Ashlee Simpson was horrified when reports spread suggesting The Cure star
was working with her on her new album - because she didn't want her goth-rock
hero to think she'd started the rumor.
The pop star, 22, admits she was "embarrassed" when she first
heard the false rumor, and is now keen to make sure everyone knows it
wasn't true.
She says, "That was never true. I was like, 'Oh my God, that is so
not true and so embarrassing.' I am a huge fan, but would never expect to
write with Robert Smith from the Cure.
"I mean, that would be a dream, but nothing that I would ever say.
I was dying when I read that. I was like, 'No! He's gonna think I'm
crazy.'"