Sue Bird is opening up about her split from Megan Rapinoe.
The couple, who were together for 10 years, announced their breakup in April with a joint statement. Sue, 45, spoke to Women’s Health about how she’s doing now in an interview published on Tuesday (June 9).
“It’s like anything. It’s like, you grow, you change, you start having conversations about that in your relationship, and it just got to a point where we realized it might not be working anymore,” she said, acknowledging that the split came as a surprise since she and Megan, 40, “planned on being together forever.”
The former couple first met during the 2016 Rio Olympics and announced their engagement in October 2020.
Despite no longer being together, the retired basketball pro says she and Megan remain on “great terms” and have no “bad blood” between them.
Sue and Megan were open about going to couples therapy on their joint podcast A Touch More and Sue says that experience has helped her cope with the breakup.
“It’s made it a lot more, for me, easier and calmer,” she shared. “Otherwise, sometimes it can feel like you’re set in stone on something, and that can bring an anxiety, but it hasn’t felt like that.”
In addition to announcing they were no longer together in April, Megan and Sue also shared that they would be ending their podcast at the time. The final episode was released on May 28.
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