New Jersey Senator Cory Booker & Rosario Dawson Quietly Break Up After 3 Years Of Dating

"The distance made it difficult," one source close to the former couple spilled to the outlet. Booker has been holed up in Washington the past year working on legislation in the Senate. Dawson has been busy filming Clerks III and a rumored new Star Wars project.

News of the couple’s breakup comes only months after it was revealed they decided to take the next step in their relationship. In May, Dawson told PEOPLE that she decided to move into Booker's Newark home. She also shared that she made the drive from California to New Jersey with her father, and how it felt to make the big move.

"It was an amazing adventure," she told the outlet. "My family are all in New York. It felt really beautiful and good to start a new chapter of my life in the driver's seat."

The couple reportedly met at a political event in the fall of 2017 but did not become romantically linked until early 2019.

"So, we met again, and I had one of those really awkward experiences,” Booker told CNN in March 2019. “I’m a United States senator, and I had to get up the courage to walk up to her and ask her for her phone number. And being on TV doesn’t make me nervous, but that made me nervous."

That same month, Dawson confirmed their relationship.

"I am just grateful to be with someone that I respect and love and admire so much,” she said at the time. "He's an amazing human being. It's good to spend some time together when we can."

Although the two have broken up, a source close to the former couple is confident that the breakup was amicable, and they remain good friends.