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Kelly Stafford Discusses Her ‘Next Chapter’ Amid Podcast’s Ongoing Hiatus
Kelly Stafford, the wife of Los Angeles Rams quarterback Matthew Stafford, offered an update to fans of her podcast, “The Morning After,” after announcing a hiatus last month.
“I feel this pull to get back to my roots, and to do that, I have to pour into the people I love most,” Kelly shared via Instagram on Wednesday, November 26. “I’ve got a husband in the middle of one hell of a season, and I want to be fully locked in with him. I want to be present for my girls. I want to give my whole heart to the people who have always given theirs to me.”
Kelly, 36, and Matthew, 37, who is currently in the midst of an MVP-caliber season with the NFC-leading Rams, share four daughters: twins Sawyer and Chandler, 8, Hunter, 7, and Tyler, 5.
“This isn’t a goodbye…it’s a see y’all later,’” Kelly insisted. “Thank you for letting me grow, change, fall apart, rebuild, and evolve right beside you. Thank you for loving me through all my versions. I’m excited for whatever the next chapter of TMA becomes someday.”
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The last original episode of “The Morning After,” which Kelly launched in 2021, dropped on October 2.
“I’ve been sitting here thinking about all the ways I am grateful…for my life, for the chaos, for the blessings, and especially for y’all,” Kelly wrote. “Thank you for your patience while I’ve been figuring things out during break. I started this thing over four years ago with a crappy mic, zero editing, and honestly zero clue what I was doing. All I wanted was for other moms to feel seen, because I was so damn tired of social media pretending everything was perfect.”
She added, “And that hasn’t changed. If anything, it’s more true now. This space has been exactly what I needed. It has been unbelievably good for me and more importantly…my family.”
Kelly announced the podcast’s initial hiatus in October, telling her listeners it would “be for about a month.”
“I’ve just been kind of struggling [with] where I see this thing going,” Kelly explained. “Obviously, I have four daughters and a husband and this podcast is another one of my babies and I love it a lot, but not as much as them. It has been taking more time than I’ve wanted it to.”
She added, “For right now, just for somewhat of my mental health and it’s also midseason, there has been changes in this podcast. I just think I need to take a step back and kind of figure out what the plan is. I’m not saying this is over. I really need a second.”
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The podcast’s hiatus came just weeks after cohost Hank Winchester, 51, who joined the podcast in 2023, was cleared in a sexual misconduct investigation.
“I’m very thankful to be on the other side of this 100 percent clear. No charges,” Winchester said on the August 18 episode of “The Morning After.” “The evidence spoke for itself. But I’ll tell you, it was an emotionally exhausting process.”
However, it was revealed Winchester was fired from his job as a reporter at WDIV-TV in Detroit on October 3 following the police investigation. The announcement of Winchester’s firing came one day after the most recent episode of “The Morning After” was released.
Kelly has not commented on Winchester’s firing, and WDIV has not explained exactly why Winchester was terminated.
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