Justine Lupe has a way of drawing you in. Over the course of an hour-and-a-half lunch at Gemma, a cozy Italian spot at The Bowery Hotel, I’ve already opened up about my parents’ divorce, the time I broke up with an ex over a tarot reading, and how much I miss my long-distance dog, who shares a nickname with her 14-year-old rescue, Lilly. Lupe partly blames it on her sign — as a Gemini, the actor says, “I’m probably a little too curious” — but it’s also because she can relate: She, too, has been through it, and now that she’s on the other side, she’s compelled to reassure me that there’s light at the end of the tunnel. “You’ll come to a point where you’ll go, ‘Oh, this is why it happened this way,’” she tells me. “Believe that.”

The 36-year-old Colorado native met her artist husband,

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