Amy Robach and TJ Holmes Break Silence About Their Ouster from ABC in New Podcast: ‘It’s Been a Hell of a Year’
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Former GMA3 hosts Amy Robach and T.J. Holmes told their side of the story for the first time about their relationship and their firings from ABC News.
It was approximately one year ago when tabloids broke the story that Holmes and Robach were romantically involved with each other as they were both in the process of divorcing their former spouses. After their relationship was outed, the two were benched from their shows until ABC News president Kim Godwin confirmed that their ouster was permanent.
To mark the anniversary of their ABC exit, Holmes and Robach launched their new podcast Amy and T.J., which Robach began by recalling “It’s been a hell of a year.” She went on to admit she was nervous to speak about it “because we haven’t spoken. We haven’t said anything, and other people have had our story; they’ve told our narrative.”
“I shouldn’t say ‘our’; they told a narrative,” Robach revised. “It isn’t our narrative. This is the first time that we actually get to say what happened and where we are today.”
“We are the folks who lost the jobs we love because we love each other,” Holmes described it. He and Robach reflected on the public support they’ve received over the months before the latter explained that they are still together.
Relationships are hard. They’re messy, they’re not perfect. We have fought for love, and I can say I have never been happier. I am with my best friend, I’m not going to get cheesy… We have gone through, I think it’s fair to say, a year of hell. But we have had each other through it all and had a lot of support through our family, through a tight circle of friends and we have hopefully gotten through the really tough stuff, and we have more work to do as all relationships require, but it has been the most beautiful relationship I have ever had in my life.
Speaking about when their relationship was outed, the two objected to the coverage they got at the time for how it portrayed them in the media as adulterers.
“The odd thing is, the day those pictures were taken and the day that article was released, we both at that point were in divorce proceedings,” said Holmes. Robach seconded this by explaining her ex-husband moved out of their house three months before she and Holmes were first photographed together.
The two continued to reflect on how the story unfolded, their attempts to cope with the fallout, and how the news impacted their friends and families.
After Robach said they had a PR statement prepared that was never released, Holmes lamented, “If people would have heard [about the divorces] earlier [then] ‘they’re in a relationship, now they’re dating,’ maybe an eyebrow would have been raised or something, but it wouldn’t have become what it became.”
Listen to the podcast here.
