Ryan SeacrestRyan SeacrestRyan: [reading from an email that he receivedfrom a fan] “Hey Ryan, I just want to let you know that your show is great. I listen every morning. I also have a question. I heard Dorothy and Jillian (sp?) from Good Day LA saying that you are single..” She says, “Is that true? Youre probably thinking Im a total stranger, why would I tell you, but like I said I listen every single day. There are times that you and Ellen are disagreeing about something in your relationship. You call your girlfriend Shana, for her opinion. So me, being a listener of KIIS, I kind of feel like I know you guys. I dont know if that makes any sense to you or not. I just hear you talk about your relationship and how you guys have a little blue paddle, and how she calls you baby.” This is hard to read.
–Ryan O’Neal on Twitter; @ReiHate
To: @HollofEarls
On 6/18/2011, Ryan (1,721) deleted his post from KIIS regarding his relationship with Ellen (1,705) and said: ‘Thats nice to hear..’ And I found this comment by another reader who said…I’m wondering if anybody knows that. Is it true that in his previous email, he said that he went through the “tricks and techniques of a marriage” on his relationship with Ellen (1,721)? Or is it just a mistake on his part? I don’t know if that’s true.
There are, however, some words that may help address this concern. In this case the word is about his ‘unhealthy relationship’ (if I remember correctly). This was not how that was described by the original person who said it. In the last few months, he has said that ‘this is his ‘healthy’ relationship and the reason he is getting out of it. While some of his former associates think that this could be due to this, it is not true. He has said, he does not care where he is or what he does anymore, and is simply busy putting himself out there at his best. We were never together. They were married for the sole reason we were married, it was never the idea that ‘I want her back’. But we still went. My current wife isn’t even allowed to see our daughters in school. That was my relationship with Ellen (although they were together before that). I was married for the sole reason that I had the children, and it was just to have the children and just sit there and let our children grow. „ It sounds like we were so close at first, but I don’t know what happened in this. I have no recollection of anyone who says that. The only thing I can say for now is that I want to take care of their future. Now, when she has a baby, she’s going to have the chance to show them off, no matter what, and they’ll be doing all right. I want to do the things best for them. Do I have a better plan now? Not good enough yet. And I don’t see how I can go on with this anymore. I will go on my life but it will take time. I know my wife is at an age where she’s going off on an adventure and I feel obligated to ask her what we went through. My future is in her hands. I am only having a conversation with your wife. I want to thank you for the opportunity. I hope that all that I have said and done and said yesterday has stuck out. I am happy on your side. Thank you, Mrs O’Neal. Your relationship is awesome! You are such a talented person. ‟ My husband and I have three children on our own. ‧ No. Our relationship is very
Ellen: Mmmhmm…Ryan: [continues reading] “I was just wondering if you guys were still together?” Okay, just a sec…[silence]…We, uh, we are not. We are not, we, we, broke up. This is, I, Ive been dealing with getting through this all week, and I thought this would be easier but we, uh, we did break up. [pause] After two years of dating, but we, we broke up on good terms. We broke up because both of us have things that we want to pursue. We uh, we have goals of our own. We have been together and had a, a fantastic relationship and we were talking about, you know, where do you go from here? Shes 31, Im 30. Uh, and it just wasnt the right time in our lives to take the next step.
Ellen: Right.Ryan: Um, and so as we had this discussion, we just continued down the path of, well, maybe its best that right now, uh, we end the dating relationship on fantastic terms and, and remain on good terms, as we, uh, get some perspective on life and relationship and everything else. So, we, we had that conversation last weekend. We decided to um, to split up, to break up.
Ellen: Uh huh.Ryan: We talked every day since.Ellen: Right.Ryan: Because getting through it is, is so hard and in some strange way getting through it with the person makes it a little bit easier.Ellen: Right, right. Because you can both talk about, Oh my god, its so weird, like, you know, I went here and I thought of you and that kind of stuff.
Ryan: Everything in life when, and, and you, you who are in relationships, or who have broken up and gone through a divorce or whatever it may be you know that everything in life is connected to that person. Everything triggers the emotion. Everything triggers a thought about that person.
Ellen: Mmmhmm.Ryan: You know..?Ellen: Right.Ryan: Everything. So, we decided to break up and thats what we did last weekend. And over the last couple of days, uh, you know, people have been talking about it and it–
Ellen: Well, then Simon said it over national television and that led the girls on Good Day LA, and then it snowballed. And then, then we got all these emails and so Im glad you addressed it because a lot of people are asking me too, like calling me.
Ryan: Right, right. Well, I understand. I mean I, I didnt want it to create anything awkward between anybody and you guys. I didnt want to have to tiptoe around the conversation about it and quite frankly, I made the decision to share that relationship on this radio program.
Ellen: Right.Ryan: And, you know, it is a different relationship now–Ellen: Mmmhmm.Ryan: And, uh, you know, it, its still gonna be hopefully a fantastic relationship, but not the same relationship that it was. And I felt it, it in some way, that it was only fair to discuss it here, and be, uh, as open and probably as, as honest as, as I can be.
Ellen: And you dont mind if I ask you a couple questions?Ryan: [pause][low voice] Well, I, I dont know.Ellen: Well, no, I mean, was this like a sudden thing? Or do, do you feel that maybe you were um, you two were heading in that path for a little while, cause I know you spent the holidays together so that–
Ryan: [sounding really sad] We had a great time at the holidays.Ellen: Okay, so that was all good. Okay.Ryan: I think [clears throat]Ellen: So was