IF YOU HAVE TEARS, PREPARE TO SHED THEM NOW

Nobody knows the troubles Ashlee Simpson has seen this year... oh, hang about, we all do, don't we? Now she's taken to begging the audience for sympathy for her plight, whining to a bunch of people who'd paid good money to see her in Chicago:

"I've had a tough year. But, I've learned a lot of lessons and the most important is that I don't have to be perfect"



The world as a whole is hoping that by this time next year she might have picked up on the other half of that lesson - "so long as you're halfway decent..."

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