Chelsea Handler announces split with Jo Koy before one-year anniversary: 'It is best for us to take a break'

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Chelsea Handler revealed the end of her relationship with comedian boyfriend Jo Koy on Monday in a video shared to Instagram, which was filmed before they decided to breakup.  "In anticipation of celebrating our first year together, Jo and I recorded this video early, but as many of you have noticed, 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," she shared with her four million followers. "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 one of us." Handler wrote that Koy "blew my heart open with love" and credited him with changing her life experience "forever."  Chelsea Handler announced she broke up with comedian boyfriend Jo Koy. (Getty Images) The pair first met through mutual friends more than 20 years ago, and then worked together on her former E!

late-night show, "Chelsea Lately." "To be loved and adored by @jokoy has been one of the greatest gifts of my life," she continued. "He renewed my faith in men, in love, in being 100% who I am, and I’ve never been more optimistic for the future. "Jo- 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 in the ground." Handler and Koy were rumored to be an item after being spotted at a Los Angeles Dodgers game in August 2021, only for their relationship to go Instagram official later that month.