"I want to tell you everything, but I have to sew my lips together," she says. "It's hurt me in the past."

"I feel that with this new privacy of yours, I'm going to wake up one morning, pick up the paper and read . . . " Simpson interjects: "That I'm married! Maybe."

Asked if she's "totally in love right now," Simpson grins and says, "I didn't say yes."

"I let people in on who I am and how I react to my husband," Simpson says. "That's a big deal. Celebrities don't do that. So I think they brought me down just because I stopped talking and because I have not spoken – and will not speak – about my divorce. And I think people feel like I owe them my reality right now."

Meanwhile, Vanessa Minnillo and Nick Lachey had a public blowup - when Vanessa flew into a jealous rage over a Jessica Simpson clone.

Thursday at NYC’s Plumm nightclub, Vanessa reportedly spotted Nick with a buxom blonde beauty - cast in the same mold as his ex-wife - seated on his lap. Getting up to leave, she made the universal sign for “call me�? … and Vanessa went ballistic.

According to Web site TMZ, the MTV host shouted at her man, “What are you doing?�? - followed by “We need to talk!�?