Chelsea Handler Clarifies Threesome with Masseuse Was Not Why Her Relationship with Ted Harbert Ended

Chelsea Handler is setting the report straight about why her relationship with ex Ted Harbert ended greater than a decade in the past.

On Thursday’s episode of The Tonight Present Starring Jimmy Fallon, the 48-year-old comic clarified the main points behind their break up, 4 months after she mentioned their breakup adopted a threesome with a masseuse.

“I like to inform my private historical past as if it’s my solely private historical past,” she shared. “And I all the time neglect there are different individuals concerned in my tales.”

After spilling particulars of their ménage à trois in June, she allegedly obtained a message from former NBC chairman Harbert — who she referred to as “a really expensive pal of mine” — which she recalled saying, “That was not cool. Please do not do this once more. Some issues are higher left personal.”

She added after receiving the “stern” response, she googled herself to recollect what she had mentioned and located headlines in regards to the interview.

“So I actually need to make clear, I need to go on the report that’s not why our relationship ended,” she defined. “We did have a number of threesomes and that whereas that is personal, it is already on the market. So I am gonna double down on that and simply say that we did not break up as a result of I left him for the masseuse. That did not occur.”

“So many individuals got here as much as me, they’re like, ‘Wow, that gave Ted Harbert a number of avenue cred, who knew he was having threesomes,’” she joked. “So I simply need to say he was.”

She concluded, “However I like Ted Harbert. I like you, for those who’re watching. Hopefully not.”

Again in June, Handler chatted with Andy Cohen on his SiruisXM radio present a few threesome she had with the couple’s masseuse — and the way that was the start of the top of her relationship with Harbert. 

When requested if she has ever dated a girl, the Chelsea Recently star revealed, “I’ve slept with a girl however I have never dated a girl.” When Cohen pushed for extra particulars, Handler admitted it was throughout a threesome.

“I used to be very turned on by this girl,” she mentioned. “I ended up hooking up together with her a number of occasions with out the man that I used to be courting. That is after I knew it was time to interrupt up with the man.”

Cohen laughed and Handler continued.

“I do not assume I ever revealed that, however I imply, hopefully, he is listening now,” she mentioned with a chuckle. “His identify is Ted Harbert. He is in Portugal although. He won’t have entry to this … he and his spouse are constructing a home in Portugal.”

Handler and Harbert broke up in 2010 after courting for 4 years. He was the president of E! Leisure when the Handler’s late-night present launched in 2006. 

Beforehand, Handler prompt the explanation they broke up was as a result of he could not separate work from the remainder of their life. 

“I might come house from work, and Ted can be like, ‘Do you need to watch your present?’ and I’d be like, ‘No, I simply got here from my present. That’s the very last thing I’d need to do,’” she mentioned in an interview with Marie Claire in 2012. “That was the explanation it didn’t work out, in the end. I feel.”