Ali Wong has formally filed for divorce from her estranged husband, Justin Hakuta.
Wong, 41, filed to dissolve her marriage in Beverly Hills on Friday, December 22, in line with courtroom paperwork got by way ofTMZ. She cited “irreconcilable differences” as the cause of their break up and asked joint criminal and bodily custody in their two daughters. (Wong and Hakuta, 41, proportion children Mari, 8, and Nikki, 6.)
In keeping with TMZ, Wong famous in her courtroom submitting that the exes are lately in mediation to get to the bottom of problems referring to spousal give a boost to and splitting property.
Information broke in April 2022 that the Pork megastar and Hakuta had break up after 8 years of marriage. (TMZ reported that the divorce medical doctors record their date of separation in the similar month.)
“I did not expect the announcement to be so widespread, but by far the hardest part about getting divorced was my mother’s reaction,” Wong recalled to The Hollywood Reporter in February. “I had told her before that I thought we might get divorced, and she was really upset.”
The actress persevered: “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 f—king hard dealing with all her fear of the shame it would bring her.”
Since Wong and Hakuta introduced their break up, she added to THR that her mother “still sees” Hakuta “a ton.”
Hakuta, a former tech govt, has even retained his task as Wong’s excursion supervisor throughout her reside comedy gigs.
“We’re really close. We’re really good friends [and] when I say that, I really mean it,” Wong stated on Jimmy Kimmel Reside! in March, noting she could be “fine” if Hakuta met a date whilst they had been touring in combination. “I don’t know, I haven’t thought about that.”
Wong, for her phase, has moved on with fellow comic and actor Invoice Hader. Wong and Hader, 45, in short dated in overdue 2022 ahead of rekindling their romance previous this yr.
“They’re actually perfect for each other,” a supply solely advised Us Weekly in April. “They have a lot in common. They both have kids, they both have warped senses of humor and their chemistry is apparently off the charts.”
Hader stocks 3 daughters along with his ex-wife, Maggie Carey.