Lupita Nyong'o Opens Up About What’s Helping Her Through 'Heartbreak'
Paul Morigi/Getty Images for DisneyLupita Nyong’o is turning to friend Palmer Hefferan for support in the wake of her split from Selema Masekela. “Recently, when my life was turned upside-down from heartbreak, Palmer flew in swiftly to be by my side and help me through the hardest days as I adjusted to my new reality,” Nyong’o, 40, wrote via Instagram on Thursday, November 2. “She made me delicious meals, she found me therapeutic activities to get my mind off things, she cried with me and made me laugh until I cried a more joyful kind of tear.” Nyong’o noted that her longtime pal “did not tire of being of service to me” and even helped her get her first pet, a cat named Yoyo. “Now every time I look at him and cuddle with him, I am reminded of the selfless love my sister from another mister showed me,” she added. The pair met at drama school and found “kindred spirits” in one another after connecting over their love for being in the kitchen, Nyong’o continued, sharing that while “the be
Lupita Nyong’o is turning to friend Palmer Hefferan for support in the wake of her split from Selema Masekela.
“Recently, when my life was turned upside-down from heartbreak, Palmer flew in swiftly to be by my side and help me through the hardest days as I adjusted to my new reality,” Nyong’o, 40, wrote via Instagram on Thursday, November 2. “She made me delicious meals, she found me therapeutic activities to get my mind off things, she cried with me and made me laugh until I cried a more joyful kind of tear.”
Nyong’o noted that her longtime pal “did not tire of being of service to me” and even helped her get her first pet, a cat named Yoyo. “Now every time I look at him and cuddle with him, I am reminded of the selfless love my sister from another mister showed me,” she added.
The pair met at drama school and found “kindred spirits” in one another after connecting over their love for being in the kitchen, Nyong’o continued, sharing that while “the beauty of the friendship is that it is never about evening the score” she has “every intention to try.”
Nyong’o announced last month that she and Masekela, 52, had called it quits after less than one year of dating. “At this moment, it is necessary for me to share a personal truth and publicly dissociate myself from someone I can no longer trust,” the actress wrote via Instagram at the time. “I find myself in a season of heartbreak because of a love suddenly and devastatingly extinguished by deception.”
Nyong’o shared that she was “tempted to run into the shadows and hide” and return once she “regained” her strength but ultimately decided to be honest about her feelings.
“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,” she continued. “The promise, they say, is that a tender heart is what gives birth to fearlessness. I hope it’s true … I share this to keep it 
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