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Ali Wong Got Very Candid About Her Divorce From Justin Hakuta — And How Telling Her Mom Was The Hardest Part
Ali Wong Got Very Candid About Her Divorce From Justin Hakuta — And How Telling Her Mom Was The Hardest Part,"I had told [my mother] 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?'"

Ali Wong Got Very Candid About Her Divorce From Justin Hakuta — And How Telling Her Mom Was The Hardest Part

Almost one year after announcing her porce from Justin Hakuta, Ali Wong reflected on their current relationship, coparenting their two daughters (now 5 and 7), and her first dramatic role in A24’s upcoming dark comedy series, Beef.

Netflix / Via youtube.comBecause she performs at night, the family goes “on adventures” during the day, with Ali and Justin taking their daughters to see museums or gardens or family friends. “Taking kids on the road is so beautiful. It’s the opposite of film and television, where I’m just gone all day. It’s a really fun family adventure,” she said.  

While her porce and subsequent co-parenting with Justin have been amicable, Ali revealed that telling her 82-year-old mother didn’t go as smoothly. “By far the hardest part about getting porced was my mother’s reaction.”

“I had told her before that I thought we might get porced, 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,” Ali said. “It was still really fucking hard dealing with all her fear of the shame it would bring her.”

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However, because the announcement of her porce was so widespread — which Ali hadn’t expected — her mother didn’t actually have to inform any of her friends about it. Instead, they found out in Chinese and Vietnamese newspapers. “They all called her,” Ali said. “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.”

Now, Ali is focusing on promoting Beef, which “follows the aftermath of a road rage incident between two strangers.” Steven Yeun plays one stranger, and Ali plays the other: a self-made entrepreneur, wife, and mother who is crumbling under the pressure of being the household breadwinner.

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“For me — and I’ll leave it up for interpretation what this means — it was a way to say what I’ve been wanting to say about relationships and being a working mom that I haven’t found a way to talk about on stage,” Ali said of the role.

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Beef will be released on Netflix on April 6, and Ali just watched the first two episodes with her ex-husband, who told her after, “Ali, it’s really good.”

Read Ali’s whole interview with the Hollywood Reporter here.