Jessica Simpson turned down lead role in “The Notebook”; tony Romo ruined her career

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In her new tell-all memoir, Jessica Simpson claims that she turned down the lead in an iconic film because it would have required her to do a sex scene.

Simpson revealed that she passed on the chance to play the co-starring role in "The Notebook," according to quotes obtained by Entertainment Tonight.

The film came back to haunt her, however, following the announcement of her divorce from Nick Lachey.

The statement [about the split] went out while I was in the air, but nobody on the plane knew a thing, except that Jessica Simpson was loudly sobbing in first class," wrote Simpson, 39. "Then they announced that the movie we all had to watch was 'The Notebook.' 'Oh God,' I thought. The most romantic movie in the world and I was leaving Nick."

In addition to "The Notebook," Simpson steered clear of other roles featuring intimacy during her relationship with Tony Romo, as he allegedly had asked her to do.

"One of the few parameters he put on the relationship was actually a big one: He didn't want me to do any movies that required an on-camera kiss, which basically ruled out any romantic comedy, the type of movie for which I was most likely to be cast," Simpson claimed in the book.

"I get it, some people can't handle another person making out with their girlfriend -- even for work -- but there were only so many plucky fish-out-of-water stories with no male romantic leads," she continued. "I think it was more about how he would be perceived, than the love scene actually happening. What would people think of him for allowing that to happen?"

Simpson said she felt Romo had a fear of her falling in love on the set of a movie after she had an "emotional affair" with Johnny Knoxville on the set of "The Dukes of Hazzard" while still married to Lachey, 46.