Amy Robach and T.J. Holmes had “press launches prepared to go” simply hours after their months-long affair was exposed in November 2022 — however eventually they chose not to publish them in hopes it would assist them keep their tasks.
Throughout Wednesday’s episode oftheir “Amy & & T.J. Podcast,” a fan asked the couple why they “both didn’t speak up immediately” and “go hard at the accusations right from the start” if they are now declaring there was no cheating.
“What we were attempting to do was keep our tasks,” Robach responded, keeping in mind that they had actually each composed news release simply hours after the news broke.
Regardless of being “briefly removed the air to let things cool off,” the set was still “enthusiastic” for the whole six-week period that they would “be returning to work.”
“Our hearts, our guts, our minds, whatever about us wished to speak up however once we didn’t speak up those preliminary very first couple of days … at what point do you then? It got actually difficult.”
Robach– who kept in mind that she has “never ever had to do press on [herself]– confessed that is might “have actually been much better if we had [released the statements]”
Holmes really pulled up a “draft” of his declaration, which has actually been in his e-mail considering that the “precise day that the photos were launched.”
“This is so wild, I’m reading it. 2 various declarations we chose not to launch a declaration together. Rather it would be 2 separates. She would have hers and I would have mine.”
He then checked out Robach’s declaration initially, “My divorce is almost settled after we chose to separate. T.J. and I have actually been pals for many years, and our relationship has actually developed just in current weeks. I request for personal privacy for my household as we continue to recover.”
Under her declaration was his own, which checked out, “After a month-long separation, I’m in the last of my divorce, a procedure that has actually been hard which my household– for their sake had actually wished to keep personal. I have actually leaned on my closest pal throughout this uncomfortable stretch and extremely just recently, that relationship ended up being more. Out of regard for my household, I am asking for personal privacy at this time.”
Regardless of both being “prepared to go” ahead with the declarations, individuals around them encouraged them not to speak up.
They thought remaining quiet would eventually assist them keep their tasks, the lovebirds eventually parted methods with ABC in late January 2023 — practically 2 months after pictures of them getting handsy outed their love.
At the time, Robach was still lawfully wed to star Andrew Shue while Holmes was wed to Marilee Fiebig.
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Robach and Shue had actually supposedly been separated for months already.
While Holmes declared in his declaration that he and Fiebig were “in the last of [their] divorce” at the time, he did not in fact submit the documents till completion of December.
He did claim throughout a previous podcast episode that the set had actually been living apart because the summer season of 2022
Sources informed Page Six at the time that Fiebig was “blindsided”by her then-husband’s supposed affair with his on-air associate and was still attempting to make their marital relationship work.
All celebrations have given that settled their particular divorces and– in a stunning turn of occasions– Fiebig and Shue began dating not long after.
Page Six broke the news previously this month that the not likely duo bonded over their shared distressing experience and have actually been dating for about 6 months.
“It developed into something else, and they’re linked over their worths. It’s larger than the affair now,” one source informed us.
“They’re not sad and unfortunate,” stated the expert of Shue and Fiebig. “Everyone has actually proceeded.”