Fortune Feimster and Jacquelyn 'Jax' Smith are heading for divorce after 5-year marriage

Fortune Feimster and her woman of 5 years, Jacquelyn “Jax” Smith, are divorcing, the erstwhile mates posted Monday connected societal media.

“Together, we person made the hard determination to extremity our marriage,” they wrote successful a connection posted connected their Instagram accounts. “We’ve been separated for a small bit, some of america dealing with pugnacious wellness situations successful our families, truthful it wasn’t thing we were acceptable to speech about.”

They continued, “While we are bittersweet to spot this section of our lives travel to a close, we privation each different thing but the champion arsenic we determination forward. We’ve had 10 years together, and there’s truthful overmuch to observe astir that and truthful overmuch we volition look backmost connected fondly.”

“The Mindy Project” actor, a Groundlings veteran, requested privateness successful the aftermath of the news.

Smith was a kindergarten teacher and aboriginal joined Feimster’s originative team, enforcement producing 3 of her drama specials, “Sweet & Salty” successful 2020, “Good Fortune” successful 2022 and “Crushing It” successful 2024. The 2 met astatine a 2015 Pride lawsuit successful Chicago, dated agelong region for a fewer years, got engaged successful 2018 and joined successful a tiny ceremonial during the archetypal twelvemonth of the COVID-19 pandemic.

The women’s families attended the wedding via Zoom.

“I privation radical to cognize maine and Jax are similar everybody else,” the 44-year-old comedian told People successful October 2022. “We hap to beryllium cheery but our communicative is not overmuch antithetic from different people’s. ... You don’t person to beryllium cheery to subordinate to an engagement story.”

Divorce? Definitely — albeit unluckily — relatable.

Feimster credits Chelsea Handler with launching her vocation arsenic a writer-performer-standup comedian. She is credited arsenic a writer connected astir 600 episodes of “Chelsea Lately” betwixt 2011 and 2014.

“She was putting radical connected TV that nary 1 other was putting connected TV,” Feimster told The Times successful 2023, “and not truly caring if you acceptable the mold of who should beryllium connected TV. ... She was the archetypal idiosyncratic who gave maine the ‘yes’ erstwhile everyone was telling maine ‘no.’”