Overview
- Lachey, appearing on Watch What Happens Live on Wednesday, confirmed he and Simpson shared a flight to Hawaii and called the encounter “strangely okay.”
- He said they spent six and a half hours in the same vicinity rather than seated together, and described everyone on board as very cordial and respectful.
- Lachey noted his wife Vanessa and their three children were on the plane, while Simpson sat next to her mother and her estranged husband Eric Johnson was elsewhere with their kids.
- Earlier coverage differed on details, with People and Us Weekly reporting a pleasant hello and TMZ alleging Simpson switched seats, a claim Lachey did not confirm.
- The former Newlyweds stars married in 2002 and divorced in 2006; he wed Vanessa in 2011, and Simpson announced a separation from Johnson in January 2025.