Uzo Aduba didn’t think she’d find love until she met her husband

Uzo Aduba is happily married to filmmaker Robert Sweeting as of 2020, although at one point she thought she would never find love.

Aduba, 43, said People Magazine she was ready to offer up after she began dating people in New York at age 30, which at times resembled “Sex and the City.”

“I was sure it just wasn’t going to happen because it was tough out there on the streets,” said the mother of 10-month-old daughter Adaiba. “I just accepted that this was my story, that I had waited too long or not given it enough attention because I was focused on my career or all these other me-me things.”

The award-winning actress then met Sweeting at a rooftop bar in Midtown Manhattan.

“He made me feel safe,” she continued. “I felt safe to be my whole self around him—not the best part of me, all of me, my weaknesses, my frailties, my weak, ugly parts. I felt safe enough to show him that. And when he saw that, he still loved me. I never, and still never, doubted that he loved me.”

The couple tied the knot in September 2020 in a small garden ceremony at Aduba’s sister’s home. They selected the intimate gathering for his or her wedding so her mother, who died later that yr, could watch them wed after being diagnosed with pancreatic cancer.

“At first, I was really sad that the wedding was going to be the way it was going to be,” Aduba noted. “But the moment we started in my sister’s backyard, it was perfect. It was more than enough.”

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Now, looking back on it, Aduba said she realized that “things happen in their own time, as they should.”

Aduba and Sweeting welcomed their first child together, a daughter, in December 2023.

“My daughter. I have never fallen in love so fast and so deeply in my life,” she wrote within the caption to post on Instagram including two photos of the “In Treatment” star in a hospital gown, cradling her newborn. “I really don’t know what to say, guys. My heart is so full. Thank you, God.”

Coming out in faith with Sweeting wasn’t her only healing moment on her journey of love. Aduba also told People in regards to the time she texted all of her ex-flames, except one, to inform them that “they hurt me and I didn’t deserve it.”

“Every woman should do it,” she said, adding: “We’re letting them get away with murder. I allowed myself to be overlooked and to some extent mistreated. I deserve more respect and it’s okay to insist on it and point it out when it’s not being received.”

The actress opens up about her dating history and more in her memoir, “The Road Is Good: How a Mother’s Strength Became a Daughter’s Purpose,” out Tuesday from Viking.