Ali Wong And Husband Justin Hakuta Are Divorcing After 8 Years of Marriage

Ali Wongand her husband Justin Hakuta are ending their marriage.

After eight years together, the pair have decided to divorce. “It’s amicable and they will continue to co-parent lovingly,” a source tells PEOPLE of the former couple.

Wong’s rep confirmed the news to PEOPLE on Tuesday.

The comedian and actress, 39, first met Hakuta, 39, at a friend’s wedding reception in 2010 and immediately hit it off. At the time, Hakuta was a Fulbright scholar and student at Harvard Business School.

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After a few years of dating, the couple wed in San Franciso on November 27, 2014. The former couple later welcomed two daughters, Mari in 2015 and Nikki in 2017.

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In her 2019 memoir addressed to her daughters, titledDear Girls: Intimate Tales Untold Secrets and Advice for Living Your Best Life,Wong revealed she signed a prenup prior to tying the knot.

As a result, theAlways Be My Maybestar shared she became “more motivated to make my own money because I signed a document specifically outlining how much I couldn’t depend on my husband,” CNBCreported.

“My father always praised ‘the gift of fear,'” she wrote. “And that prenup scared the s— out of me. In the end, being forced to sign that prenup was one of the greatest things that ever happened to me and my career.”

source: people.com