Acclaimed Kenyan Hollywood actress and Oscar winner Lupita Nyong’o has broken up with her boyfriend Joshua Jackson barely a year after the couple began dating. Her confirmation comes just days after Jackson was recently spotted out with model Nastassja Roberts.
Lupita confirmed they had parted ways in an interview with Harper’s Bazaar UK
“If I’m ever lucky enough to be in a romantic relationship again, it will be because of him (her cat Yoyo).”
The actress claims she had given up on dating but it’s Yoyo who gave her a reason to never give up on being in a relationship.
“I was ready to close that door and lock and bolt it. He (Yoyo) made sure my heart stayed open,” she said.
Lupita’s comments come two weeks after Joshua sparked split speculation when he was spotted in New York City with Ms Roberts.
Lupita adopted Yoyo from the Best Friends Animal Society in October 2023, the same month she and Joshua were spotted together at a Janelle Monáe concert in Los Angeles while both were dealing with simultaneous public breakups.
A few months later, the couple seemingly confirmed their relationship with a PDA-packed trip to Mexico, where they were photographed holding hands and kissing while celebrating Lupita’s 41st birthday.
At the time, fans began celebrating Lupita and Joshua as the newest Hollywood couple on the scene. And even Joshua’s ex, Jodie Turner-Smith, weighed in on the apparent relationship, giving the couple her blessing in an interview with The Cut.
“Good for them. We need happiness to co-parent peacefully,” Jodie told the outlet in June, referring to her and Joshua’s 4-year-old daughter.
“I hope they’re happy and that it benefits us as a family.”
As for Lupita, before her romance with Joshua, she dated sports commentator Selema Masekela for about a year before announcing their breakup.
“It is necessary for me to share a personal truth and publicly distance myself from someone I can no longer trust,” she shared in an Instagram Story in October 2023. “I find myself in a season of heartbreak because of a love that was suddenly and devastatingly extinguished by deception.”And while she doesn’t regret sharing her feelings, Lupita now wants to move forward and keep her relationships – breakups and otherwise – out of the spotlight.
“It’s hard enough to go through heartbreak in private,” she noted.”When the world has an image of you about someone else, it prolongs the healing process because the memory is emblazoned in public.”
