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Ashlee Simpson<\/strong><\/a> is sharing an important lesson she learned from her Saturday Night Live<\/em><\/a> lip-syncing fiasco nearly two decades later.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve never talked about or said, but it\u2019s like the other thing is, learning as a woman, when you say no or as an artist or a human or whatever, that day I said \u2018I will not go on, I don\u2019t care. I can\u2019t speak,\u2019\u201d Simpson, 39, said on the Monday, February 19, episode of the \u201cBroad Ideas With Rachel Bilson & Olivia Allen\u201d<\/a> podcast.<\/p>\n

While appearing as a musical guest for the late night sketch series in October 2004, Simpson was thrown when she began facing vocal issues before the show, quickly discovering she had \u201ctwo nodules beating against each other\u201d causing her to lose her voice. Despite initially saying she wasn\u2019t going to perform, the singer claimed she was asked to hit the stage anyway with pre-recorded vocals.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy band has never practiced this, this is not going to go well,\u201d she recalled thinking. \u201cI can\u2019t do this.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\tSaturday Night Live\u2019s hosts and musical guests are typically the center of attention each week \u2014 but sometimes more famous faces steal the show. Tyler Cameron crashed Kim Kardashian\u2019s hosting debut in October 2021, joining her for a Bachelor-inspired sketch. \u201cThat [experience] was incredible,\u201d the Bachelor Nation alum exclusively told Us Weekly weeks after he [\u2026]\t\t<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Simpson ultimately went through with the show, first singing \u201cPieces of Me\u201d with no issue. As she and her band began to cue up the second song, however, the vocal track for \u201cPieces of Me\u201d began to play again instead. While the song cut out within seconds, fans were quick to point out that Simpson had been lip-syncing.<\/p>\n

Simpson said that moment taught her \u201cthe power of my no\u201d and \u201cthe power of me saying absolutely not.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u201cI feel like it was a humbling moment for me,\u201d she said. \u201cI had the number one song, it was, like, everything was about go, like, somewhere and then it was just, like, woah. The humility of not even understanding what grown a-s people would say about you, awful, awful things.\u201d<\/p>\n

Simpson said she learned how to tune her haters out, finding her strength through the process. She ultimately didn\u2019t have to have surgery thanks to a vocal coach, who she said \u201csaved [her] life.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI think having to find at a young age that strength to be like, \u2018I am good at this and I will keep going, and I will keep fighting,\u2019\u201d Simpson said.<\/p>\n

After her 2004 performance on the NBC variety show, Simpson returned again in October 2005, but she can\u2019t find a trace of it on the internet.<\/p>\n

\u201c\u2019I went back to SNL<\/em> with my second album and I can\u2019t find it anywhere. I\u2019ve searched and searched for that performance,\u201d she said. \u201cI was really nervous when I was on there and I can\u2019t find it anywhere.\u201d<\/p>\n

After Simpson released her debut album, Autobiography<\/em>, in July 2004, she dropped I Am Me<\/em> and Bittersweet<\/em> World<\/em> in 2005 and 2008, respectively. She\u2019s since released the 2012 single \u201cBat for a Heart\u201d but hasn\u2019t added any more music to her resume.<\/p>\n

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