This whole idea of everyone is jealous because we’re so successful and they’re not is just so high school. But leave it to Joe Simpson to pull that excuse out of his pocket whenever things aren’t going his way.

He says that the entire planet wants to watch his family fail. He says that we all take such joy when his two daughters fail. Well part of that’s true, it’s fun to watch a trainwreck before it happens.

Joe said, “We as a family are under a lot of pressure. People want to make us look bad and want us to fail.”

He claims that their family wasn’t concerned when Ashlee got fired from her gig on “Melrose Place” after only being a part of the series for six months.

He added, “It was never a loss. The world says whatever it says. The world, again, always wants to make it look like we’re failures but we’re really just a family that works hard.”

Sure…that wasn’t a failure at all, seeing as how Jessica tweeted basically saying that the show was nothing without her wonderful sister being a part of it.

Now that Ashlee is a success on Broadway, Joe said, “My children look at ups and downs and rise up above it all and remain strong… We’re just normal people, and we always try to be who we say we are.”

Sure, they’re just normal people, alright. He says that when one of them comes home and says that they’ve done well. Any other time, he’s pulling the ‘everone is jealous bit’.

source: JOE SIMPSON BLASTS JEALOUS WORLD – [contact music]