The Oscar-winning actress additionally expressed gratitude for her family and friends on Thanksgiving
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Lupita Nyong’o and her cat Yoyo
Lupita Nyong’o is taking inventory of what’s vital this Thanksgiving.
The Black Panther actress, 40, shared an Instagram publish Thursday that includes her cat Yoyo, through which she laid out the various issues for which she’s grateful.
“Today, I feel grateful. Grateful for peace: it is not guaranteed. Grateful for the truth: even when it has hurt. Grateful for tears: they have washed away so much pain,” she wrote. “Grateful for therapy: it has kept me sane.”
In the video, Nyong’o performed with Yoyo whereas blocks of textual content crammed in round her and instrumental music performed. She went on to precise gratitude for different elements of her life, together with her household and mates, and naturally, her cat.
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“Grateful for family: they have been so kind. Grateful for friends: they have been so present. Grateful for new experiences: they have shifted my energy. Grateful for the ocean: for being constant and ever-changing,” she wrote. “And grateful for Yoyo: he has kept my heart open and tender.
“Through it all, I am grateful,” she captioned the post.
The introspective post comes just over a month after the Academy Award-winning actress announced her split from boyfriend Selema Masekela in a candid Instagram post.
“At this moment, it is necessary for me to share a personal truth and publicly dissociate myself from someone I can no longer trust,” she wrote at the time. “I find myself in a season of heartbreak because of a love suddenly and devastatingly extinguished by deception.”
The star said that she shared the personal news in order to “keep it 💯, and [hoped] that the knowledge of my experience might be useful to someone else out there experiencing the grip of heartbreak who is poised to try and escape from the pain and miss out on the wisdom that comes from it. #Breakup.”
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Lupita Nyong’o in November.
Days later, she announced she’d adopted Yoyo, writing on Instagram that while she’d long been afraid of cats, she was ready to be open to “change and new possibilities.”
She defined {that a} buddy (who she later revealed to be Tony-nominated sound designer Palmer Herreran) helped her by means of the method and even accompanied her on visits to a number of animal shelters.
Initially, Nyong’o was simply fostering Yoyo, however realized she couldn’t give him up simply three days in.
“I by no means understood folks whose telephones have been stuffed with images and movies of their pets — now I’m a kind of folks! It could appear to be I saved Yoyo, however actually, Yoyo is saving me,” she wrote.
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