WNBA legend Sue Chook was candid about her “new period” after the top of her decade-long relationship with former USWNT soccer star Megan Rapinoe.
“It’s like something. It’s like, you develop, you alter, you begin having conversations about that in your relationship, and it simply received to some extent the place we realized it may not be working anymore,” Chook stated in an interview revealed Tuesday for
Chook and Rapinoe — who went public with their relationship in July 2017 and received engaged in 2020 — in a joint Instagram publish in April.
“We undoubtedly deliberate on being collectively perpetually,” Chook stated, explaining that their cut up actually hit residence when her 13- and 11-year-old nieces, her sister Jen’s daughters, had questions after the breakup as a result of they don’t know life with out Rapinoe.
Chook defined that shut family and friends knew issues had been ending, and she or he and Rapinoe made the choice over a couple of months.
The four-time WNBA champ stated their breakup was not abrupt, including that the pair is on “nice phrases” and there’s “no dangerous blood” between them.
Chook additionally stated their expertise in {couples} remedy helped with speaking as they reached the top of their relationship.
Megan Rapinoe and Sue Chook arrives to the 2025 Basketball Corridor of Fame Enshrinement Ceremony on September 6, 2025 on the Naismith Basketball Corridor of Fame in Springfield, Massachusetts. NBAE by way of Getty Photographs
“It’s made it much more, for me, simpler and calmer. In any other case, generally it may possibly really feel such as you’re set in stone on one thing, and that may deliver an nervousness, nevertheless it hasn’t felt like that,” Chook stated.
The pair met on the 2016 Rio Olympics whereas Rapinoe performed for the Seattle Reign of the NWSL and Chook performed for the WNBA’s Seattle Storm.
They introduced the top of their podcast, “A Contact Extra,” of their April breakup publish.
“Once we had been doing the podcast the final month, is it a bit awkward for the 2 of us? Yeah,” Chook stated. “The chemistry and the interplay between us, that was nonetheless very actual. It truly is rooted in an precise love for one another.”
Chook defined that she is worked up for the long run with this model of herself.
“There’s no manner I’m who I’m with out being with Megan,” she stated. “However now that it’s over, I get to take this sort of, like, newish, grown-ish, healed-ish model of myself and be out on this planet once more. It’s thrilling, it’s scary, it’s all of it.”
The Seattle Storm co-owner is predicated on the East Coast and serves as a studio analyst with NBC and Peacock for the 2026 WNBA season.