my smile framed. I was like, ‘Is that my smile?’”

“He was like, ‘Yes, and I want you to look very closely at that smile and know that no matter how many talks we have about being Jehovah’s Witness or nondenominational or Baptist or whatever it is, God is in that smile. Don’t let any man ever take that smile away from you, and do not let this music business take that smile away from you,’” she added.

Deeply moved, Jessica then decided to reciprocate the gesture in her own home.

“I put Prince on the mantel of my house in Nashville, this dope black-and-white photo that was him in his element. Just to remember the importance of my smile through whatever it is that I am going through, wherever it is I’m leading myself through, that I am my own guide,” she said.

Recently, Jessica spoke out about her split from Eric Johnson.