Chelsea Handler Says She Had 'No Choice' But To Break Up With Jo Koy - Over THIS!

Chelsea Handler felt she had “no choice” but to cut things off with Jo Koy… And the reason may surprise you!

During an interview on Dax Shepard’s Armchair Expert podcast on Monday, the TV personality opened up about her relationship with the stand-up comedian and how difficult a decision it was to split in 2022:

“I don’t want to throw anybody under the bus that I loved at one point, and I did really love him, I did not want to break up with him when we broke up. I did not want to, but I felt like I had no choice. 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.”

Wow, that sounds pretty major! And not something you can really compromise on! So what exactly was it that was such a red flag for Chelsea?? Well, she explained:

“What I thought was a mature, healthy relationship, and what he thought was a mature, healthy relationship were two different things. And I would have had to compromise, like, everything I stand for, and I just wasn’t willing to do that. It became clear that that was going to be, like, you know, we had a couple of instances where it was obvious that we had different ideas about togetherness, and the amount of time that we would spend together, and the expectations of me as his girlfriend, which to me were very outdated, old-fashioned, and not going to work.”

Ahhh… Jo is just an old-fashioned type of guy with old-fashioned expectations. The After Lately alum didn’t go into specifics, but when you snag a woman like Chelsea, you should go in knowing she’s anything but old-fashioned!

While it may have been a difficult breakup, the I’ll Have What She’s Having author still managed to take something from it:

“The biggest takeaway from that relationship was that I was able to be in love in a vulnerable, mature, healthy way, and that when I realized it wasn’t going to work out, I was able to end it in a healthy, mature way, and not divulge all of the stuff and the ugliness that may have happened in between because I didn’t want to focus on that. I knew then that I’m capable of accepting love, that I’m capable of being in love and being vulnerable in that way, and it made me want more of it.”

She continued:

“So that was a huge takeaway and it was like, ‘Oh, this is good.’ And I didn’t for one second doubt any of my decision-making. And I want to say … he got me at a point in my life — because obviously I had known him for many years earlier because of Chelsea Lately — he got me at a point in my life where I needed to be reminded of my strength and my power and who I am, and he re-instilled that in me because I had kind of lost interest in my work, and the job.”

Everything is a lesson, right? We’re so glad Chelsea didn’t compromise her values to please someone else! Even if he did help her out of a dark place! Watch more from her interview (below):