Ali Wong says she's 'best friends' with her ex-husband: 'It's an unconventional divorce'

Comedian Ali Wong said precocious that she and ex-husband Justin Hakuta are "best friends" pursuing their determination to divorce astir a twelvemonth ago. 

"We’re really, really close; we’re champion friends," Wong, 40, told The Hollywood Reporter successful an question and reply published Wednesday, adding that nan 2 had played pickleball together that morning. "We’ve been done truthful overmuch together. It’s a very unconventional divorce." 

Hakuta, a tech entrepreneur, will besides travel Wong and their young daughters connected her next stand-up tour successful which she plans to show jokes astir her making love life now, according to nan outlet. 

"I’m still workshopping it, but nan bones are there, and it came to maine very fast," she said. "This is nan first hr I’m doing since I started wherever I’m single. I deliberation we’re going to telephone it nan Single Lady tour."

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Justin Hakuta, left, and Ali Wong are "best friends" aft divorcing past year, nan comedian said.  (Photo by Rob Latour/Variety/Penske Media via Getty Images)

In her 2022 Netflix drama typical "Don Wong" that premiered 2 months earlier their divorcement announcement, Wong made jokes astir wanting to cheat connected her hubby and return to nan making love scene. 

The erstwhile mates were joined for 8 years aft gathering astatine a friend’s wedding reception successful 2010. 

The "Always Be My Maybe" prima said her 82-year-old mother had a difficult clip pinch nan divorcement and astatine first asked Wong if she could hold until her mom died to extremity her marriage. 

Justin Hakuta, a tech entrepreneur, will besides travel Ali Wong and their young daughters connected her adjacent stand-up circuit successful which she plans to show jokes astir her making love life now. (Photo by Rick Kern/WireImage)

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"I did not expect nan announcement to beryllium truthful wide [in nan news], but by acold nan hardest portion astir getting divided was my mother’s reaction," Wong explained. "I had told her earlier that I thought we mightiness get divorced, and she was really upset. She looked maine successful nan oculus and asked, ‘Can you conscionable hold until I die?’ She was virtually asking maine to not unrecorded a life for myself. But she’s 82, what do I expect? She hasn’t had her play successful 40 years. She’s successful nan sha-ha-hallows of elder citizenship. But it was still really f---ing difficult dealing pinch each her fearfulness of nan shame it would bring her." 

Ali Wong, right, and Justin Hakuta joined successful 2014 and divided past year. They person 2 daughters.  (Getty Images)

The "Beef" character said because location was truthful overmuch news sum astir her divorcement announcement, her mother didn’t person to show immoderate of her friends. 

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"They each called her," she said. "She died a cardinal deaths successful 1 time and past woke up nan adjacent time and was like, ‘I survived.’ She still sees Justin a ton."