Sue Perkins and Anna Richardson focus on their break up for the primary time

Sue Perkins and Anna Richardson have revealed that they did not communicate for a very long time following their break-up.

The comic, 54, and the TV presenter, 53, opened up on their break up for the primary time in a joint look on Anna’s podcast It Can’t Just Be Me.

The exes went their separate methods over Christmas 2020 after eight years collectively and have now mentioned their transition from romance to friendship.

They admitted that at the beginning they went by means of a interval of no contact, and Sue advised how they needed to let go of the ‘excruciatingly painful’ points that they had throughout their relationship earlier than they might change into pals.

Speaking on the podcast, Anna stated, ‘We did not communicate,’ to which Sue added, ‘Yeah, for a very long time.’

Sue went on to clarify how they managed to change into pals after their break-up, saying they needed to ‘detonate the acquainted’ to rebuild their relationship as pals.

The former Great British Bake Off host additionally confused the significance of not wanting again on earlier arguments and forgiving earlier than shifting forwards.

She stated: ‘You need to type of detonate components of the acquainted as a way to develop new issues, other ways of being, that are born out of friendship. And additionally, you need to forgive what’s been, do not do historical past classes.

‘Once you get that area, the historical past classes cease. What I imply by historical past classes is in a row you go from speaking in regards to the factor that is upsetting you within the second to then monitoring again by means of all the opposite issues in your previous, that has been factors of irritation. 

‘Our break and break up and time aside and all the pieces has meant that we not do historical past classes. We can forgive and simply go, it is all OK.’

Sue stated the trail to changing into pals was not all easy crusing, however stated they’re now in a position to discuss brazenly with one another about all the pieces, together with their relationship lives.

She went on: ‘I feel a interval of getting no contact was good, after which slowly, voicing the issues that had been excruciatingly painful and realising that they had been by no means going to be solved, so allow them to go. 

‘If you maintain on to these issues that made you unhappy, made you offended, all we will do is replicate that, however in a non-sexual context. So each of us in our personal approach let stuff go, it helped in fact that different issues are available in, different distractions.’

To which Anna stated: ‘That’s definitely what I missed – the love but additionally the enjoyable. When you’ve got bought that with any person, if you go “do you know f**k it, let’s let go of all that s**t”, finally our very core is love. We perceive one another.’

‘All that love might be repurposed right into a friendship, I actually imagine that,’ Sue added.

After their break up in Christmas 2020, information of their break-up went public in June 2021, when it was stated that the couple went their separate methods with ‘heavy hearts’.

MailOnline completely revealed on the time that no person else was concerned in Sue and Anna’s choice to separate.

A supply stated: ‘The break up is as amicable as these items can ever be. After so lengthy collectively it wasn’t a simple choice to make they usually each did so with heavy hearts.

‘But Sue and Anna are decided to stay pals and keep up a correspondence. Nobody else is concerned and now the pair are throwing themselves into work.’

It was reported that Anna had moved out of their shared £2million North London house to reside in Staffordshire to be near her mom, who’s caring for her father who’s affected by dementia.

The couple allegedly parted methods after Sue’s reluctance to begin a household, with Anna beforehand revealing she had considered adopting a toddler and felt that ‘time is operating out’ for her to take action.

A good friend of the previous couple stated on the time: ‘It’s actually unhappy they’ve break up, nevertheless it’s been on the playing cards for some time. We know Anna was actually eager to be a mom, however Sue simply did not really feel it was the appropriate time for her.

‘She loves travelling and dealing on varied initiatives and she or he appreciates that life-style and the duty of being a mum or dad would not marry effectively.’

It was additionally claimed that Anna and Sue struggled to reside collectively throughout lockdown given they’re each ‘workaholics’ who’re used to their independence.

Following their break up, Anna admitted that ‘you by no means get used to heartbreak’ and stated she was ‘full of dread’ in regards to the future.

In May 2022, she advised OK! Magazine: ‘I suppose I do not know whether or not you change into extra resilient as you become older, however heartbreak continues to be that thriller that must be solved, and the way you recover from it and change into stronger.’

The pair first started relationship in 2013 after assembly at a Halloween occasion following Anna’s break up from her companion of 18 years Charles Martin.

Speaking to The Telegraph in 2015, Anna defined she had identified Sue for years, nevertheless it was a gathering her at a celebration after her separation from Charles, that made her realise she felt one thing extra than simply friendship.

She gushed: ‘When I used to be invited to the occasion, I used to be advised Sue could be going and I felt, what, a frisson? A spark of curiosity? And I believed: “Hmm, that’s interesting”. There was one thing within the air.

‘It was a rare night time. I used to be dancing on the desk. It felt like a defining second in my life.’

She wasn’t eager on giving herself a label with regard her sexuality on the time, after she had beforehand spent virtually twenty years with a person.

‘For me, it is only a case of I’m who I’m. I’m not fascinated by being labelled homosexual or straight, my sexuality is fluid. I simply occur to have fallen in love with a lady – easy as that,’ she defined.