Laverne Cox is turning her dating history into stage material.
While promoting her upcoming one-woman show, "Gurrl, How Did I Get Here," set for July 28 at City Winery in New York City, Cox took to TikTok and shared that the show will delve into a past relationship that has raised a few eyebrows.
Smiling, she said, “My ex-boyfriend, when we met five years ago, at the height of the pandemic, he was 26 and I was 48. He was a blonde-haired, blue-eyed MAGA republican voter who is a New York City police officer.” She added that the pair kept their political differences out of the relationship.
That boyfriend—whose name she has never made public—entered the picture in 2020. By January 2021, Cox was comfortable enough to confirm the romance on The Ellen DeGeneres Show, noting they had been together for about six months.
She later referenced their 22-year age gap in interviews and didn’t frame the difference as an issue. During her 2024 Grammys red carpet work (including a moment with Billy Joel), Cox mentioned that her boyfriend was a big Billy Joel fan. The relationship ended sometime around April or May 2024, which she acknowledged during an appearance on The Viall Files podcast with Nick Viall.
That 2020–2024 run followed two earlier public relationships. Cox was first publicly linked to Jono Freedrix in 2016. Freedrix, a former high school teacher, serves as president of The Virtual Stage theater company in Vancouver. The exact end date for that relationship hasn’t been publicly announced.
In 2017, Cox began dating Kyle Draper, the CEO of a record label. She confirmed their split in 2019 via Instagram, bringing to a close what had been her most visible relationship at the time.
Now, Cox is packaging the whole arc—Freedrix, Draper, the younger NYPD boyfriend, and everything learned in between—into "Gurrl, How Did I Get Here." Fans who want the unfiltered story straight from Cox will get it live in New York on July 28.