Ali Wong attended the 2025 Golden Globe Awards without Bill Hader.
The 42-year-old actress hit the red carpet solo before the awards ceremony on Sunday (January 5) at the Beverly Hilton in Los Angeles. On the show, she accepted the award for Best Stand-up Comedy Performance on Television for her Netflix special. Ali Wong: single woman — and made no mention of Hader, 46, in his speech.
“My best friend is here, Mia, thank you so much for all your love and support throughout the years,” she said during her speech. “It means a lot. Thank you so much.”
Jamie Foxx, Nikki Glaser, Seth Meyers, Adam Sandler And Ramy Youssef were also in the running for the award that Wong won for his special, which premiered in October 2024.
Wong is already a Golden Globe winner, having won the trophy for Best Actress Performance in a Limited Series, Anthology Series or Motion Picture Made for Television for her role as Amy Lau in the Netflix series. Beef in 2024. She and Steven Yeun starred in the series as two individuals involved in a road rage incident.
Hader – who is a four-time Golden Globe nominee himself – supported Wong last year when she won her first Golden Globe. Although they walked the red carpet separately in January 2024, the couple shared a kiss and multiple hugs when she learned of his win.
Wong didn’t mention Hader in her acceptance speech at the time, but she did offer a special thank you to her ex-husband: Justin Hakutawith whom she shares daughters Mari, 9, and Nikki, 7. (Hader, for his part, is the father of daughters Hannah, 15, Harper, 12, and Hayley, 10, with his ex-wife Maggie Carey.)
“I really have to thank the father of my children and my best friend, Justin, for all your love and support,” she said. “It’s because of you that I can be a working mother.”
Wong was first linked to Hader in 2022 after her split from Hakuta, 43. Wong and Hader briefly separated later that year, but Us every week confirmed in April 2023 that they were back together.
In Wong’s Golden Globe-nominated comedy special, she opened up about the origins of her relationship with Hader.
“Hey, Ali, I just heard the news of your divorce today, and I have to tell you…I’m excited,” she recalled Hader telling her during a phone call after getting her number from a mutual friend. “I am, Ali, because listen, I’ve had a crush on you forever, and I actually told my best friend years ago that you were the girl of my dreams. And I know that It sounds crazy, but, uh, I want you to be my girlfriend.
Wong revealed that Hader later sent her flowers in several cities during her European tour, which her friends thought was “so sweet.” However, her male friends warned her that Hader might be a “psychopath.”
“This is how cheap and lazy men have become,” Wong joked. “Now, when a neighbor commits an act of kindness, a romantic gesture, it must be a symptom of an undiagnosed mental illness.”