Amy Robach and T.J. Holmes made headlines a year ago after it was reported that they had started a romantic relationship. From late 2022 throughout the entirety of 2023, rumors have swirled around the former GMA3: What You Need to Know co-hosts but, now, they’re breaking their silence. Holmes and Robach landed new gigs as podcast hosts, and the first episode has arrived. In it, they dove into the circumstances surrounding their romance and sought to tell their side of the story. They also didn’t shy away from discussing the lows that came with the situation. That includes the mental health struggles that both experienced amid the relationship and ABC drama.
The inaugural installment of Amy & T.J. was filled to the brim with intimate details from the eponymous couple, who detailed the aftermath of their exits from the alphabet network. At the time, they two had to contend with the business side of the situation, but the buzz surrounding Holmes and Robach’s reported relationship also took its toll on them personally. Robach recalled that Holmes got into a particularly “dark space.” On that note, he recalled sending text messages to his partner in the “past tense” and not realizing how he was sounding. Robach said she truly began to “panic” after Holmes sent a message saying, “'m sorry, you were the love of my life. I'm so sorry this has happened.”
That apparently prompted the veteran newswoman and her father to go to her boyfriend’s place, where they were joined by the doorman, to conduct a “welfare check.” She became emotional when recalling how the situation played out as well as what she was feeling at the time:
I was shaking. I remember going down the hall, opening the door, and my dad came in with me. And I saw you, and you were just splayed out on your bed. And I ran to you. I said, 'T.J.!' and you didn't move. And I remember, it was the most awful thing, having to touch your body to see if you were warm. I was so afraid. You were just incoherent. … I said, ‘Baby, tell me you’re OK! Tell me you’re OK!’ And you were kind of just making no sense, but I knew you were alive. … You weren’t moving and my god, I’ll never forget that night.
T.J. Holmes provided clarity as to why he was in the state that he was in at the time. As the CNN vet explained, up to that point, he’d been indulging in alcohol as well as weed-laced foods:
The day was essentially me getting off at 11 a.m., and I immediately started pounding vodka. And I didn’t stop for several hours, and then I took who knows how many weed edibles. And that’s how I ended up in the state I was in.
Amy Robach went on to discuss her own personal hurdles, bringing up her 2013 breast cancer diagnosis (of which she just marked the 10th anniversary) while doing so. She mentioned that she always believed that particular year was the “worst” of her life. Yet Robach now believes that even that health scare doesn’t compare to what she faced amid the GMA drama:
It’s interesting, when you go through cancer, and, yes, you're afraid to die, but you're fighting to live. And you've got all these people around you, supporting you and cheering you on, and saying, ‘You’ve got this.’ You feel this collective hug from people who are lifting you up when you're scared and you're going through all of these treatments. But this year, I wanted to die. There were days where I wanted to die and that was something I had never experienced before in my life. I just didn't want to get up. I didn't want to see what new headline was going to be out there. And that has been such an eye-opening experience. And then to feel like, who is still behind me? Who supports me? Will I work again? Will I [ever be] trusted again? Will people believe what really happened versus what people have written happened.
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Amy Robach concluded that thought by telling T.J. Holmes that she was “lucky” that they had each other. While both hit those rough patches months ago, they now seem to be in better spaces both personally and professionally. Robach and Holmes went Instagram official months ago and were recently all smiles when making their red carpet debut as a couple at Jingle Ball 2023. And when it comes to work, they’ve expressed enthusiasm over their new podcast. One gets the impression that moving forward they’re going to choose to dwell on the positive and stray from the negative.
New episodes of iHeartMedia’s Amy & T.J. will drop on Tuesdays and will be available wherever you get your podcasts.
