Jessica Simpson planned to celebrate her twenty-seventh birthday on Tuesday at the Silver Spoon Beach House event space in Malibu, but was scared away by the flickering lights of the paps.

Jess and five friends were reportedly planning a day at the beach, with an accompanying BBQ dinner, but Jess couldn’t deal with the stress of her birthday bash once more than a dozen members of the pap showed up for the party.

“She couldn’t deal with it,” one source said. “She kept saying she didn’t want her friends to go through that. So, they stayed inside and then just left.”