It’s been almost 10 years and my kids are so lucky that Amy is their mother and I’m so lucky that we’re such a huge part of each other’s lives, even more so than we were five years ago. Called Yes Please, it is, as Poehler fans might expect, funny, wise, earnest, honest, spiritually ambitious, occasionally self-indulgent and structurally messy. This isn’t some game.’” But, he added, “You get on with it. What are you talking about? This is a breakup. It’s brutal with any relationship, and we have kids, and without getting into specifics, you then see stuff online, like, this one journalist wrote: ‘I’m Team Amy.’ I’m like: ‘You’re a grown person. “People talk about you like they know you and they talk about your relationship as if they know what’s going on,” he said. I was driving to the set one day and I pulled over to the side of the road and cried for an hour.” But he also credits the show's creator, Mitch Hurwitz, with helping him transform that pain into something “hilarious and cathartic.”Īrnett went on to explain that being in the public eye only makes these difficult personal moments all the more painful. Amy tells her story in a relatable voice, at times touching and frank. In a new interview with The Guardian, the actor said that at the time of their separation around 2012 he was shooting the fourth season of Arrested Development and it was “almost excruciating…Just brutal, brutal, brutal. Review: 'Just finished listening to Amy Poehler's YES, PLEASE. While their divorce may have been “brutal” at the time, Will Arnett says that looking back at his split from Amy Poehler, he's still grateful for the huge role they've both played in each other's lives.

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