United Kingdom, Feb. 11 -- Chelsea Handler split from Jo Koy because of his "outdated [and] old-fashioned" expectations.

The 49-year-old comedienne split from the Golden Globes host in summer 2022 after almost a year of dating and though she was "happy" and "in love" with her fellow comic, she admitted she would have had to "compromise" too many of her own values to make things work between them.

Speaking on the 'Armchair Expert' podcast, she explained: "I felt like it was a decision between having a relationship and being full-on or choosing myself and my sanity - sanity is an overstatement - but I would have compromised my own value system...

"What I thought was a mature healthy relationship and what he thought was a mature healthy r...