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Dana Edelson/NBCU Photo BankIn October 2004, Ashlee Simpson s music career was derailed after she was caught lip-syncing on an episode of Saturday Night Live. Looking back on the incident during a podcast interview, she says she should have stuck to her guns and refused to perform that night.While appearing on Broad Ideas with Rachel Bilson and Olivia Allen, Ashlee reveals that the day of the performance, she woke up unable to speak because of nodules on her vocal cords. She wrote a note to the SNL folks because she couldn t talk explaining the situation and insisting, "I will not go on. I don t care."But, she claims, she was told to perform to prerecorded vocals. She warned SNL, "My band has never practiced this, this is not going to go well. I can’t do this.” But she did it anyway. Sure enough, when she started her second song, the vocal track from "Pieces of Me" started playing by accident, exposing her lip-syncing. Ashlee di
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In October 2004, Ashlee Simpson's music career was derailed after she was caught lip-syncing on an episode of Saturday Night Live. Looking back on the incident