Actress Cecily Strong is struggling to come to terms with the death of her cousin while alone in quarantine after her new boyfriend tested positive for COVID-19.
The Saturday Night Live comedienne admitted the coronavirus crisis has been tough to navigate emotionally as she opened up about her personal heartache in a candid essay for Vulture.com.
In the new article, Strong reveals her “little cousin” Owen died of brain cancer earlier this year, and she was still grappling with the tragedy in March, just as her romance with a man named Jack started to turn serious. “At first I thought it was so difficult to meet someone right as I was losing someone I loved so much,” she writes. “I knew he’d have to be patient with me.