Jessica Simpson had a shocking response when she met the woman who sexually abused her as a child

“I would say about eight years ago I confronted her,” Simpson told Schwarzenegger. “I went over to her and said, ‘I know you know what was going on, and I know you were being abused,’ ‘because she was being abused by an older man … he was always home too, he never touched me, but I would abuse her and then she would come to me and do things to me. And so, in many ways, I felt bad for her and was allowing the abuse to occur. “

Empathizing with her abuser’s abusive experiences is already amazingly compassionate, but Simpson went even further, urging the woman to seek the same type of treatment that she herself had found helpful and, most surprising of all, offering her forgiveness.

“I said to him at the time, ‘I know you have a lot to deal with’ and I said I think you should probably talk to someone and find a way to understand those moments and forgive and heal from them. Those moments, “said Simpson.” And “I just want you to know that I forgive you and that I really don’t care about being around you as much or ever again, but I do want you to know that I know what happened between us and me.” live in denial about it. “