Chelsea Handler and Jo Koy. BauerGriffin/INSTARimages.com/Cowl Photos; Shutterstock
Over it. Chelsea Handler revealed she is now not eager about discussing her cut up from Jo Koy after beforehand being candid about her journey.
Throughout an look on the “Name Her Daddy” podcast, which was revealed on Wednesday, January 25, the comic, 47, mentioned how her Netflix particular, Chelsea Handler: Revolution, has change into one in every of her “favourite moments” professionally after Koy, 51, helped behind the scenes.
“I bought to share it with any person that I used to be head over heels in love with. It’s tremendous candy,” she defined in regards to the December 2022 launch, which her ex-boyfriend directed. “It’s most likely the sweetest factor that I’ve ever performed. I’m not a really candy, romantic individual. I’m candy.”
Handler, nevertheless, admitted she now not desires to publicly deal with her relationship with Koy. “I’m not selling a breakup from six months in the past,” she continued. “I’m right here to speak about all the opposite issues I’m doing. And I perceive persons are but it surely’s identical to, it’s run out of fuel.”
The previous couple first sparked romance rumors in June 2021 when eagle-eyed followers noticed Handler and Koy hanging out extra. On the time, the New Jersey native took to social media to gush about how a particular somebody was including happiness to her life.
“Simply sitting right here in Mallorca desirous about how grateful I’m to have so many individuals that I like in my life, to dwell the life I do and to be occurring tour doing what I like. And that I’m lastly in love, with the most effective sort of man there may be.” she captioned a photograph of herself through Instagram in September 2021. “There’s hope for everybody! That sort of stuff.”
Chelsea Handler and Jo Koy. Matt Baron/Shutterstock
That very same month, the pair made their relationship Instagram official. Forward of their one-year anniversary, Handler confirmed their breakup.
“It’s with a heavy coronary heart to announce that we’ve got determined collectively that it’s best for us to take a break from our relationship proper now,” she defined in a pre-recorded video, which was posted in July 2022. “I do know lots of you have been invested in our love, and I needed to specific to you the way a lot that meant to each of us. How a lot it nonetheless means. And the way a lot I now imagine in love for every of us.”
Since their breakup, the Chelsea Recently alum has mirrored on what led to them parting methods.
“There have been just a few behaviors that we couldn’t agree on, and it felt to me like I must abandon myself — which perhaps I’d have been OK to do if I have been 20 or 25 — however I wasn’t prepared to do this,” she detailed on Brooke Shields‘ “Now What?” podcast final month. “Irrespective of how a lot I cherished this individual, and I cherished him a lot, I used to be not going to desert myself. I used to be like, ‘I’m not going to vary this, I’m not going to vary the way in which that I behave with a view to make you’re feeling extra snug. I’m not doing that.’ And I needed to stroll away from one thing that I actually believed was gonna be a perpetually relationship, and in order that was tough.”
In line with Handler, the duo tried {couples} remedy earlier than in the end pulling the plug. “Strolling away from him was probably the most tough issues that I ever needed to do. There needs to be some accountability … from him about what occurred as a result of it was simply ridiculous, and I don’t suppose we will have a friendship till there’s some accountability and a few duty taken,” she defined. “We had a extremely nice friendship, and I’d like to have that once more, however and not using a couple steps in the appropriate route, I don’t see that occuring.”
