Amy Schumer is opening up about her faith and how her family chooses to move forward when the going gets tough.
“I love Hanukkah. I was always really excited about it. Every time we light the candles, I feel like we’ve won,” Schumer, 44, said in an Instagram video shared by Noa Tishby on Sunday, December 21, the final night of Hanukkah. “Jewish pride is the only way to fight against antisemitism. When things are the absolute worst is when my family is the funniest.”
She continued, “Just when we hit rock bottom is when we can laugh the hardest. And I think that that’s not unique to me.”
The comments come two weeks after Schumer announced her separation from estranged husband Chris Fischer amid speculation the pair were headed towards a split.
“Blah blah blah Chris and I have made the difficult decision to end our marriage after 7 years,” Schumer wrote via Instagram at the time. “We love each other very much and will continue to focus on raising our son. We would appreciate people respecting our privacy at this time.”
She also said the separation is not happening because “I dropped some lbs” or because Fischer is a “hot” James Beard “award winning chef who can still pull some hot tail.”
“Amicable and all love and respect!” she added. “Family forever.”
Schumer and Fischer began dating in November 2017, getting engaged a few months later. “The way that my now-husband proposed was so worthless,” Schumer joked during her Saturday Night Live monologue in May 2018. “It was a dumb proposal. It was the morning. I was asleep. He threw the box at me and said, ‘I got you this.’ But that’s a realistic proposal.”
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The pair married in February 2018 and welcomed their son Gene in May 2019 — around the same time she revealed Fischer had been diagnosed with autism.
“I knew from the beginning that my husband’s brain was a little different than mine,” Schumer said in her 2019 Netflix special, Growing. “Once he was diagnosed, it dawned on me how funny it was, because all of the characteristics that make it clear that he’s on the spectrum are all of the reasons that I fell madly in love with him.”
She later addressed fan concerns about how she would feel if her son was diagnosed with autism, too.
“My husband is my favorite person I’ve ever met,” Schumer wrote via Instagram in August 2019. “He’s kind, hilarious, interesting and talented and I admire him. Am I supposed to hope my son isn’t like that?”
She added, “I’d be disappointed if he liked the Big Bang Theory and NASCAR, not if he has ASD.”
Schumer gave Fischer a boost on social media just hours before announcing their split, praising his steadfast support during her battle with endometriosis, a chronic health condition in which tissue similar to what lines the uterus grows outside the uterus.
“Just found this from years ago pretty. My truest self. Chris dug it,” Schumer, 44, captioned a December 12, Instagram video from her 2021 endometriosis surgery. “I’ve been through a lot with endometriosis. Tell someone you love they shouldn’t have heavy excruciating periods. @endofound donate along with me today.”
