Chelsea Handler and Jo Koy Split After Less Than 1 Year of Dating: ‘Please Continue to Root for the Both of Us’

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It’s over. After less than a year of dating and almost fifteen years of friendship, Chelsea Handler and Jo Koy have called it quits. “It is with a heavy heart to announce that we have decided together that it is best for us to take a break from our relationship right now,” Handler, 47, wrote via Instagram on Monday, July 18, alongside a video that the comedian planned to post for the pair’s upcoming one-year anniversary.

The Chelsea host continued, “I know many of you were invested in our love, and I wanted to express to you how much that meant to both of us.

How much it still means. And how much I now believe in love for each of us.”The New Jersey native went on to pen an open letter to Koy, 45, expressing how much their relationship changed her. “You blew my creativity open, my lust for working hard again, being on the road again, and you reminded me who I was and always have been, and my feet have never been more firmly planted on the ground,” she gushed of her former partner, adding that the Washington native changed her “life forever.” The TV personality concluded her touching tribute by asking people to continue to “root for the both of us,” adding, “This is not an ending but another beginning.

It is a comfort to know that I am still in love and love this man the way the sun loves the moon and the moon loves the sun.”Handler and Koy began dating in September 2021 — fifteen years after their first meeting.During an October 2021 episode of her “Dear Chelsea” podcast, Handler admitted that her feelings for Koy began almost two decades prior in 2007 when they worked on her late-night talk show Chelsea Lately, but she “suppressed” them. “By the way, who gives a s–t?” the Are You There, Vodka?