Amy Schumer and her husband, Chris Fischer, are going their separate ways.
The Life & Beth actress shared the news on Instagram Friday, where she noted that the split was “amicable.”
“Chris and I have made the difficult decision to end our marriage after 7 years,” Schumer wrote under a photo of herself and Fischer. “We love each other very much and will continue to focus on raising our son.”
Schumer seemingly parodied divorce announcements in the rest of the caption, writing “Blah blah blah” at the beginning and middle of the post: “We would appreciate people respecting our privacy at this time. blah blah blah not becisse I dropped some lbs and thought I could bag s basket and not because he’s a hot Janlmes [sic] beard award winning chef who can still pull some hot tail. Amicable and all love and respect! Family forever.”
The Emmy Award winner married the chef in February 2018. Eight months later, she announced she was expecting their first child, son Gene, who was born in May 2019.
Schumer has been candid in talking about her marriage over the years, incorporating Fischer in some of her comedy work. During her 2019 Netflix special Growing, she revealed he was on the autism spectrum.
“I knew from the beginning that my husband’s brain was a little different than mine,” Schumer said at the time in the special. “My husband was diagnosed with what used to be called Asperger’s. He has autism spectrum disorder. He’s on the spectrum.”
Schumer’s real-life marriage paralleled that of her character’s in season two of Life & Beth, as Beth’s (Schumer) husband John (Michael Cera) is diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder (ASD).
The Kinda Pregnant star told The Hollywood Reporter in 2024 that the show was “definitely not a documentary,” and that she “really tr[ies] to pick and choose” what elements of her real life bleed into her professional projects.
Schumer additionally told THR Fischer was was a consulting writer on season two and that several of the writers had connections to autism.
“We really wanted to be respectful and show that, when we talk about the spectrum, what that word means,” Schumer said. “It’s a wide spectrum, and this is part of it that you don’t often get to see: a super high-functioning person. And that that’s not what defines him.”
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