A difficult time. Demi Lovato and Wilmer Valderrama announced their split just hours after the “Confident” singer attended her great-grandmother’s burial on Friday, June 3.
Lovato, 23, shared a black-and-white video of the funeral procession followed by a photo of a casket being lowered into the ground. “I love you Mimaw,” she captioned the heartbreaking shot on Snapchat.
Earlier in the week, the Disney alum announced that her great-grandmother had died at age 93. “This morning I lost my world and the world’s most special woman,” she wrote on Instagram on Sunday, May 29. “I miss her more than words can even describe. There is an emptiness in my heart that only her spirit can fill and I pray that I will feel her by my side every single day until we meet again.”
Following the funeral on Friday, Lovato posted another pic on Snapchat of rain against her car window. “Even the sky is crying today,” she wrote.
Just hours later, the “Cool for the Summer” songstress and Valderrama, 36, shared a joint statement on their respective Instagram accounts to announce their separation.
“After almost 6 loving and wonderful years together, we have decided to end our relationship,” the pair announced. “This was an incredibly difficult decision for both of us, but we have realized more than anything that we are better as friends. We will always be supportive of one another. Thank you to everyone who has offered us kindness and support over the years.”
The couple first met in 2010 but initially kept their relationship under wraps before going public around 2014.
“He’s this amazing salt of the Earth, sweet, hardworking guy and she just isn’t the right person for him,” a source tells Us. Another source adds that Lovato has been “really stressed” over the past few weeks.
Lovato and close pal Nick Jonas are set to kick off their co-headlining Future Now Tour across North America later this month.
