Ali Wong Admits She & Ex-Husband Had An ‘Unconventional Divorce’: We’re Still ‘Best Friends’

Though Ali Wong‘s marriage to Justin Hakuta is over, that doesn’t mean their emotion is gone. Ali, 40, and Justin, 40, announced their uncoupling successful April 2022, but up of her caller Netflix/A24 drama bid Beef and her upcoming summertime tour, Ali told The Hollywood Reporter that she and her ex-husband are inactive “really, truly close; we’re champion friends. We’ve been done truthful overmuch together. It’s a precise unconventional divorce.”

Ali said that she and Justin played pickleball the greeting earlier she spoke with THR and that Justin – a palmy tech entrepreneur – would question with Ali and their daughters erstwhile she goes connected the roadworthy this June. Ali was famously large with Mari Hakuta (b. 2015) for her Baby Cobra special and large with Nikki Hakuta (b. 2017) successful Hard Knock Wife. In Ali’s 2022 special, Don Wong, Ali discussed her struggles with monogamy, referring to it arsenic a “jail and I don’t cognize however to get out.”

Justin and Ali (Mark Von Holden/Invision/AP/Shutterstock)

Ali volition debut worldly astir her post-divorce dating habits. “I’m inactive workshopping it,” she told THR, “but the bones are there, and it came to maine precise fast. This is the archetypal hr I’m doing since I started, wherever I’m single. I deliberation we’re going to telephone it the Single Lady tour.”

“I did not expect the [divorce] announcement to beryllium truthful widespread, but by acold the hardest portion astir getting divorced was my mother’s reaction,” she says. “I had told her earlier that I thought we mightiness get divorced, and she was truly upset. She looked maine successful the oculus and asked, ‘Can you conscionable hold until I die?’ She was virtually asking maine to not unrecorded a beingness for myself. But she’s 82, what bash I expect? She hasn’t had her play successful 40 years. She’s successful the sha-ha-hallows of elder citizenship. But it was inactive truly fucking hard dealing with each her fearfulness of the shame it would bring her.”

Ali noted that determination was a silver-lining to her divorcement announcement getting truthful overmuch press. Her parent “didn’t person to archer immoderate of her friends. All of them recovered retired due to the fact that it made it to a clump of the Chinese and Vietnamese newspapers — I inactive can’t judge wherefore connected world they would beryllium funny successful me,” Ali told THR, “and they each called her. She died a cardinal deaths successful 1 time and past woke up the adjacent time and was like, ‘I survived. She inactive sees Justin a ton.'”

Justin and Ali (John Salangsang/Shutterstock)

“All of this — my stand-up, Beef, Always Be My Maybe, however I americium with my friends, however they relay a speech I had with them — is ne'er going to beryllium the full truth,” adds Ali. “It is ever going to beryllium an abstraction of truth, and I deliberation that’s precise comforting. I can’t assistance what radical expect. I don’t effort to power what they deliberation oregon instrumentality distant astatine all. That’s not the goal. The extremity is to astonishment them and marque them laughter and marque myself laughter and person fun.”

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