Jessica Simpson just notched her first No.-1 country album – but she also wants to give herself props having Tony Romo as the love of her life.

“Tony is a great quarterback, but he’s a better boyfriend,” Simpson, 28, told People at a Nina’s Night Out, a benefit for the Rape Crisis Center at the Palms Casino Resort’s Pearl Theatre in Las Vegas on Thursday. “I’m seriously proud of myself for letting him into my life.”

Romo “was my Monday this week,” joked Simpson, in reference to her song about him, “You’re My Sunday,” and the Dallas Cowboys’ huge win over the Philadelphia Eagles on ESPN’s Monday Night Football a few days ago.

The NFL star is also someone else’s hero: He recently stopped to help a couple change their flat tire in Texas Sept. 7.

“Through all the chaos and torment and everything I go through, I can lay in his arms and finally rest,” she added.

Having her cuddled up next to him isn’t always such a relief, admitted Simpson.

“To be my man, you have to put up with a lot,” said the singer. “I toot under the sheets, I spend a lot of money and I can belch the ABC’s.”

On Forgetting Lyrics
During her 70-minute set featuring her album, Do You Know, which debuted at No. 1 on Billboard’s country music chart this week, Simpson forgot the lyrics to one of her best-known pop songs, “With You.”

“I did the same thing on Good Morning America,” said an apologetic Simpson, referring to her tech-challenged TV spot before starting the song over again.

Afterwards, she said, “I’ve been singing that song for about 70 years and I forgot the lyrics. At least you guys knew them.”

Simpson continues her hectic promotional schedule, when she performs this weekend at the Los Angeles County Fair in Pomona, Calif.

“I’ve been to 12 states in the past week,” she said. “I’m exhausted, but it’s worth it. I can’t believe I have the No. 1 album in country right now.”

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Jessica Simpson has good reason to celebrate. The pop star-turned-country crooner’s new album, Do You Know, debuted at the No. 1 spot on Billboard’s Top Country Albums chart. It also secured the No. 4 spot on the all-genre Billboard 200 chart today.

“I’m extremely touched by the overwhelmingly positive response to the album,” says Jessica. “There is so much honesty and raw emotion in there. And, I’m just thrilled that country fans are giving it a chance!”

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Pop star-turned-country singer Jessica Simpson is convinced she’s made the right move by returning to her southern roots and leaving Los Angeles behind – because her fans had forgotten why she was famous.

Simpson left the Hollywood for a life away from the clicking cameras to live in her native Texas and pursue her country music career in Nashville, Tennessee.

She says, “I think people forgot that I actually work. That I don’t just go to Starbucks and pump gas… I’ve tried to stay out of L.A. as much as possible.”

And the singer insists the move has also helped her become more comfortable in her own skin.

She adds, “I think that without paparazzi you can be yourself, because you don’t feel like they’re trying to get the shot like you have gas or something – or like in that very moment you hate everybody.”

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Jessica Simpson has a theory about why she’s been blamed for “jinxing” the Dallas Cowboys: the color pink.

Last year Simpson, 28, was nicknamed “Yoko Romo” by Cowboys fans who believed she’s bad luck to boyfriend Tony Romo’s football performance. On Thursday night, she told David Letterman that she’ll never again wear her pink No.9 jersey to games.

Referring to the “jinx drama”, Jessica said: “I really think it’s because I was wearing a pink No. 9 jersey and not a blue one.”

“If you had been in blue that wouldn’t be a problem?” asked Letterman.

“Well so far I’ve been wearing blue, and they’re doing great,” Jessica answered. “I’ll never wear a pink one again!”

Simpson, who was on the show to promote her new country album Do You Know, additionally made an unintentional double entendre.

“I think Tony always performs well,” she said, defending her quarterback beau’s football prowess. When the audience gasped at the sexual double meaning, the singer made a surprised expression and laughed.

Letterman retorted, “that’s not why I’m here, okay?”

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Jessica Simpson hated promoting her last album, A Public Affair, because none of the bubblegum pop tunes represented how she was feeling at the time.

The singer was still devastated from her marriage split and felt recording upbeat numbers like Push Your Tush and the album’s title track would make the media think she was doing fine – when, in reality, she was heartbroken.

Meanwhile, her ex-husband, Nick Lachey, poured his heart out on his What’s Left of Me album.

Simpson says, “I was extremely hurt, and I felt like people were wanting me to put out a record like Nick had put out. It was an honest record… but, listening to it, I was so sad. That’s why I tried to record stuff to convince people that, no, I’m happy-go-lucky. I found myself in a very weak place when I was promoting A Public Affair and I couldn’t put up with the scrutiny. I tried to make everybody think that I wanted to dance around on roller skates. I’m not a good liar.”

Simpson has since found that country music has helped her “tell my story” – just like pal Willie Nelson told her on the set of their film Dukes of Hazzard.

She adds, “(He said) ‘If you ever want to tell your story, start writing country music.’”

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Jessica Simpson may have been a little bit rock and roll, but with the release of her new album Do You Know, it’s clear she’s also a whole lotta country.

“Country was just something that’s in my bones,” Simpson tells Extra. “It’s in my blood. It’s in my voice. It’s in my heart and I just wanted to pack my stuff up and go to Nashville and write with some of my favorite songwriters.”

Simpson says there’s a song on her new album dedicated to boyfriend Tony Romo, the Dallas Cowboys quarterback whom she credits as being the love of her life.

“”You’re my Sunday” is about Tony,” she says. “He is a place of rest in my life and that’s what the song is about. It’s his favorite song on the record.”

Although many Dallas Cowboys fans blamed Romo’s relationship with Simpson as the reason behind the team’s less than stellar season last year, she declared, “I won’t be wearing the jersey to the game, but I have been there and definitely going to support the Cowboys all the way.”

Simpson hopes that the album will reveal her true self saying, “I just think it’s important for people to know that I’m human. I’m a good person with a good heart and great intentions.I’m a good sister. I’m a good daughter. I’m a good girlfriend.”

As for her public image, Simpson says, “It’s really disheartening in a way how the media can control somebody’s perspective on someone else’s life.It’s really sad how people want to believe the worst. I’m really not as important as people make me out to be.”

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Jessica Simpson’s new career as a country singer is off to a shaky start after audio malfunctions disrupted a live performance in New York on Tuesday.

The former pop star dressed the part in a billowing bright pink dress and cleavage-bearing black top as she clapped along to a track from her debut country album Do You Know, released on Tuesday. But Simpson’s performance grinded to a halt when a technical malfunction prompted her to stop the show.

Shouting to the crowd, she said, “I know this is live TV, but I can’t hear anything,” before counting the band down and restarting the song.

Still, the singer insists performing as a country music artist is a welcome departure from the pressures of being a pop star.

She says, “It’s a natural thing for me. I’ve always been a country girl, so it feels good to be on stage, just being myself.”

Simpson was previously booed by concert-goers at a country music festival in Wisconsin in July, when she debuted her new sound.

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