Amy Robach tears up as she describes feeling ‘pressure’ amid T.J. Holmes romance as controversial couple delve into their issues in tense podcast episode: ‘Love is a choice’

Outwardly, they seem like the perfect couple, despite their rocky beginnings that saw them lose their jobs at Good Morning America.

But Amy Robach and TJ Holmes were at odds when they opened up about their relationship on their eponymous podcast, Amy and TJ

The couple got real about the issues that recently plagued their romance in a raw new episode titled “Things Ain’t Right” — and Amy, 50, even choked up as she reflected on the “pressure” she felt while dating T.J. worked after their jobs disappeared. taken from them ‘unfairly’.

“You and I are not okay right now,” TJ, 46, admitted at the beginning of the episode. “I said, you know what, let’s set up and make a podcast.”

The journalist described how after seeing comments on TikTok commenting on how “cute” they looked, he started to feel like a “fraud.”

“Reading that makes me feel like an imposter today at least,” he explained, later adding that he was optimistic that they would overcome their current rough patch.

Amy got incredibly candid as she talked about what love meant to her — and how it was more than a feeling and ultimately a choice.

“I’ve talked a lot about living my truth and so this is part of it. I’m okay with having these conversations because there isn’t a couple that doesn’t. And so yeah, I don’t want to, and I know you don’t either, create a false narrative that somehow we’re the perfect couple and we’ve found our true love and that means we never fight that we can always get along. and things are rosy and wonderful. No they are not.

“And even though we know each other now more than most people who have been in a relationship for more than a year, we’ve known each other for about ten years now and we know each other very, very well… like I learn things about it every day you as we are, we have always worked together, but working with this kind of pressure above our heads is something completely different. The pressure is great.’

“Are you talking about the workload or the pressure we are now publicly exerting to succeed as a couple?” TJ asked.

‘I don’t feel the pressure from the public to stay with you. I know you well enough and I spent enough time with you and I knew how I felt and love is sometimes a choice when it’s hard. It’s not just a feeling. Lust is a feeling, but love is a choice, I believe, and I chose to love you, so I feel no pressure from the public to be with you. I would personally be devastated because I want to be with you and I chose you.

Amy broke down in tears as she opened up about the loss of her job and the future of her career: “But I feel the pressure of our careers that I think we’ve unfairly taken from us, and I really want to would like to be able to do that. what I like and I want to be able to do it with you, so that’s more the pressure I feel.’

An emotional Amy also admitted that she felt some distance from her partner.

The couple got real about the recent issues plaguing their seemingly perfect romance

“I felt extremely disconnected from you, and I am someone who wants and needs physical touch, words of affirmation, and communication,” she said, adding that TJ was “emotionally removed.”

“These past few days I felt disconnected from you,” she explained.

Holmes and Robach made headlines in November 2022 after their off-screen friendship developed into a full-blown romantic relationship. The romantic affair was first revealed by DailyMail.com.

The pair were involved in a passionate romance, despite both being married to their respective spouses for the past twelve years.

According to insiders, TJ and Amy’s friendship started in June, if not earlier, “when they were in London together filming the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee for ABC and the staff was buzzing about the intimacy between them.”

Holmes and Robach made headlines in November 2022 after their off-screen friendship evolved into a full-blown romantic relationship

They were later fired from GMA in January 2023 after their scandal broke.

As the saga unfolded, Robach and Holmes filed for divorce from their spouses, both of whom they had been married to since 2010. The divorces have now been finalized.

On a recent episode of the couples’ latest podcast, Holmes and Roach talked candidly about drinking too much amid a stressful and tumultuous 2023.

They revealed that they have since decided to take part in Dry January, as Holmes said he would ‘easily drink 18 drinks a day’.

Robach also admitted that the amount of alcohol she drank was appalling amid the stress resulting from the publicity affair and the personal and professional fallout afterward.

They were later fired from GMA in January 2023 after their scandal broke

“I had no job to go to and I was away from a lot of friends and family,” Robach said. ‘What have I done? I drank a lot. Much more than I’ve ever done. I don’t think I’ve ever drank a whole day and for me that was 2023.”

Robach said that although she drank consistently, she did not “get wasted or drunk,” but rather tried to change her mood as she struggled through a difficult time in her life.

“It was staying on a buzz all day,” she said, “or maintaining an elevated state of mind during an anxious year.”

Holmes said that facing unpleasant truths was an essential element in recognizing a problem that needs to be fixed.