Ben Cohen, co-founder of Ben & Jerry's, poses with a sign as he protests against the Magnum Ice Cream Company earlier this month. Shokirie Clarke/Handout/Reuters New York —

Hours after Ben & Jerry’s co-founder Jerry Greenfield resigned from the ice cream company he founded nearly five decades ago, his former business partner, Ben Cohen, revealed to CNN why Jerry felt he had to leave.

“Jerry has a really big heart, and this conflict with Unilever was really kind of tearing him apart. So he felt like he had no choice to resign,” Cohen told CNN’s Vanessa Yurkevich Wednesday. “Jerry’s kind of sad that it’s come to this, but part of him is feeling a sense of relief that he’s no longer in this intense conflict.”

Earlier Wednesday, Greenfield shared on social media that he was quittin

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