Despite deciding to end their marriage after eight years together, Ali Wong said that their breakup still hasn’t stopped her and ex-husband Justin Hakuta from remaining “best friends.”

The comedian and the tech entrepreneur first announced their split in April 2022, and a year later, she says that while their romantic relationship may have come to an end, their friendship is stronger than ever. In an interview published on Wednesday, Wong told The Hollywood Reporter, “We’ve been through so much together. It’s a very unconventional divorce.” On the day of her conversation with the outlet, for example, she had just come from playing a game of pickleball with Hakuta, and she said that he will also be joining her on tour this summer as she tries out some new material on the road about what her life has been like since their divorce. The former couple’s two daughters Mari and Nikki will also join them on the road trip.

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The Always Be My Maybe star explained, “I’m still workshopping it, but the bones are there and it came to me very fast. This is the first hour I’m doing since I started where I’m single. I think we’re going to call it the Single Lady tour.” Wong also addressed speculation that her previous comedy special, Don Wong, played a role in the dissolution of her marriage. In the show, she makes several jokes about her relationship, including that she’s envious of single people as she “too, was once free” but “like an idiot, I asked this dude to ask me to go to prison. And now I’m in monogamy jail and I don’t know how to get out.” But Wong said that people are reading a little too much into her jokes, replying, “I can’t help that. Not really.”

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What really surprised the comedian, however, is just how many people cared that they were getting a divorce at all. “I did not expect the announcement to be so widespread, but by far the hardest part about getting divorced was my mother’s reaction,” she explained. “I had told her before that I thought we might get divorced, and she was really upset. She looked me in the eye and asked, ‘Can you just wait until I die?’ She was literally asking me to not live a life for myself. But she’s 82, what do I expect? She hasn’t had her period in 40 years. She’s in the sha-ha-hallows of senior citizenship. But it was still really fucking hard dealing with all her fear of the shame it would bring her.” Wong continued, “But then, what was kind of cool about the announcement was that she didn’t have to tell any of her friends. All of them found out because it made it to a bunch of the Chinese and Vietnamese newspapers—I still can’t believe why on earth they would be interested in me—and they all called her. She died a million deaths in one day and then woke up the next day and was like, ‘I survived.’ She still sees Justin a ton.”

Wong and Hakuta first met in 2010 at a friend’s wedding reception when Hakuta was still a student at Harvard Business School and a Fulbright scholar. They hit it off and four years later in November 2014, the couple wed in San Francisco, welcoming their first daughter a year later. The comedian’s representative confirmed the news of their split at the time, adding, “It’s amicable and they will continue to co-parent lovingly.”

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