Hurt by speedy datingIn a recent Elle magazine interview, Jessica said that when ex-husband Nick jumped back into dating after their high-profile breakup, it was not taken easily.

“Oh, it hurt me,” the 26-year-old singer-actress gushed in an interview in the March issue of Elle magazine, on newsstands February 13. “Two or three weeks later? Yeah, I’d say it kind of hurt me.”

These words come despite the fact the she is the one who filed for divorce in December 2005, after three years of marriage.

In the interview, Jessica said that after watching the 2004 romance “The Notebook” on a plane ride home to Texas, she made the decision. “I just figured out the statement,” she says of the movie. “It was about that moment of desperation. I needed to breathe.”

Jessica was asked whether or not she still keeps in touch with her ex, who is dating MTV’s Vanessa Minnillo.

“Mm-hmmm,” she told the magazine. “He’s so much a part of my life, how could I not be? Any guy that’s going to be with me from this day forward has to understand that. You want to help me find a guy?”

While Jessica asked for help in jest, it seems evident that it is not necessary. Thee star has been recently tied with singer-songwriter John Mayer, and in her profile in Elle, the writer noted that he spotted e-mails from John on her computer.

She says she “is so happy right now,” but declined to discuss her love life. “I want to tell you everything, but I have to sew my lips together,” she says.

Asked whether she’s in love, a grinning Jessica plays coy: “I didn’t say yes.”