Jake Paul and Tana Mongeau are officially “taking a break” five months after their lavish Las Vegas wedding, according to their nearly identical Instagram posts Friday (Jan. 3).
Both YouTube personalities penned separate captions while sitting side-by-side — a detail they mention repeatedly to emphasize their amicability.
Paul’s message reiterated “how silly this all seems,” but wished his ex the best as they go their separate ways. “I wouldn’t change anything that happened.. we’re best friends and right now it’s best for us to focus on our lives & see what the future holds,” he wrote on Instagram. “(p.s our friends started playing sad music while we were writing these captions and we all started laughing our asses off.. this is bitter sweet but it’s what’s best for us right now).”
As the two take a second to focus on themselves, Paul detailed how he gets to keep custody of their dog Thor and that Mongeau “unfortunately gets my Lamborghini,” he lightheartedly wrote with a laughing emoji. Although her post joked about her newly gained treasures this year (“here’s to 2020, working on us, and my new Lamborghini since i get half of everything!”), the 21-year-old star echoed his sentiment by sharing her appreciation for a newly gained best friend.
“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,” she wrote. “I love u Jakey. thank u for this past year.”
They didn’t want their vast fanbase to bother speculating what could’ve happened, according to each of their captions, so both used social media as the platform to announce the news themselves.
Despite their flashy nuptials this past July, which she confessed was not legally binding, Mongeau hinted there was trouble in paradise on Monday (Dec. 30), when she posted a 40-minute YouTube video titled “the truth about everything. (the wedding, jake, alissa, erika, mtv, mental health, drugs, etc.).”
“I think I just put so much of myself into Jake that I lost myself, and that’s not his fault, and I’m not blaming him for that at all,” Mongeau commented. “It’s just the reality. I don’t regret it.”
She added in the emotionally raw clip, “I think the second he said, ‘I do,’ to me, he was like, ‘Now what?’ I think he was also over it. I don’t blame him, but it left me clinging, trying to make this work.”
Despite taking off the rose-colored glasses, Mongeau and Paul have yet to comment on the fate of their joint MTV show Bustedness — the spin-off series to Ridiculousness — that was announced last month on their since-deleted Instagram posts.
Read their bittersweet messages to each other below.