Kenyan-Canadian actress Lupita Nyong’o has confirmed splitting up with her boyfriend, TV host Selema Masekela, after 1 year together.

The actress shared this news via her Instagram page, without naming her former partner in the write-up.

She stated that she needed to express this truth publicly and distance herself from someone who she could no longer truth.

Lupita also noted how she had thought of running into the shadows and hide, until she regains her strength and come to the light.

But later decided that discussing her heartbreak could give solace, support and wisdom to anyone who has suffered similar fate.

“I find myself in a season of heartbreak because of a love suddenly and devastatingly extinguished by deception. I am tempted to run into the shadows and hide, only to return to the light when I have regained my strength enough for me to say, “Whatever, my life is better this way.”

“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,” she wrote.

The beautiful and supper talented actress stated that a tender heart ultimately gives birth to fearlessness, expressing her hope that this belief holds truth.

She said, “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 and hoping that the knowledge of my experience might be useful to someone else out there experiencing the grip of heartbreak”.