“I woke up and I couldn’t speak.”
Ashlee Simpson reflected on her 2004SNLlip-syncing fail.
I didnt know what to do so I thought Id do a hoedown.

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She laterclarifiedthat the lip-syncing was due to her losing her voice, but her career trajectory was undeniably changed.
“I’m losing my fucking voice, what am I going to do?”
she recalled of the night before her scheduled performance.

“The next morning I woke up and I couldn’t speak.
I don’t care, I can’t speak.'”
“It was a humbling moment for me.

I had the number one song, everything was about to go somewhere.
Ashlee credited a vocal coach with helping her work through the nodes.
Ashlee was subsequently “nervous” to go back toSNLin later years.

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