Ali Wong submitted her Justin Hakuta divorce earlier this year.
But you won’t read about the split in any of the scandal-obsessed tabloids.
That’s because Ali and Justin have managed to maintain their friendship and healthy co-parenting relationship in the months since their split.
Ali Wong explains her ‘unconventional’ divorce
Ali’s latest stand-up special just dropped Netflixand the material sparked renewed interest in her amicable split with Justin.
“We have been through so much together. It’s an unconventional divorce,” Ali explained to Vanity Fair in March.
She went on to tell the outlet that she planned to use the special to explore her divorce and her feelings about reentering the dating world.
“I’m still working on it, but the bones are there and it came to me really quickly,” Ali said at the time.
“This is the first hour I’ve been doing since I started where I’m single. I think we’ll call it the Single Lady tour.”
The cost of comedy
Ali added that he feels the material in his latest special may have hastened the end of his eight-year marriage.
At that time, she joked that “she was also free once”, but “like an idiot, I asked this guy to ask me to go to prison. And now I’m in the prison of monogamy and I don’t know how to get out.”
Ali explained that people are reading too much into his jokes, adding, “I can’t help it. In truth.”
Breaking the news
While her divorce may have been smoother than most, Ali admits there were some difficult moments.
“I didn’t expect the announcement to be so widespread, but by far the hardest part of the divorce was my mother’s reaction,” she explained.
“I had already told her that I thought we might get a divorce, and she was very upset. She looked me in the eyes and asked, ‘Can you wait until I die?’ She was literally asking me not to live a life for myself. But she’s 82, what do I expect?”
The happiest of endings
But despite the challenges of the past year, Ali appears to be in a very good place these days.
She recently won two Emmy for his work on the acclaimed Netflix series Beef. And she took the opportunity to express her gratitude to Justin.
“I really need to thank my children’s father and my best friend, Justin, for all of their love and support,” Ali said in your acceptance speech. “It’s because of you that I can be a working mother.”
These days, Ali is dating a fellow comedian Bill Hader.
Insiders say the relationship is serious, but both parties are in favor of moving forward slowly — which makes sense.
After all, Ali and Bill have children from previous marriages. And clearly, neither wants to do anything that might jeopardize their friendly relations with their previous partners.