Ali Wong Files for Divorce from Justin Hakuta Over a Year After Announcing Split

Mar. 15, 2025

Justin Hakuta and Ali Wong.Photo: Jesse Grant/Getty

Ali Wonghas filed for divorce fromJustin Hakutaover a year after announcing their separation.

Wong is seeking joint legal and physical custody of theirtwo childrendaughters Mari, 8, and Nikki, 6. The documents also stated that the actress and Hakuta are in mediation over their assets.

The divorce filing comes after Wongconfirmed her splitwith Hakuta in April last year.

Wong filed for divorce from Hakuta in Beverly Hills on Friday.Araya Doheny/Getty

A source told PEOPLE of the split at the time, “It’s amicable and they will continue to co-parent lovingly.”

Wong met tech entrepreneur Hakuta at a friend’s wedding in 2010. The pair hit it off instantly and married in San Francisco on Nov. 27, 2014.

Wong addressed signing a prenup in her 2019 memoir dedicated to her daughters,Dear Girls: Intimate Tales Untold Secrets and Advice for Living Your Best Life. In the memoir, perCNBC, the actress said that she felt “more motivated to make my own money because I signed a document specifically outlining how much I couldn’t depend on my husband.”

Wong announced her separation from Hakuta in April last year.Michael Buckner/Variety via Getty Images

Wong said in March that, despite their split, she and Hakuta are still “best friends” and that they are “really, really close.”

Wong is currently dating Bill Hader.Amanda Edwards/FilmMagic, Randy Shropshire/Deadline via Getty

“We’ve been through so much together. It’s a very unconventional divorce,” she toldThe Hollywood Reporter.

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Wong also discussed the attention her divorce received and shared that out of everybody’s reaction, her mother’s was the most difficult to deal with.

“She looked me in the eye and asked, ‘Can you just wait until I die?’ She was literally asking me to not live a life for myself. But she’s 82, what do I expect? … But it was still really f—— hard dealing with all her fear of the shame it would bring her.”

source: people.com