Ryan Seacrest

Ryan: [reading from an email that he received
from a fan] "...Hey Ryan, I just want to let you know that your show is great. I listen every morning. I also have a question. I heard Dorothy and Jillian (sp?) from Good Day LA saying that you are single.." She says, "Is that true? You're probably thinking I'm a total stranger, why would I tell you, but like I said I listen every single day. There are times that you and Ellen are disagreeing about something in your relationship. You call your girlfriend Shana, for her opinion. So me, being a listener of KIIS, I kind of feel like I know you guys. I don't know if that makes any sense to you or not. I just hear you talk about your relationship and how you guys have a little blue paddle, and how she calls you baby." This is hard to read.
Ellen: Mmmhmm...
Ryan: [continues reading] "I was just wondering if you guys were still together?" Okay, just a sec...[silence]...We, uh, we are not. We are not, we, we, broke up. This is, I, I've been dealing with getting through this all week, and I thought this would be easier but we, uh, we did break up. [pause] After two years of dating, but we, we broke up on good terms. We broke up because both of us have things that we want to pursue. We uh, we have goals of our own. We have been together and had a, a fantastic relationship and we were talking about, you know, where do you go from here? She's 31, I'm 30. Uh, and it just wasn't the right time in our lives to take the next step.
Ellen: Right.
Ryan: Um, and so as we had this discussion, we just continued down the path of, well, maybe it's best that right now, uh, we end the dating relationship on fantastic terms and, and remain on good terms, as we, uh, get some perspective on life and relationship and everything else. So, we, we had that conversation last weekend. We decided to um, to split up, to break up.
Ellen: Uh huh.
Ryan: We talked every day since.
Ellen: Right.
Ryan: Because getting through it is, is so hard and in... [continues]

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