Chelsea Handler just lately made a major profession resolution that tremendously impacted her relationships, and he or she remains to be coping with the emotional fallout.
The comic appeared on Tuesday’s (February 18) episode of The Jamie Kern Lima Present, the place she mirrored on her tough selection to go away her longtime company. In November 2024, Handler, who’s at the moment on a nationwide stand-up tour together with her present Chelsea Handler Reside, signed with WME.
Handler defined how the choice to alter companies led to some uncomfortable and emotional conversations together with her former brokers, who had turn out to be shut pals through the years.
“One among my conversations with one in all my brokers was fairly emotional, really, as a result of she and I needed to have a private expertise a number of years again,” Handler defined. “And that was very significant and a tough time in her life, and it grew to become emotional.”
She then began to get choked up when speaking about one other heartfelt dialog together with her different agent, who she’d been working alongside for a very long time.
“Once more, I acquired off the cellphone and I spoke to my different agent, who I had for a few years, and I felt proud that I used to be in a position to face that second,” she recalled. “I felt proud that I used to be in a position to be an grownup. I felt proud that we acquired emotional.”
“I’m getting emotional simply speaking about it,” the previous speak present host added, wiping tears from her eyes.
Handler admitted that whereas these conversations had been powerful, they had been additionally “so significant” as a result of they confirmed her how actual her connections with these folks had been.
“As a result of all you actually need in life is to have an effect on folks,” she continued. “That’s what I need. I need folks to really feel impacted by me. I need folks to really feel higher and to know that I’m your sister. And with that dialog together with her… she jogged my memory that I used to be a superb sister to her, and I had forgotten that.”
The Chelsea Handler Present star additionally shared some recommendation for these dealing with tough selections or difficult conversations. “You saying your piece or standing up for your self doesn’t must be battle,” she acknowledged. “It may be straightforward.”
Handler most just lately hosted the thirtieth Critics’ Selection Awards, which aired on E! and Peacock. Final yr, she appeared within the short-lived ABC sitcom Not Lifeless But and the coming-of-age comedy movie Promenade Dates.