Why Jon Stewart’s Ex-Head Writer Chelsea Devantez Decided to Tell Him the Truth

Chelsea Devantez, who served as head writer at Jon Stewart’s former Apple TV+ show, has kept a pretty big secret for most of her career. But with her new memoir out this week, I Shouldn't Be Telling You This: (But I'm Going to Anyway), Devantez decided it was time to pull back the curtain on her experience with domestic abuse—and what it was like to shepherd Stewart’s Emmy-nominated show while trying to cope with her trauma.

“I had cried so much,” Devantez tells The Daily Beast of her time as head writer on The Problem With Jon Stewart, as the writers room took on 2021’s domestic violence episode. “[Jon] definitely saw me after the show and knew how emotional I was.”

It was at that point that Devantez decided it was time to tell her famous boss why the episode was so important to her, even though she writes in her book that she appreciated that she didn’t have to: “What had come to matter even more was that Jon had eagerly taken on the episode topic without ever knowing what had happened to me personally. Because he already knew how much it mattered.”

Read more at The Daily Beast.