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Simpson revealed in a November 2023 Instagram post that she decided to quit drinking the day after Halloween in 2017, alongside a photo of her taken on that day.

In the caption, Simpson called the person in the photo “an unrecognizable version of myself,” who “had so much self-discovery to unlock and explore.”

“I knew in this very moment I would allow myself to take back my light, show victory over my internal battle of self-respect, and brave this world with piercing clarity,” she said. “Personally, to do this I needed to stop drinking alcohol because it kept my mind and heart circling in the same direction and quite honestly I was exhausted.”

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“I wanted to feel the pain so I could carry it like a badge of honor,” she continued. “I wanted to live as a leader does and break cycles to advance forward – never looking back with regret and remorse over any choice I have made and would make for the rest of my time here within this beautiful world.”

She went on to call out the “stigma around the word alcoholism or the label of an alcoholic,” adding that she needed to accept the “failure, pain, brokenness, and self sabotage” in her life and understand that “the drinking wasn’t the issue. I was. I didn’t love myself. I didn’t respect my own power. Today I do.”