{"id":286945,"date":"2020-01-22T19:01:18","date_gmt":"2020-01-23T02:01:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/b1114821"},"modified":"2020-01-22T19:01:18","modified_gmt":"2020-01-23T02:01:18","slug":"lena-waithe-and-wife-alana-mayo-split","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/music-news\/lena-waithe-and-wife-alana-mayo-split\/","title":{"rendered":"Lena Waithe and Wife Alana Mayo Split"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/akns-images.eonline.com\/eol_images\/Entire_Site\/2020022\/rs_600x600-200122173429-600.lena-waithe-alana-mayo.ct.012220.jpg?fit=around|600:467&amp;crop=600:467;center,top&amp;output-quality=90\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"photo-txt-0\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"36.93485915493\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-photo-text\" readability=\"19.151408450704\">\n<p><strong>Lena Waithe<\/strong> and <strong>Alana Mayo<\/strong> have decided to go their separate ways, E! News has exclusively learned.<\/p>\n<p>The news comes <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1093724\/lena-waithe-reveals-she-secretly-married-her-longtime-love\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">two months after announcing they secretly married<\/a>. A statement was shared with E! News about their decision to split.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;After careful thought and consideration, we have decided to part ways,&#8221; a joint statement from their reps read. &#8220;We have nothing but support for one another and ask that you respect our privacy during this time.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Back in November, the Emmy winner told<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/ellen_degeneres\"> Ellen DeGeneres<\/a><\/strong>&nbsp;and <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/john_legend\">John Legend<\/a><\/strong> on&nbsp;<em>The Ellen DeGeneres Show<\/em> that she and Mayo tied the knot in a private ceremony at a San Francisco courthouse.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We didn&#8217;t make any announcements or a big&#8230; We went to San Francisco. We went to the courthouse,&#8221; Lena explained at the time. &#8220;Got married right in front of [late gay rights activist and politician] <strong>Harvey Milk<\/strong>&#8216;s bust.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"text-2\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"59\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-text-only\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"8\">\n<p>&#8220;[It was] her idea, as all good things are,&#8221; she continued. &#8220;And she was just driving and she saw the courthouse and she said, \u2018We should get married there.&#8217; And I said, \u2018Cool, I&#8217;m down.'&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"video-int-txt-3\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"32\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-video-text\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"4\">\n<p>The couple announced their engagement in 2017, and had been dating for quite some time before taking their romance to the next level.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"tune-in-4\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"34\">\n<p class=\"tune-in__text\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\">Watch <i>E! News<\/i> weekday mornings at 7 a.m.! And don&#8217;t miss our <i>2020 Grammys: E!&#8217;s Inside Guide<\/i> special Wednesday, Jan. 22 at 11 p.m. for a Grammy Awards preview!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1114821\/lena-waithe-and-wife-alana-mayo-split?cmpid=rss-000000-rssfeed-365-topstories&#038;utm_source=eonline&#038;utm_medium=rssfeeds&#038;utm_campaign=rss_topstories\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: E! Online<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lena Waithe and Alana Mayo have decided to go their separate ways, E! News has exclusively learned. The news comes two months after announcing they secretly married. A statement was shared with E! News about their decision to split. &#8220;After careful thought and consideration, we have decided to part ways,&#8221; a joint statement from their [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-286945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-music-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-10-04 00:25:52","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KIDN - The Lift FM","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286945","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=286945"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286945\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=286945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=286945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=286945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}