It’s over. After lower than a yr of courting and virtually fifteen years of friendship, Chelsea Handler and Jo Koy have known as it quits.
“It’s with a heavy coronary heart to announce that we’ve determined collectively that it’s best for us to take a break from our relationship proper now,” Handler, 47, wrote by way of Instagram on Monday, July 18, alongside a video that the comic deliberate to submit for the pair’s upcoming one-year anniversary.
The Chelsea host continued, “I do know lots of you had 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.”
The New Jersey native went on to pen an open letter to Koy, 45, expressing how a lot their relationship modified her. “You blew my creativity open, my lust for working exhausting once more, being on the street once more, and also you jogged my memory who I used to be and all the time have been, and my ft have by no means been extra firmly planted on the bottom,” she gushed of her former associate, including that the Washington native modified her “life eternally.”
The TV character concluded her touching tribute by asking folks to proceed to “root for the each of us,” including, “This isn’t an ending however one other starting. It’s a consolation to know that I’m nonetheless in love and love this man the best way the solar loves the moon and the moon loves the solar.”
Handler and Koy started courting in September 2021 — fifteen years after their first assembly.
Throughout an October 2021 episode of her “Expensive Chelsea” podcast, Handler admitted that her emotions for Koy started virtually twenty years prior in 2007 after they labored on her late-night speak present Chelsea Recently, however she “suppressed” them.
“By the best way, who provides a s–t?” the Are You There, Vodka? It’s Me, Chelsea writer stated. “Look the place we are actually. I might’ve ruined it if I had these emotions earlier, in all probability.”
Handler revealed that the 2 had been combative whereas working collectively as a consequence of her lack of ability to specific how she actually felt in regards to the comedy author.
“On reflection that was my model of flirting,” the Are You There, Chelsea? actress advised E! Information on the purple carpet of the Folks’s Selection Awards in December 2021. “I believe I used to be so out of contact with my very own feelings that that was my forex.”
In November 2021, the Ladies Behaving Badly alum revealed that discovering love with the Blended Plate: Chronicles of an All-American Combo author made her imagine it was doable to seek out “The One.”
“For everybody who continues to be in search of their individual, don’t alter who you might be or make your self smaller to seek out them. Be affected person and by no means accept something lower than you deserve,” Handler wrote by way of Instagram on the time. “Your individual is coming and generally — they’ve been standing in entrance of you the entire time.”
Previous to her relationship with Koy, Handler dated TV govt Ted Harbert from 2006 to 2010. She moved on with André Balazs in 2011 however the pair known as it quits two years later. Handler was additionally been linked to rapper 50 Cent in 2010. Koy, for his half, shares son Joseph Herbert Jr. with ex-wife Angie King.
