During a tribute for Dolly Parton at last night’s Kennedy Center Honors, singer Jessica Simpson succumbed to a bad case of stage fright after she abruptly ended her rendition of “Nine To Five” with the words “so nervous” before leaving the stage to no applause.

From Associated Press:

She was in tears when she and the other singers in the tribute came back out.

I have a confession to make. Before writing this blog, I really didn’t have much of an idea who Jessica Simspon was.

Sure, I knew she starred on some reality show on a network that catered to those damn kids who were always traipsing across my front lawn with their bad attitudes and loud rock music, but I really didn’t know what she was famous for, who she was married to, or even what she looked like.

In fact, if I was walking down the street with a friend back then and he said, “Hey, look over there. It’s Jessica Simpson.”, I would have probably just turned to him and said, “Oh please, like a black person could ever walk this deep into our neighborhood without being arrested. Save your poor observations for our golf game at the country club.”

Editor’s Note: I decided to cut this post short after thinking about what a joyous time it was for me back then when I didn’t know who Jessica Simpson was. So instead of rambling on about Jessica and her tearful breakdown – which was most likely caused by that notorious heckler Steven Spielberg – I’m just going to bang my head against the wall until I damage the portion of my brain that houses all the information I have on Jessica Ann Simpson from Waco, Texas. I’ll need to be careful though since I believe I may have stored all that information next to that on Britney Spears. And man, how I would hate to lose all that stuff.

UPDATE: Here’s a segment from the always reliable “Inside Edition” which includes clips from her performance Sunday night. And no, I don’t know why she can’t stop touching her stomach.