Chelsea Handler Opens Up About ‘Painful’ Jo Koy Split: ‘You Can’t Change a Person Intrinsically’

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Putting herself first. Chelsea Handler is opening up about her split from Jo Koy days after confirming their breakup.“It’s nice to bend for people.

It’s nice to learn how to compromise. It’s nice to learn how to demonstrate my love publicly. I believe Jo needed that,” Handler, 47, said during a Wednesday, July 20, appearance on the “We Can Do Hard Things with Glennon Doyle” podcast. “I was so inspired by us, but Jo didn’t crack me open.

My psychiatrist cracked me open, and then I was open, and then I was able to bend for somebody. But you can’t change somebody intrinsically.”She added: “I feel, you know, optimistic about the future now.

I’ve changed so much and my love was so big that it just blew me open. And as painful as the ending of something like that is, I’m so well-versed in therapy and understanding that every door shutting is a new beginning and I do believe it.”The former Chelsea Lately host and the Easter Sunday star, 51, dated for nearly one year before calling it quits.