Chelsea Handler Reveals Reason She Broke Up With Jo Koy: 'I Have To Choose Myself'

Chelsea Handler is opening up about her split from Jo Koy.

In case you haven’t been following, news broke Monday that the comedian couple had decided to go their separate ways despite their beautiful connection and history. While they seemingly left on great terms, they didn’t provide a specific reason for their breakup. And these things are never as clean as “conscious uncoupling” type statements would have you believe.

Well, the former Chelsea Lately host has now opened up on the We Can Do Hard Things with Glennon Doyle podcast Thursday, and provided some insight as to where things went wrong, starting off by expressing:

It’s great that she’s looking back so fondly and finding positive relationship takeaways. And she definitely did learn how to demonstrate her love publicly — her Instagram breakup post was one of the sweetest things we’ve ever seen! And about the post in question, she revealed that she believed Jo “needed to hear those things, and I really thought I needed to say them.” Absolutely. It’s always better to leave off on a good note.

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She continued:

So it seems like while the Easter Sunday star offered Chelsea a lot of love, he maybe wasn’t up to par with her newfound openness… The After Lately alum added that she was “willing to do so much bending,” but ultimately reached “a line,” later admitting:

Boundaries are key in any relationship, even if they’re hard to set because of the love you have for that person!

But what was the dealbreaker??

The Life Will Be The Death of Me author later explained how she had worked through a lot of her traumas through therapy and meditation — but insinuated that her ex wasn’t