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Chelsea Handler Tears Up Over "Painful" Jo Koy Split
Chelsea Handler is shedding airy connected her July breakup from Jo Koy.
During an quality connected Brooke Shields' Now What? podcast, the comedian revealed that she felt the 2 didn't align connected immoderate important aspects.
"There were conscionable immoderate behaviors that we couldn't hold on, and it felt to maine similar I would person to wantonness myself—which possibly I would person been OK to bash if I were 20 oregon 25—but I wasn't consenting to bash that," the 47-year-old explained connected the Dec. 27 episode, per Entertainment Tonight. "No substance however overmuch I loved this person, and I loved him truthful much, I was not going to wantonness myself."
Chelsea continued, "I was like, 'I'm not going to alteration this, I'm not going to alteration the mode that I behave successful bid to marque you consciousness much comfortable. I'm not doing that.' And I had to locomotion distant from thing that I truly believed was gonna beryllium a everlastingly relationship, and truthful that was difficult."
Though she said she and Jo even tried therapy and "any avenue I could deliberation of" to effort and marque their narration work, she yet realized their efforts were "futile."
While Chelsea didn't uncover precisely what the two disagreed on, she cryptically admitted "walking distant from him was 1 of the astir hard things that I ever had to do."
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Chelsea and Jo, 51, often look connected Chelsea Lately, which ran from 2007 to 2014. Their narration grew from platonic to romantic during the pandemic. "When helium was leaving, I was like, 'That's a bummer,'" the E! News screen star exclusively shared. "Or if I didn't perceive from him for a mates of days, I was like, 'Where's Jo Koy? He's usually up my ass.' And past I started to realize, 'Oh, he's not annoying me.'"
Over the summer, however, Chelsea announced their split ahead of their one-year anniversary.
"To beryllium loved and adored by @jokoy has been 1 of the top gifts of my life," she wrote successful July. "He renewed my religion successful men, successful love, successful being 100% who I am, and I've ne'er been much optimistic for the future. Jo- you blew my creativity open, my lust for moving hard again, being connected the roadworthy again, and you reminded maine who I was and ever person been, and my feet person ne'er been much firmly planted successful the ground."
E! News returns Tuesday, Jan. 3, astatine 11:30 p.m., lone connected E!.
