Amy Robach and T.J. Holmes React to Their Former Boss’s Exit from ABC News: ‘It’s Sad How the Story Ended’

"It opens up that wound of what we had hoped could have been that wasn't," Robach said of Kim Godwin's departure from the network

Amy Robach and T.J. Holmes are thinking about what could have been.

In light of the news that Kim Godwin, the president of ABC News, is exiting the network, which she announced on Instagram on Monday, May 6, Robach and Holmes reflected on their own experiences with Godwin, who was the figure who ultimately ended their careers at the network two years ago.

"I would say the best way to describe how I feel is sad," Robach, 51, said on the May 7 episode of her and Holmes' podcast. "It's sad when someone loses their job. It's sad when someone leaves a profession they love, for whatever reason. And given all that we've been through, it's just sad that this is how the story ended. None of us wanted things to go the way they did."

Holmes, 46, agreed, as he shared that the couple have received texts referring to Godwin's exit as if "justice has been served," but that is not how they feel.

"No. Not at all," Robach said. "And I think it just opens up that wound of, you know, what we had hoped could have been that wasn't. And so, yes, when we were let go, it wasn't that we wanted her to be let go, but you just saw how it was all unfolding. And you knew the sentiment in the building, and it's a sad morning. That's the best way for me to describe it."

Robach admitted that the news has her "re-feeling all of the things I felt that day when we were told not to come into work and then, especially, the day when we realized we would never be returning to ABC News." She added that Godwin's departure "brings back all of those feelings of sadness and frustration and just — I have a general sentiment of just feeling like it just didn't have to happen like this."

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Holmes offered some insight into the decision, though, as he said that Godwin's exit after three years at the helm of the network "didn't come as a surprise" to them — or others familiar with the workings of ABC.

"In fact, when we left in February of 2023, when we left the network, if we were betting folks, it was only a matter of when she was going to leave, and maybe not even how she was going to leave," he stated. "We were talking about this the other day with someone. Nobody necessarily leaves pretty when they leave that network. So it didn't come as a surprise to us."

Godwin, though, was "the person who made the phone call at 6 a.m. on Dec. 5, 2022 telling us not to come to work," Holmes continued, referring to the initial decision to remove him and Robach from the air on GMA3 after their romance was made public. In January 2023, the network officially pulled the pair off the series.

"We never got back on the air at ABC News," Holmes said, adding that Godwin "was very central in everything that ended up taking place with us."

But Robach said she harbors no ill-will towards Godwin. "It's interesting because I think maybe many of you — and certainly some of my friends and family — expected me or us to feel some sort of vindication or that we felt like justice was served now that Kim Godwin is gone. But that is not the case," Robach said. "And I wanna make that very, very clear. I didn't — and we didn't — feel any of those things."

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The news of Godwin's exit from ABC comes just days after PEOPLE confirmed that former ABC News and Good Morning America meteorologist Rob Marciano was no longer in his position at the company.

On the May 2 episode of the Amy & T.J. Podcast, the couple weighed in on Marciano's exit, too, as they remarked that "nobody leaves ABC News in a pretty fashion," a sentiment they echoed on the May 7 episode.

“It's a tough situation. We have walked down that road and it's not an easy one," Robach said of their former colleague's departure. "And I think he might still be going through a divorce. So we know what it's like to have your entire life upended, career and personal life … And we both have known Rob for a long time.”

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Since PEOPLE confirmed Marciano's exit on Tuesday, April 30, people who have worked with the 55-year-old have spoken to PEOPLE of his alleged temper, while other sources have defended him as "professional" and "positive."

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