Lupita Nyong'o is aware of the reasons why some people would think she and Janelle Monáe were dating.
They became friends after meeting at the Met Gala in 2014, when Nyong'o was still relatively unknown in the entertainment industry and had just won an Oscar for her role in "12 Years a Slave."
“This world is still extremely new to me and unbelievable,” Nyong’o recalled in an interview with Rolling Stone magazine.
“[Janelle] came up to me and just gave me the realest hug,” Nyong’o said. “I think we may have swayed to the music. She was just like, ‘I’m so proud of you, and just thank you for being you.’”
In 2018, Monáe talked about identifying as pansexual and later revealed that she is nonbinary and uses the pronouns she/her and they/them.
“She has magnetism that they were obviously picking up on,” Nyong’o told Rolling Stone about speculation the two had a past romance. “She is that enigmatic. I was not surprised. And I don’t mind being associated with her in any capacity.”
While they are just close friends (Nyong’o has been dating television host and designer Selema Masekela), Nyong’o said there’s still things she doesn’t know about Monáe.
“Just because you’re a close friend of hers doesn’t mean you get to know everything about her,” Nyong’o said. “I think that’s what makes her interesting as an artist.”
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