Ashlee Simpson-Ross—then just Ashlee Simpson—infamously became the first artist to walk out of a Saturday Night Live musical performance in 2004, when she was 20. Now 40, the singer is looking back on that incident, and says "the bullying was insane" afterward, People reports. For her second song on the show, she was supposed to perform "Autobiography." Instead, "Pieces of Me" started playing, with her voice singing the words before she'd actually brought the mic to her mouth to begin. Flustered, she ultimately left the stage as her band continued playing before the show cut to commercial; she later said she'd been forced to lip sync because she'd had an acid reflux flare-up. She went back on the show the following season, Deadline reports.
On the podcast Pod Meets World starring Boy Meets World alums Rider Strong, Danielle Fishel, and Will Friedle, Simpson-Ross said she felt she had to justify herself: "Then my whole life, I had to tell people, 'Oh, but I perform every night.' My fans know. I had to know that in my heart." She noted "it's a different era" now, and in some ways, public reaction to celebrity mistakes has shifted—"but also it hasn't in some ways," she said. "I think it's different now. For us, we had the magazines and this. Now everything's kinda more fleeting." Whereas mistakes like hers felt like they'd be on a person's "shoulders forever," she noted of the current era, "And I think now everything is, like, a little bit more fleeting and fast."
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