Collectively, the comedy star and the entrepreneur, each 39, welcomed two kids: Mari and Nikki. Wong typically references Hakuta in her stand-up reveals, together with in her most up-to-date comedy particular, Ali Wong: Don Wong. At one level within the particular, which was launched to Netflix in February, Wong jokingly recalled how she “pressured the s–t out of my then-boyfriend to suggest to me,” solely to finish up in, as she put it, “monogamy jail.”
“It was loopy. My want got here true,” she mentioned. “He proposed, we obtained married, we purchased a home, had two children. Quick-forward to seven years later, current day, I am, like, I do not know why I did that. I believe that what occurred was, on the time, my future in comedy was trying very unsure. I used to be actually struggling….And I panicked. I used to be like, ‘I do not know if I could make it on this world alone. So I higher entice this dude who graduated from Harvard Enterprise College in order that I do not find yourself homeless.’ However now, I do know that I could make it alone. So I type of wanna simply be alone. Solely different married folks with children can empathize with the deep envy I really feel in direction of you single folks. OK, you do not know how free you might be.”
