Overview
- Simmons shares her perspective in a Not Skinny But Not Fat podcast clip released ahead of the Dec. 9 episode, first published by People.
- She says the situation went from “0 to 100” after Aoki met restaurateur Vittorio Assaf in St. Barths in April 2024.
- Simmons notes she knew Assaf previously and says his reputation “probably precedes him.”
- She explains she did not confront her daughter publicly and emphasizes letting her children make their own mistakes under media scrutiny.
- The pairing ended shortly after it became public, with a family source previously telling People it was “never a thing.”