Chelsea Handler reflects on her split from Jo Koy - CNN

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Chelsea Handler is opening up about her erstwhile narration with chap comic Jo Koy.

In an occurrence of Brooke Shields’ “Now What?” podcast published Tuesday, Handler said that she genuinely thought she was going to walk the remainder of her beingness with Koy.

“I truly believed that this was my guy. I thought, ‘Oh my god, I won.’ Like I got everything. I person my career, I person respect, I person my family, I person truthful galore friends,” she said. “I person each of these things. And past I thought this was gonna beryllium the idiosyncratic I walk my beingness with.”

Handler said she was adjacent unfastened to the thought of matrimony earlier the 2 parted ways aft astir a twelvemonth together.

“I’m not that hard up to get married, but I was unfastened to the thought of it, and we decidedly discussed it astatine magnitude due to the fact that it was important to him,” she said. “And then, towards the extremity of the relationship, it conscionable became wide that this was not my person.”

She continued: “There were conscionable immoderate behaviors that we couldn’t hold on. It felt to maine similar I would person to wantonness myself, which possibly I would person been good to bash if I were 20 oregon 25, but I wasn’t consenting to bash that. No substance however overmuch I loved this idiosyncratic — and I loved him truthful overmuch — I was not going to wantonness myself,” Handler said. “I americium 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. So that was difficult.”

Handler and Koy archetypal met astir 20 years ago, and helium was a predominant impermanent connected Handler’s erstwhile E! show, “Chelsea Lately.”

They announced they were a mates successful September 2021 and their divided successful July.

The 2 haven’t spoken recently, Handler added.

“There has to beryllium immoderate accountability from him astir what happened due to the fact that it was conscionable ridiculous, and I don’t deliberation we tin person a relationship until there’s immoderate accountability and immoderate work taken,” she concluded.