Renowned comedian and TV host Chelsea Handler recently revealed the reason why she and her former boyfriend Jo Koy broke up. Handler and Koy announced their relationship to their fans in 2021. They were friends before entering a romantic relationship and attended numerous events together. However, in July 2022, Handler made a post on Instagram disclosing that she and Koy had decided to part ways.
What did Chelsea Handler say about Jo Koy?
Chelsea Handler recently appeared on The Armchair Expert hosted by Dax Shepherd where she talked about her separation from comedian Jo Koy.
While Handler had not revealed many details about their break up in the past, she explained to Shepherd the root cause behind the two parting ways. She revealed Jo Koy and she broke up as she did not want to compromise her “own value system.”
She told Shepherd, “I felt like it was a decision between having a relationship and being full-on or choosing myself and my sanity — sanity is an overstatement — but I would have compromised my own value system.” The television host further stated how she and Koy had a different perspective regarding a “mature healthy relationship.” Handler disclosed that she feared she would have to “compromise everything I stand for” in the relationship, thus, she decided to separate from Koy.
Handler added, “We had a couple of instances where it was obvious that we had different ideas about togetherness and the amount of time we would spend together and the expectations of me as his girlfriend, which to me were very outdated, old-fashioned and not going to work.” Furthermore, despite breaking up with Koy, Chelsea Handler looked back at her relationship with him in a healthy way.
In July 2022, Handler shared a clip of her and Koy for their one-year anniversary and announced the breakup.
