U.S. Sen. Cory Booker and actress-activist Rosario Dawson have ended their two-plus-year relationship, long-rumored reports confirm.
While reported in Marie Claire last fall, the split was only just confirmed to People by a source close to Booker, a New Jersey Democrat and onetime presidential candidate. The source told People that while the two aren’t dating any more, they remain good friends. Neither was commenting to media on Sunday.
Booker, 52, and Dawson, 42, had been together since sometime in 2019, months after first meeting. The night they reconnected, they “talked for hours and hours,” Booker told The Washington Post that year.
The two both have busy schedules and are frequently apart, and apparently weekly meet-ups, Facetime calls and cozy phone calls with Booker reading to Dawson and sending her music proved no match for the couple’s active schedules, even after Dawson moved into his New Jersey home in May 2021, after waiting for the initial pandemic wave to subside.
Before that, they had been quarantining separately, as Dawson was spending much of lockdown with her at-risk parents, including her father, who is battling pancreatic cancer.
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