Amy Robach was struggling over whether to end her marriage — until her therapist shared some much-needed advice.
During the Tuesday, March 18, episode of the “I Do Part 2” podcast, Robach, 52, and boyfriend T.J. Holmes interviewed Vanderpump Rules alum Brittany Cartwright about her split from Jax Taylor. Robach commended Cartwright, 36, for doing what was best for her and the couple’s 3-year-old son, Cruz.
“My therapist — when I was struggling with what to do — said to me about my daughters, ‘Is this the marriage you would want for them? If it’s not, then what are you showing them?’” Robach, who shares daughters Annalise, 21, and Ava, 18, with ex-husband Tim McIntosh, recalled. “So I just wanted to give that [advice] to you as well.”
She continued: “I know we all have mom guilt or dad guilt. You’re putting your kids first. And yet you’re also trying to navigate your own life. So I think that’s brave and admirable.”
Amy Robach and Andrew Shue’s Relationship Timeline
Robach didn’t specify who she was married to when she received the guidance. She tied the knot with McIntosh, 59, in 1996 and they were married for more than a decade before calling it quits. Robach subsequently moved on with Andrew Shue in 2010.
News of Robach and Shue’s split came after she was spotted spending time with her then-GMA3 coanchor Holmes, 47, in November 2022. Holmes was married to Marilee Fiebig at the time but filed for divorce in December 2022. He was also previously married to Amy Ferson.
Us Weekly broke the news in January 2023 that Robach and Holmes were officially axed from ABC and the network later confirmed their departure from GMA3. The couple initially remained tight-lipped about the scandal before breaking their silence on their podcast, which has publicly documented the ups and downs in their relationship.
“To be clear, we were outed as being in a relationship, but everyone else thought we were being outed as adulterers — being outed as cheating on our spouses — and it wasn’t the case because the odd thing is, the day those pictures were taken and the day that article was released, we both, at that point, were in divorce proceedings,” Holmes said in the debut episode of his and Robach’s “Amy and T.J.” podcast in December 2023.
GMA3’s Amy Robach and T.J. Holmes’ Relationship Timeline
Robach, meanwhile, claimed that her marriage to Shue, 58, was over before she started dating Holmes. (Shue and Holmes’ ex-wife Fiebig are now currently dating.)
“We had attorneys, mediators, we were in the middle of divorces,” she shared at the time. “We thought we were protecting our children and our families and we thought we had time and we thought we had a right to privacy and maybe that was foolish and silly.”
Robach and Holmes recently surprised listeners when discussing a potential engagement. “It’s not an if, it’s a when. I like that. I actually appreciate that,” Robach said on their podcast in December 2024 before revealing how Holmes turned her down when she asked about proposing to him. “T.J., you told me that I should never propose to you.”
Holmes seemed surprised by Robach’s statement, to which she added, “Remember, we were talking about women proposing to men? But I’m just saying that if I answer this, I feel like that’d be kind of in part me saying when I would like to get married.”
Robach continued: “We don’t have a date, obviously, and we haven’t even decided what we’re going to do. [But] I said I want to and I’d like to in the fall [and] that would be akin to me proposing to you.”
