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Nick Lachey Spills His Guts

by Shea on April 20th, 2006

I have to say… I perceive cutie patootie Nick Lachey to be the “good guy” in the whole Nick & Jessica divorce debacle. He’s just so down to earth and so… normal. At least he seems that way. So of course I devoured the article in the latest issue of Rolling Stone. Here’s a taste:

“I don’t pretend to understand Joe,” he continues. “And I can’t speculate about what he did or why he did it or for what purpose. It would be easy for me to blame my divorce on him. That would be convenient. But at the end of the day, Jessica is a grown woman, and she made her own decision.”

As he speaks, his voice falters. He puts down the wineglass and begins to weep. It is a masculine cry. Large, errant tears brusquely wiped away. Over the next two hours, Lachey will cry a half-dozen times. He will also cry alone that night. And the next day. He will cry because he is “really fucked up right now,” and because “it just sucks,” and because he is being forced to let go of all of his “dreams for the future built around Jessica.” But mostly he will cry because it feels good to finally express something real.

“When it first happened, everyone was like, ‘Don’t leave him alone at the house, be with him all the time!’ But I was never suicidal. I just wanted to deal with it on my own.”

Lachey believes he has made progress. And yet.

“It breaks my heart that I couldn’t make Jessica happy,” he mumbles, his chin pressed into his chest. “I wanted to be everything to my wife. I wanted her to look at me with love in her eyes, the way she did at the beginning, and have her feel like I was the most wonderful, awe-inspiring man on the planet. And when that stopped, it was the worst feeling in the world.”

He wipes his face, eyes to nose to chin.

“I’d marry her all over again,” he says softly. “Because I still love her. It would be a lot easier to walk away if I didn’t.”

And then the tears start again.

To read more, click HERE.

See… he’s the good guy. A nice guy. And I wouldn’t mind being his rebound girl.

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