Overview
- Lachey, appearing on Watch What Happens Live on Wednesday, confirmed he encountered ex-wife Jessica Simpson and called it “strangely okay.”
- He said they spent about six and a half hours in the same vicinity on a flight to Hawaii in April and that everyone was respectful.
- Lachey traveled with wife Vanessa and their three children, while Simpson sat next to her mother as Eric Johnson and the kids were seated elsewhere.
- He noted it was their first in-person contact in roughly 20 years since their 2006 divorce after their MTV Newlyweds era.
- His comments clarify earlier, conflicting reports that ranged from claims of seat switching to accounts of a brief, cordial hello.