Lola stood barefoot in sandals on the campus lawn, a light green sundress catching the late-afternoon sun and a graduation cap that read “Hold my poodle.” The cap — a wink at the film White Chicks — was the small, deliberate choice that made the day hers, even as her parents, Lisa Bonet and Jason Momoa, posed at her side.
The exes reunited Thursday at California State University in Los Angeles for their 18-year-old daughter’s high school graduation, appearing together in photos that showed the two sharing proud, domestic gestures rather than public spectacle. Momoa wore a pink button-down, cream pants and a matching beret; Bonet chose a white and orange sundress with balloon sleeves and small circular sunglasses. In one picture Momoa leaned down to kiss Lola on the cheek; in another he helped put a Hawaiian lei around her neck.
Those moments — a kiss, a lei, a family photograph on a campus quad — are the weight of the story: two people who once shared a household returning to the same frame for the milestone of their child. Lola, their eldest, was the focus: the cap’s joke, the sandals, the way both parents hovered close during the photos. The sight of them together carried its own measure: a reunited front for an 18-year-old’s commencement day at CSU Los Angeles on Thursday.
Bonet and Momoa’s history is compact but public. They first began dating in 2005 and secretly married in 2017; Momoa later said he had hoped to keep the nuptials private, remarking, “Some a—— leaked it.” The couple quietly separated in 2020 and went public with the split in 2022. That spring at the Oscars, Momoa told reporters, “We’re not back together, we’re family.”
The line has shadowed every appearance since: the couple separated but stayed visibly close enough to parent together. Their divorce filing came in January 2024; they waived rights to spousal support, agreed to split assets and filed for joint custody of Lola and their son, Nakoa-Wolf. Thursday’s photographs fit that record — organized, cooperative parenting rather than a rekindled romance.
Still, the reunion carries a tension that reporting can’t entirely resolve. The images are intimate but circumscribed: a kiss on the cheek, a lei placed around a neck, a shared photo op on a graduation day. The public evidence does not show whether Bonet and Momoa spent time together beyond the ceremony or whether the appearance marks any change in their private relationship. It does, however, underline a pattern Momoa described in 2022, when he framed the post-marriage relationship as family rather than courtship.
For Lola, the day was unmistakably hers. Her cap’s message — an in-joke made visible — and the two parents at her side turned a private milestone into a neatly photographed family scene. That the scene played out with the legal backdrop of a divorce filing and joint custody agreement matters: it demonstrates how the pair are managing the end of their marriage in public, keeping the ceremony focused on the child who reached adulthood.
The immediate consequence is practical: a photographed, coordinated co-parenting appearance that will likely stand as the public record of the graduation. What comes next is simpler than gossip might hope. There is no public sign from Thursday’s reunion that Bonet and Momoa are reconciling; the facts on file — the January 2024 divorce petition, waived financial claims, and joint custody agreement — point toward continued co-parenting rather than remarriage. For now, they reunited to mark Lola’s graduation and then left that milestone behind.
