Ali Wong and her husband Justin Hakuta are splitting up after eight years of marriage.
âIt’s amicable and they will continue to co-parent lovingly,” a source told People, who confirmed the news with Wongâs rep on Tuesday.
The star comedian was married to Hakuta, son of Japanese American inventor Ken ‘Dr. Fad’ Hakuta, for eight years, and they have two daughters together. The former couple first met in 2010 at a friendâs wedding reception before tying the knot four years later in November of 2014. Eldest daughter Mari, with whom Wong was pregnant with during her breakout comedy special âBaby Cobra,â was born in 2015, followed by Nikki in 2017.
The story of how Wong and Hakuta came together was often written into Wongâs stand-up routines, with her joking that she had âtrappedâ the Harvard Business School entrepreneur for his earning potential.
âI trapped his ass initially by not kissing him until the fifth date, which is a very unusual move on my part,â she said during her first special. âBut I did it on purpose, because I knew that he was a catch.â
Following the immense success of âBaby Cobra,â Wong later joked in her second special âHard Knock Wifeâ about how their financial circumstances had changed since Hakutaâs family made her sign a prenuptial agreement.
She confirmed as much in her 2019 memoir dedicated to her children, titled, âDear Girls: Intimate Tales, Untold Secrets & Advice for Living Your Best Life.â The prenup was âone of the greatest things that ever happened to me and my career,â she revealed, as it motivated her to earn money on her own.
In her third and most recent comedy special âDon Wong,â Wongâs stand-up routine may have hinted at some problems within their marriage, which she called âmonogamy jail.â
âHe proposed, we got married, we bought a house, had two kids,â she reflected on her relationship. âFast-forward to seven years later, present day, I’m, like, I don’t know why I did that.”