Angie Mead King reveals she and Joey went through a rough time after her decision to come out

Angie Mead King has revealed that her relationship with her now wife Joey Mead King went through a rough patch when Angie decided that she wanted to come out.

On “The Howie Severino Podcast,” Angie said that even before she and Joey started dating, back when he was known as Ian, he knew he was different.

“Backtrack. So even before Joey, I knew I was different. I knew that I needed to come clean to my next relationship that I had an inkling for female things,” said the trans woman and entrepreneur.

“So three months into dating Joey, I told her I liked women’s underwear. I started there as ice breaker.”

Angie said because Joey worked in the fashion industry, which was surrounded by trans women, it wasn’t hard for her to be supportive. She said they traveled and dressed up abroad, which became their “fun and games for a few years.”

The turning point came when Angie’s father got sick and she had to be with him in Germany.

“So seeing my dad, seeing how fragile life was, seeing how possibly short life could be, I didn’t want to wait that long. I didn’t want to have to suppress myself and lived this double life na only when I’m traveling, I get the joy like this, so I basically made the decision,” said Angie.

Angie said when Joey visited her in Europe, she told her: “‘I wanna live like this. I wanna come out and be myself.’ That’s when our relationship turned bad.”

The couple went through “four years of very rough time,” where both of them had their own counselors. Angie also said they also traveled to other countries on their own to figure ourselves out.

“Because it was getting toxic na. She wasn’t getting what she wanted, I wasn’t getting what I wanted.”

Angie said there was a lot of resentment and Joey “felt abandoned in that sense that the person that she met is not there for her anymore.”

“What brought us back together or at least what kept us together was this simple, sounds simple, but obviously the execution is different,” said Angie.

“Basically I told her, ‘babe, transition is not instant, ’di ba? Tomorrow it’s not like that. Tomorrow I’ll be that person. It’s over years, it takes time, and if tomorrow you wake up and you still like what you see then let’s stay together. But if the more you don’t like what you see, then, break it off na,’” she said.

“We took the fear out of the future and compress it into the present. And that’s why the mentality was, ‘let’s do day-by-day,’” she added.

Angie said from there, that’s how they got back to why they liked being together. “We basically knew that we were going to be together because we were so alike in so many ways, in terms of habits and values that I think within a month and a half, I asked Joey to move in with me already.”

She also knew right from the start that Joey was the one. “So I knew, I knew this girl is different. I really want be with her already. And that’s why I came clean early on,” she said. – RC, GMA News