Amy Robach and T.J. Holmes offered advice to a person who was cheated on after their own alleged affair scandal.
As part of their “Ask Amy and T.J.” advice column for Yahoo Life, Holmes, 47, and Robach, 52, shared a letter they received from a fan, which stated, “My ex and I dated for five years before we broke up. He cheated on me with my colleague. I was rightfully upset. We had even started to talk about a future and marriage. So I didn’t want to give him a second chance.”
The anonymous person revealed they were “considering going back” to their ex despite the infidelity. Holmes and Robach, however, warned against rekindling an old flame following a cheating scandal.
“Should you go back to him? My answer is no. You broke up for a reason, and I don’t believe that someone cheats out of the blue. It obviously spoke to the quality of your relationship,” Robach noted. “I don’t know what changed so dramatically about him, or what you think changed so dramatically about him.”
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She added: “That said, if you really still have feelings for him and have been pining away for him for the past two years, then you should be direct and ask him to meet up. See how it feels. But I wouldn’t have any expectations that things would be any different now than they were then.”
Robach suggested that perhaps the person was looking at the situation “through rose-colored glasses.”
“You might be wondering if he was your last, best option. I think a lot of people love the idea of having a partner, a teammate to go through life with, and it’s almost less important who the person is, as long as it’s a person you can picture in that idea of a relationship with,” she explained. “But you have to be willing to accept all the bad that comes with the good. And sometimes, that’s a matter of experience and maturity.”
Holmes was of a similar opinion.
“I think you might be making excuses for wanting him back. I don’t think you know who he is now. Who have you been dating since you and he broke up? Who is he dating? Have you been sitting around waiting for him for two years?” he replied. “And now you think he’s improved because he’s got a f***ing pet, and now he’s cool? I don’t think anything that you know of has actually changed about this man.”
Holmes and Robach’s insight comes after their relationship made headlines in November 2022 when they were spotted getting cozy with one another while still married to other people. Robach was still married to Andrew Shue at the time, and Holmes was married to Marilee Fiebig. Holmes and Robach subsequently settled their respective divorces. (Shue, 58, and Fiebig, 47, have since started dating each other.)
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Us Weekly broke the news in January 2023 that Robach and Holmes were officially axed from ABC, and the network later confirmed their departures from GMA3. The couple eventually broke their silence about the timeline of their romance after launching their own podcast.
“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 on “Amy and T.J.” in December 2023.
Robach, meanwhile, claimed that her marriage to Shue was over before she started dating Holmes.
“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.”
