Romance Turned War: JoJo Todynho and Lucas Souza’s Marriage Unravels in a Storm of Scandal

JoJo Todynho, a famous Brazilian singer, once married a young army officer named Lucas Souza. Their romance played out in public, and it had a dramatic arc. They met in Mexico in 2021, and soon after, their relationship went serious. By January 2022, JoJo and Lucas had tied the knot in a wedding in Rio de Janeiro.

At the time, they were both very young — JoJo around 24–25 years old, and Lucas just 21. Their marriage, though, didn’t last long. After about ten months together, Lucas announced their separation on Instagram, calling it “the most difficult phase” of his life.

When he spoke out, Lucas said that their relationship had been “good up to a point,” but things changed. He expressed regret for choosing to end things publicly on social media: “I should have thought more about how I exposed us,” he said later.

JoJo, for her part, reacted with confusion — at first she denied that the marriage was over, saying she wasn’t aware of the breakup. But just a few weeks later, in late October 2022, Lucas posted again: this time, he said there was no turning back.

The fallout didn’t stop at a simple separation. In November 2023, JoJo publicly revealed what she claimed was a key reason for the breakup: she said she had seen conversations on Lucas’s phone between him and other men. She also alleged that he threatened to label her “homophobic” when she confronted him. According to JoJo, things became emotionally messy — she accused him of using her family (even her mother) in their fights.

Lucas’s team responded to her claims by saying he had admitted his mistakes before, and was deeply hurt by the way these “truths” were shared publicly.

Meanwhile, Lucas has spoken openly about how difficult it was for him to handle their relationship in the spotlight. He said he regretted how he handled the split and that the public exposure made things painfully worse.

Throughout this, JoJo also made personal statements about how the separation affected her. She shared that signing the divorce papers was painful — she posted a video of herself doing so, saying she did it “with a broken heart.”

Even after the breakup, both continued to face media scrutiny, and their story remains a topic in Brazilian celebrity news.