Sabrina Dhowre, the wife of actor Idris Elba, has tested positive for coronavirus. Dhowre shared the news with Oprah Winfrey as part of the media mogul’s Apple TV+ series Oprah Talks COVID-19. “As soon as I heard that Idris was potentially exposed, I was on my way anyway and I wanted to be with him, I think that’s an instinct as a wife you just want to go and take care,” Dhowre told Winfrey. “We didn’t change the way we interacted.
I could have made a decision to put myself in a separate room or maybe stay away and I’m sure people are making those decisions, they’re tough decisions to make.
But I made the decision to want to be with him and still touch him.” Elba announced last week that he’d tested positive for COVID-19 after finding out