TJ Holmes and Amy Robach have revealed their year of hell, after their affair was exposed by DailyMail.com and Good Morning America axed them from their jobs.
Speaking on their new iHeartRadio podcast, Amy said she was ‘shaking’ as she arrived at TJ’s place for the first time last year after DailyMail.com revealed their romance in November 2022.
She found him in a state of deep despair. TJ said he turned to vodka and weed edibles to get him through the scandal.
The couple were taken off the air on December 5 last year when their dalliance became public knowledge. Following the initial revelation, it emerged that TJ had relationships with other female staffers at ABC.
On January 27, TJ and Amy were officials fired from ABC News over the relationship.
TJ Holmes and Amy Robach are pictured in a publicity shot for their new podcast. They revealed their despair after DailyMail.com exposed their romance and Good Morning America dumped them as anchors
The couple are pictured together in April. TJ and Amy insisted neither is an adulterer because they’d already begun divorce proceedings from their spouses when they began seeing one another
The couple, pictured running the New York City marathon last month, say their relationship is stronger than ever
In the most shocking revelation, TJ said that the day the story was broken by DailyMail.com, he left work at 11:00 am and proceeded to spend the rest of the day ‘pounding vodka’ and ‘taking too many edibles.’
Amy picks up the story.
‘That afternoon, you sent me a text, basically saying, I’m sorry. You were the love of my life. I’m so sorry. This has happened. And you just kept saying you were sorry. But you were using past tense in the entire text,’ she said.
‘And I texted back: “You’re scaring me. Please, tell me you’re okay.” No response. I call, he doesn’t answer. I FaceTime him. He doesn’t answer his FaceTime.’
Amy said that she was then contacted by bosses at ABC who were trying to get in contact with him to no avail.
The former ABC personality said that she was with her parents when she received those text messages and she relayed them which prompted her mother to burst into tears.
From there, Amy and her father jumped in an Uber and headed straight for TJ’s home. After insisting to his doorman that they be let up, she said that she found her lover ‘sprayed out’ on his bed.
‘I ran to you and I said: “TJ!” 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.’
Despite his state, Amy said that she was relieved to know that he was still alive.
‘I knew you were alive. I knew you were gonna be okay. I stayed with you for a little bit. My dad stayed with me. He told me: “I was so afraid of what you were gonna find.”‘
TJ said that the experience was something the pair ‘need to’ and ‘will’ talk further about ‘down the road.
Last week, the couple took to Instagram to announce the launce of their podcast, Amy and T.J.
Early in the podcast, the couple said they’d been told not to come into work by ABC bosses at Good Morning America after the news broke.
But TJ added: ‘We never got a follow-up call to come back,’ with the couple ultimately canned from their roles.
The lovebirds say their romance is stronger than ever and that they’re enjoying building a life together.
TJ also insisted neither was an adulterer and that their divorces from their respective spouses were underway before they began their romance.
During the conversation, Amy said that the past 12 months has been a ‘year of hell.’
Despite the hardships, TJ was bullish telling the audience: ‘ We are the folks who lost the jobs we love because we love each other, and that is bottom line.’
The pair went on to say that the regular encounter people in places such as elevators who tell them that they are ‘rooting’ for them.
Amy said that the affair was ‘the most beautiful relationship’ she has ever been in with TJ following up saying he is now the ‘healthiest and happiest’ he’s ever been in his life.’
They went on the defensive during the podcast, saying that they were both going through divorce proceedings when their relationship began. Both agreed that they are now ‘building a life together.’
Their initial plan had been to formally announce that they were couple in January 2024, a full two months before DailyMail.com disclosed the affair.
After the pair were taken off the air, Amy said that they both received threats and people stalking them outside of their home.
In 2013, Amy revealed on-air that she had been diagnosed with breast cancer, following rounds of chemotherapy and reconstructive surgery, she was finally declared cancer free in March 2022.
On their podcast, Amy said that she previously thought that 2013 was the most difficult year of her life but that during 2023 she actually ‘wanted to die’ due to the scrutiny they came under.
TJ weighed in at that point with elaborating: ‘2017 -2020, I was an absolute mess.’
Deflecting the blame away from their own actions, both blamed ABC for the way the issue was handled allowing it to become ‘mainstream’ and a ‘big deal.’