Current:Home > MarketsLupita Nyong'o Confirms Joshua Jackson Breakup -DataFinance
Lupita Nyong'o Confirms Joshua Jackson Breakup
View
Date:2025-04-14 22:50:20
There's no more "us" for Lupita Nyong'o and Joshua Jackson.
Less than a year after sparking romance rumors with the Dawson's Creek alum, the Oscar winner shared that she is single—with the only guy in her life being her cat Yoyo.
“My love for my cat is singular," Lupita said in a Harper's Bazaar UK interview published Oct. 9. "If I'm ever so lucky to be in a romantic relationship again, it'll be because of him."
She continued of the orange tomcat, "I was ready to shut that door and lock it and bolt it. He has ensured that my heart remains open."
Lupita adopted Yoyo from the Best Friends Animal Society in October 2023, the same month she and Joshua were spotted at a Janelle Monáe concert in Los Angeles together.
The couple took their relationship to the next level in March, when they went they traveled to Mexico for a PDA-filled vacation to celebrate Lupita's 41st birthday.
Prior to their romance, Joshua was married to model Jodie Turner-Smith for four years before she filed for divorce last year. In court documents, Jodie—who shares 4-year-old daughter with the Dr. Death actor—listed Sept. 13, 2023, as their official date of separation.
As for Lupita, before her romance with Joshua, she dated sports commentator Selema Masekela for about one year before announcing their breakup. "It is necessary for me to share a personal truth and publicly dissociate myself from someone I can no longer trust," she shared in an October 2023 Instagram Story. "I find myself in a season of heartbreak because of a love suddenly and devastatingly extinguished by deception."
Lupita added at the time, "But I am reminded that the magnitude of the pain I am feeling is equal to the measure of my capacity for love. And so, I am choosing to face the pain, cultivating the courage to meet my life exactly as it is, and trusting that this too shall pass."
Looking back, the Black Panther actress believes her breakup with Selema was an "opportunity to learn" about herself.
“You go through a lot of like, ‘Why? What were the signs? Why didn't I see them? And if I did, why didn’t I act on them?'" she told Harper's Bazaar UK. "Also, replaying moments and thinking, ‘Oh, I felt this apprehension, and I ignored it. Why did I ignore it?'"
And though she has no regrets over how she aired out her feelings, Lupita now wants to move forward with keeping her relationships—breakups and all—out of the spotlight.
"It’s hard enough to go through heartbreak privately," she noted. "When the world has an image of you in relation to someone else, it prolongs the healing process because the memory is emblazoned in the public domain."
For the latest breaking news updates, click here to download the E! News AppveryGood! (895)
Related
- Travis Hunter, the 2
- Dancing With the Stars' Sasha Farber Raises Eyebrows With Flirty Comment to Jenn Tran
- Eric Stonestreet says 'Modern Family' Mitch and Cam spinoff being rejected was 'hurtful'
- Kylie Jenner Shares Message for “Hot” Jordyn Woods
- IRS recovers $4.7 billion in back taxes and braces for cuts with Trump and GOP in power
- 3 Tufts men’s lacrosse players remain hospitalized with rare muscle injury
- Kmart’s blue light fades to black with the shuttering of its last full-scale US store
- How red-hot Detroit Tigers landed in MLB playoff perch: 'No pressure, no fear'
- Macy's says employee who allegedly hid $150 million in expenses had no major 'impact'
- Kylie Jenner Shares Message for “Hot” Jordyn Woods
Ranking
- Senate begins final push to expand Social Security benefits for millions of people
- Alleging Decades of Lies, California Sues ExxonMobil Over Plastic Pollution Crisis
- Climate solutions: 2 kinds of ocean energy inch forward off the Oregon coast
- Policing group says officers must change how and when they use physical force on US streets
- Nearly 400 USAID contract employees laid off in wake of Trump's 'stop work' order
- Cyrus Langston: Tips Of Using The Average Directional Index (ADX)
- Kristen Bell Says She and Dax Shepard Let Kids Lincoln, 11, and Delta, 9, Roam Around Theme Park Alone
- Brian Laundrie Attempts to Apologize to Gabby Petito’s Mom Through Psychic
Recommendation
The city of Chicago is ordered to pay nearly $80M for a police chase that killed a 10
Man pleads guilty to Michigan killing that stoked anti-immigrant campaign rhetoric
Clemen Langston: What Role Does the Option Seller Play?
Motel 6 owner Blackstone sells chain to Indian hotel startup for $525 million
Spooky or not? Some Choa Chu Kang residents say community garden resembles cemetery
FINFII: Embracing Regulation to Foster a Healthy Cryptocurrency Industry
Climate solutions: 2 kinds of ocean energy inch forward off the Oregon coast
Memphis man testifies that he and another man killed rapper Young Dolph