Netflix has confirmed a tell-all film about her life. Here is who is making it, what it covers, and the comeback it ends on.
Netflix confirmed the documentary this week. Simpson is still filming it, and the finished film is expected to arrive on the service in 2027.
Joe Pearlman directs. He made Netflix's Robbie Williams series and Lewis Capaldi: How I'm Feeling Now, both built out of years of private footage.
Gunpowder & Sky produces, with Van Toffler aboard. He ran MTV Networks in the era when the channel aired Newlyweds and made Simpson inescapable.
Born in Abilene in 1980, she signed to Columbia Records at 17. Debut album Sweet Kisses landed in 1999 and sold two million copies in the US.
She married Nick Lachey in 2002. MTV's Newlyweds ran from 2003 to 2005, turned her into a household name, and pinned a ditzy label on her for years.
In This Skin sold three million US copies after its 2003 release. Two years later she made her film debut as Daisy Duke in The Dukes of Hazzard.
The Jessica Simpson Collection launched in 2005. By 2014 it was turning over roughly $1 billion a year across 34 different product categories.
Her 2020 memoir was a bestseller. She wrote about childhood trauma and her drinking, and took back a story other people had been telling for her.
Nashville Canyon, Pt. 1 arrived in March 2025, her first original music in 15 years. Pt. 2 followed that September, after she announced her separation.
Cameras are still rolling, so there is no dated premiere yet. Netflix has the film slated for sometime in 2027.