Chrissy Metz and Bradley Collins’ working partnership isn’t going wherever. The singer and creator not too long ago revealed that she and Bradley had damaged up after greater than three years collectively. Chrissy spoke solely with HollywoodLife about navigating this post-breakup chapter of her life.

“The gorgeous factor is that we’re mates, and we’re nonetheless working collectively,” the 43-year-old stated. “I feel whenever you love any individual, you don’t cease loving. You may love them in a distinct capability and another way. We love one another a lot that we’re like, oh, we’re going to proceed to be mates. That feels very mature, and I’m simply grateful as a result of folks have gone via horrible breakups and it’s tumultuous, and I by no means wished it to be that method.”

She continued, “I feel it’s so necessary to not solely speak about how necessary it’s to talk up for what you want in a relationship — each events — but additionally know that that’s what you’re alleged to do. It’s, like, vital. It’s bittersweet as a result of I like him. It wasn’t like both of us had been horrible people.”

Chrissy and Bradley co-wrote their kids’s ebook Once I Speak to God, I Speak About You. Their newest co-writing challenge is the kids’s album Prayed for This Day. They’re at the moment engaged on their second kids’s ebook collectively.

“That’s only a testomony to our connection, and that’s what’s actually necessary,” Chrissy defined. “I’ve had so many mates rising up the place their mother and father are divorced, however they spend holidays collectively or convey their new spouses over. Individuals can coexist.”

On October 6, Chrissy and Bradley launched a joint assertion about their break up. “After three and a half years collectively, we’ve determined to finish our romantic relationship amicably. Whereas we proceed to like one another very a lot, we imagine that is the perfect path for us each. We nonetheless have books to jot down, songs to sing, and a particular friendship to maintain us in one another’s lives endlessly,” the previous couple acknowledged.

The This Is Us alum revealed in our unique interview that she and Bradley hadn’t initially deliberate on making a kids’s album linked to their kids’s ebook. Nevertheless, they quickly felt impressed to start writing songs. “It felt like this was a lot larger than us, and I feel that’s what lovely artwork actually is,” Chrissy famous.