Film producer, minister and author DeVon Franklin is learning a lot from the end of his marriage to Harlem star Meagan Good. One of those things is the importance of taking things moment by moment as he handles all the overwhelming changes that have come since walking away from their relationship.
“I wouldn’t wish divorce on anybody. It’s a weird thing,” he shared in a new interview with The Breakfast Club. He joined the program to promote his latest project, the movie Flamin’ Hot. “You’re used to being with somebody just on a friendship level, every day. And then you’re like, I don’t even talk to this person. It is the strangest, most difficult thing to navigate.”
He’s also gathered the importance of learning from the past versus having regrets about it. During the conversation, he was asked if, in retrospect, he regretted co-authoring the book The Wait: A Powerful Practice for Finding the Love of Your Life and the Life You Love since the woman he thought was the love of his life is now his ex-wife. They wrote the work in 2015, detailing their journey from courtship to marriage, which included abstaining from sex until they shared vows. That choice was, in theory, supposed to have led to a lasting union. He laughed at the idea that he would have any regret about the New York Times bestseller.
“No! Of course [not]. Of course I don’t regret that,” he said in response. “The value of delayed gratification is always going to be a message that’s going to help somebody and we put that message into the world from a place of love. That’s where we were. And I think that’s the challenge of life — to look in the rearview instead of the front view.”
The two were married in 2012 and made it almost 10 years before finalizing their divorce in 2022. In the March digital cover story with…
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