- YouTuber Jake Paul has spoken about his recent breakup with Tana Mongeau, saying he fell out of love with her and in love with boxing.
- He told Page Six that Mongeau has been very supportive and they ended things on "great terms."
- At a press conference for his upcoming boxing match with British YouTuber AnEsonGib, Paul told Entertainment tonight he would always love Mongeau.
- "When we made that decision it was a weight lifted off both of our shoulders," he said. "It kind of reminded us of how the relationship started, which was as friends."
- Paul and Mongeau broke up after getting married six months ago. The pair both posted statements on their Instagram pages announcing that they were taking a break to focus on their own "crazy lives."
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Jake Paul has spoken about his recent breakup with Tana Mongeau, saying he replaced her with his newfound love of boxing.
He told Page Six that Mongeau has been "super supportive" throughout everything.
"We ended things on great terms, we're friends," he said. "I guess I fell in love with the sport of boxing and fell out of love with Tana."
The 22-year-old YouTuber is currently training for a fight against British YouTuber AnEsonGib in Miami on January 30. At a press conference, Paul told Entertainment tonight he would always love Mongeau, but the pair are better off as friends.
"When we made that decision it was a weight lifted off both of our shoulders," he said.
"It kind of reminded us of how the relationship started, which was as friends."
He went on to say Mongeau is an "amazing girl" but it just "wasn't the right time" for them to be together.
When asked whether they could get back together, Paul said: "I don't know what the future holds. We'll see."
Meanwhile, Mongeau, who married Paul in July after just four months of dating, has been addressing rumors that she's started dating another YouTube superstar, David Dobrik.
"we'd like to be addressing these rumors in private smh,"Mongeau tweeted with a photo of her FaceTime-ing with Dobrik.
Dobrik also responded to a story from Life and Style which asked, "So, are y'all dating or what ..."
He retweeted it replying: "R y'all on crack."
we’d like to be addressing these rumors in private smh 🙄 pic.twitter.com/x4bRESOxR6
— Tana Mongeau (@tanamongeau) January 8, 2020
Paul and Mongeau announced their breakup at the start of January, after just six months of being married — although there's been a lot of speculation that the ceremony wasn't legitimate because they didn't have a marriage licence.
The pair both posted statements on their Instagram pages announcing that they were taking a break to focus on their own "crazy lives." It came just a few days after Mongeau posted an emotional video called, "the truth about everything," where she hinted that her and Paul's relationship had gone downhill since their wedding night — which she called "just hell."
"For right now we both are taking a break to focus on our own very crazy lives,"Mongeau wrote in her statement. "I'll never know what the future holds and I will always love Jake and everything we did. I'm grateful to know throughout this I've made a best friend for life & found someone to do life with when no one understood me."
Paul said he wouldn't change anything and mirrored Mongeau's sentiment of their remaining close friends who needed to focus on themselves. He said the break was "bitter sweet" but "what's best for us right now."
"The last thing we wanna see is fan pages speculating 'what happened,'" he said.
"We truly just need a second to focus on our own lives and ourselves."
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