Ali Wong reveals how new beau Bill Hader first wooed her
By Ryan General
Ali Wong has opened up about her love life with boyfriend and “Saturday Night Live” alum Bill Hader in a recent stand-up set.
Key points:
- Wong shared the details on her May 12 set at the Wiltern Theatre in Los Angeles, the last day of this year’s Netflix Is a Joke festival.
- Hader‘s persistence, she said, won her over after her divorce.
- The couple went public with their romance in December 2022.
The details:
- Wong and her ex-husband Justin Hakuta announced their separation after eight years of marriage in April 2022.
- The comedian confessed to a packed crowd that she had just signed up for a dating app when Hader reached out to her.
- “I get a phone call from this guy who I met at a dinner party in the past, and he got my number from a mutual friend,” she explained. “He was like, ‘Hey, I just happened to hear the news about your divorce, and I’ve had a crush on you forever. I actually told my best friend years ago that you were my dream girl, and I know it sounds crazy, but I want you to be my girlfriend.’”
- Wong said she paid $25 on the app. “You seem really nice, but I gotta get my money’s worth,” she jokingly told Hader.
- Undeterred, Hader went above and beyond. When Wong flew to Europe for a solo trip, she found flowers waiting for her at every hotel she stayed at.
- The gesture divided her friends. While her girlfriends found it romantic, her male friends were more suspicious.
- “That’s how cheap and lazy men have become,” she said in jest. “When a fellow man commits any act of kindness, any romantic gesture, it must be a symptom of an undiagnosed mental illness.”
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