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Speaking on the Broad Ideas With Rachel Bilson & Olivia Allen podcast, Simpson said there was one good takeway from the whole debacle.

“I had done my rehearsal the night before and then I woke up the next day and I couldn’t speak,” she said.

“That day I said, ‘I will not go on, I don’t care. I can’t speak.’ Meanwhile, I’m not saying this. I’m writing it down, because I can’t talk.”

Her label allegedly encouraged her to go on with pre-recorded vocals, which she says she thought was a bad idea.

”It was a humbling moment for me,” she said, adding that she learnt the power of saying “no.”

“I had the No. 1 song and everything was about to go somewhere. And then it was just like, whoa,” Simpson continued.

“The humility of not even understanding what grown-ass people would say about you, grown-ass men, awful awful things. It was so hard to learn how to tune that out, to find my strength, to get up and go again.”