I knew that people were going to talk about it, I knew it was embarrassing, and I knew it was a big deal. But did I think that it was going to be this thing that followed me for, you know, the next years to come? I guarantee you, 25 years from now, I'll be known as the girl that lip synced on 'SNL.' But, you know, it was a weird thing. Not fun.

After her departure from Melrose Place Simpson reprised her role in the Broadway musical production of Chicago. Geffen Records chairman Ron Fair said in December 2006 that working on Simpson's next album would be "very tricky" because of press scrutiny and "prejudices" but that Geffen would work with her to overcome that "because Ashlee Simpson deserves to be heard and Ashlee Simpson deserves a shot. In a September 2007 interview her father Joe Simpson said of the surgery: "There was a real problem with her breathing and that was cured".

The album was released after the show's first season and went to the top of the album chart. Ashlee Nicole Simpson (born October 3 1984) is an American singer-songwriter and actress.