No, Cynthia Erivo Is Not Sporting an Engagement Ring on the 2025 Grammys: Unique Supply

Opposite to rumors swirling on-line, Cynthia Erivo didn’t put on an engagement ring to the Grammys this yr.

After the Depraved actress, 38, wore a big sparkler on that finger on the Feb. 2 ceremony, followers speculated that she could also be engaged to longtime companion Lena Waithe, however the ring was only a ring, a supply tells PEOPLE — no strings connected.

Truly, all of Erivo’s Grammys jewellery — save for one ring — was loaned, and she will solely put on the equipment on sure fingers due to the adornments on her nails, the insider notes. (The performer is identified for her elaborate manicures, and he or she mentioned her celestial fashion on the Grammys took 5 hours to create!)

Whereas her Depraved costar Ariana Grande opted to not attend the 2025 Grammys, Erivo not solely attended in a customized Louis Vuitton robe, but additionally took the stage with Herbie Hancock to carry out a touching tribute to late music legend Quincy Jones, who died in November 2024 at age 91.

To honor the music icon, the two-time Academy Award nominee lended her highly effective vocals to a heartfelt rendition of Frank Sinatra’s “Fly Me to the Moon.”

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Erivo’s companion, Waithe — an Emmy Award-winning author, producer and actor — has been cheering the star on as she soaks up the success of Depraved: Half One. Waithe, 40, attended the premiere of the Jon M. Chu-directed stage-to-screen adaptation and, after it hit theaters in November, highlighted Erivo’s acclaimed efficiency within the movie on social media.

The couple additionally hung out collectively within the lead-up to the field workplace hit’s launch at numerous occasions, together with the US Open Tennis Championships in September, on the Academy Museum of Movement Footage gala in October and on the Tony Awards in June.

The pair is often fairly non-public about their relationship and private lives normally, a choice that Erivo elaborated on in a current interview.

Whereas chatting with Vainness Honest in November (in a joint interview with Grande, 31) the vocalist mentioned she’s “very tight-lipped with my relationships, ’trigger I don’t suppose that my relationship is for anybody else however for me.”

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“I spend a lot of my life sharing the whole lot — whether or not it’s my work or my soul or my life in speeches,” Erivo informed the journal. “I feel I give sufficient of myself that I’m allowed to maintain one thing for me.”

“And who is aware of, possibly I’ll change my thoughts in some unspecified time in the future,” she added on the time. “However, I feel it’s okay. It’s sufficient for individuals to know that I’m a queer one who may have relationships with males or ladies or neither.”