Comedian Ali Wong Files For Divorce From Justin Hakuta

Comedian Ali Wong has officially filed for divorce from her husband of eight years, Justin Hakuta. The two separated on April 10, 2022, according to legal docs obtained by The Blast.

Wong is demanding joint custody of their two daughters Mari, 8, and Nikki, 5.

As for spousal support, separate and community property, both Wong and Hakuta "are in mediation and intend to resolve all support issues by written stipulation." In other words, they are expected to come to a mutual decision and agreement regarding their personal and joint properties.

Ali Wong Jokes About Marriage

Prior to the separation from her husband, comedian and actress Ali Wong joked about how to keep your marriage long-lasting. “Your wife gonna boss you around. And you would know that if you watched 'House Hunters,'" she said before explaining that 'House Hunters' is a show on HGTV "where a couple pretends that there’s a decision to be made together."

"And they go on this fake-a-- journey looking at three different houses, and the audience is meant to be left in suspense. Oh, which house are they going to choose? It’s whichever one Barbara wanted in the first place, OK!? And Barbara, who lives in Boise, Idaho, or wherever the fu-- these HGTV shows are filmed where houses cost $5,000 an acre," she quipped.

"Barbara, she don’t got money, power, or respect, but Barbara is a woman," she said adding, "and all women are very good at being extremely unpleasant and holding your happiness and self-esteem hostage until we get what we f---ing deserve!"

Plus, in her Netflix comedy special, Wong joked about her marriage (before the separation), even admitting she's envious of single people as she "too, was once free" but "like an idiot, I asked this dude to ask me to go to prison. And now I'm in monogamy jail and I don't know how to get out."

Inside Ali Wong's Marriage

Prior to the legal filing, Wong spoke to The Hollywood Reporter on how the two “have been through so much together. It's a very unconventional divorce.”

In regard to what her life has been like since their divorce, she admitted, “I'm still workshopping it, but the bones are there and it came to me very fast. This is the first hour I'm doing since I started where I'm single. I think we're going to call it the Single Lady tour.”

But one of the biggest surprises throughout this process was just how many people cared about their marriage.

“I did not expect the announcement to be so widespread, but by far the hardest part about getting divorced was my mother's reaction,” she told the outlet. “I had told her before that I thought we might get divorced, and she was really upset. She looked me in the eye and asked, ‘Can you just wait until I die?’ She was literally asking me to not live a life for myself. But she's 82, what do I expect? She hasn't had her period in 40 years. She's in the sha-ha-hallows of senior citizenship. But it was still really fucking hard dealing with all her fear of the shame it would bring her.”

Wong continued, “But then, what was kind of cool about the announcement was that she didn't have to tell any of her friends. All of them found out because it made it to a bunch of the Chinese and Vietnamese newspapers—I still can't believe why on earth they would be interested in me—and they all called her. She died a million deaths in one day and then woke up the next day and was like, 'I survived.' She still sees Justin a ton.”