Joshua Jackson and Lupita Nyong’o are dating after respective breakups
After their respective breakups, Joshua Jackson And Lupita Nyong’o started seeing each other.
“Joshua and Lupita have only been dating for a very short time. They are focusing on keeping their relationship under the radar as much as possible,” a source said exclusively We weekly of the couple’s “very normal” relationship, noting that they had only been dating for a short time.
The insider adds: “Although it’s only been a few weeks, they were friends before they started dating, so they have a very solid foundation for a relationship. It’s all new stuff, but so far it’s going very well.”
Jackson, 45, and Nyong’o, 40, are spending “as much time together as possible,” according to the source. “[They] enjoy typical things like shopping together, hanging out at home and watching movies, listening to music and just enjoying each other’s company,” the insider explains.
Nyong’o and Jackson’s relationship status first raised eyebrows in October when they were spotted out and about Janelle Monae‘s concert in California with a group of friends. Weeks earlier, they had each ended their long-term relationships.
Us confirmed this in October Jodie Turner Smith filed for divorce from Jackson after four years of marriage, claiming they separated on September 13 Dawson’s Creek alum filed his response last month, claiming that they actually broke up two weeks later on September 30.
Both Jackson and Turner-Smith, 37, cited irreconcilable differences as the reason for their divorce and have requested joint legal and physical custody of their daughter, 3.
Around the same time, Nyong’o revealed that she and her boyfriend were Selema Masekela had broken up after almost a year together.
“At this time it is necessary for me to share a personal truth and publicly distance myself from someone I can no longer trust…,” the actress wrote in a lengthy statement via Instagram on October 19. “I am in a season of heartbreak over a love that is suddenly and devastatingly extinguished by deception.”
Nyong’o added: “I choose to face the pain, cultivate the courage to see my life exactly as it is, and trust that this too shall pass. The promise, they say, is that a tender heart produces fearlessness. I hope it’s true… Hoping that the knowledge of my experience may be helpful to someone else who is experiencing the grip of heartbreak and who is on the verge of trying to escape the pain and missing the wisdom that comes from it comes forth.’
With reporting by Sarah Jones