Amy Robach And T.J. Holmes Break Silence On GMA Firing: 'We Lost The Jobs We Love Because We Love Each Other'

One year to the day that Amy Robach and T.J. Holmes were benched by ABC News, the former Good Morning America hosts are spilling the tea (so to speak) about the relationship that cost them their jobs.

The first episode of their self-titled podcast addresses their infamous ousting head on. "Other people have... told our narrative," Robach says. "And I shouldn't say 'our.' They told a narrative; it wasn't our narrative, and this is the first time that we actually get to say what happened, and where we are today."

It was November of last year when the Daily Mail published photos of Robach and Holmes spending time together in Upstate New York. Robach at the time was married to Melrose Place vet Andrew Shue, while Holmes was married to attorney Marilee Fiebig. But the ex-GMA3 duo stress that they were never having an affair.

"We were outed," Holmes declares. "To be clear, we were outed as being in a relationship, but everyone else thought we were being outed as adulterers, being outed as cheating on our spouses, and it wasn't the case.

"The day those pictures were taken, the day that article was released that outed us, we both at that point were in divorce proceedings," he explains, before Robach specifies that Shue had moved out of their shared home "three months earlier," and Holmes says that he'd been living separately from Fiebig since "last summer."

Their plan was to finalize their divorces before going public with their relationship. "We thought, 'In January, we're going to go and walk in and explain to [ABC] management that we are a couple,'" Robach says. "We'd even talked about doing it earlier. Right before the pictures came out, we thought, 'Should we tell them what's going on?'" But they ultimately decided to wait until their divorces were cleaned up, and never considered the possibility that they'd wind up in the tabloids.

"We had every intention of [going public]," she says, "and we didn't believe... that we were doing anything technically wrong."

Adds Holmes: "What we [did was] we failed at being good crisis managers. We failed at understanding some level of celebrity that neither one of us thought we had. In that world, affiliated with the show we were affiliated [with], that's just a sexy freaking story, and I just don't think we thought about it in that way — that anybody would give a damn what we were doing."

As for how they feel about their termination? Well....

"I guess the best way to sum us up, Amy and T.J., is that we are the folks who lost the jobs we love because we love each other," Holmes says. "And that is the bottom line."

Listen to the full podcast below, then hit the comments with your reactions to Robach and Holmes' first public statements on the matter.