“Sandra has had arough few weeksbut is trying to focus on herself after years of putting others first," a source tells PEOPLE in this week’s issue.
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Andrew Cuomo and Sandra Lee in 2016.Amy Sussman/AP/Shutterstock
The Emmy winner, 54, who dated Cuomo, 63, for 14 years, traveled from her new Malibu home to Arizona to spend Christmas with her family. She shared a dispatch from the Grand Canyon State on Sunday that she was out doing some last-minute holiday shopping with loved ones.
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Before making the journey to the West Coast, Lee admitted she “cried and cried” during her final moments at the Westchester County, N.Y. estate, dubbed “Lily Pond.”
Sandra Lee/Instagram; Inset: Leon Bennett/FilmMagic
And the tears kept coming when she flew to California. The cookbook author “cried all the way home,” sheInstagrammed Tuesday, but she has since embraced her “Aunty Sandy Claus” persona and shared with followers tips for holiday baking, decorating cookies and gift-wrapping, which Leecalled “a form of mediation.”
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“Getting back to decorating and crafting is a great way to spend the day,” shewrote on InstagramSaturday.
source: people.com
