As Regina King continues to navigate grief following her son’s suicide in 2022, the Oscar-winning actor reveals how she found solace and community with a group of fellow grieving mothers.

“One of the things I’ve learned on this journey is that gratitude and sadness are not mutually exclusive; they’re always working at the same time,” the star of Netflix’s Shirley says in an interview for Harper’s Bazaar’s April 2024 cover story. “I just have to navigate this. Sometimes it’s minute by minute.”