Devon Franklin, the ex-husband of actor Meagan Good, has revealed he spent one year in a West Hollywood hotel following their divorce.
The film producer and motivational speaker was married to Good from 2012 to 2022 and tied the knot with fitness coach Maria Castillo in August. Appearing as a guest on the latest episode of Cam Newton's Funky Friday podcast, Franklin reflected on the breakdown of his first marriage.
Around the 18-minute mark of the video below, Franklin said he began to struggle to "see the future" at the time his marriage with Good began to crumble.
"But I knew that where I was and kind of what was going on in the turmoil I was in that I had to do something," he told Newton. "So part of the choice and the process began at that point in time making a decision to do something, making a decision that I believe would be in my best interest by emotional health, mental health, physical health, all of spiritual health."
Franklin added that he had to "sit" in his post-divorce grief after moving out of his home with Good. "I ended up living in a hotel for about a year by myself right there in West Hollywood overlooking Sunset Boulevard," he continued. "And I would come in and there was a chair that overlooked Sunset as people would be driving up and down. And I would just sit there and I would look out the window and say, 'How did I get here?'"
Instead of putting the blame on his ex-wife, Franklin looked at the divorce as an incentive to better himself.
"I had to retrace my steps, and so often it's very easy when you go through something to point to the other person and say, 'Well what they didn't do,' but that really doesn't do anybody any good," he said. "And I realized that's not going to help me. I got to look at, 'Well what did I do? What was my role here? What are the things that are opportunities for growth? But part of it was just sitting in it and feeling it and not being afraid to see."
Good, who married actor Jonathan Majors earlier this year, claimed on The Jason Lee Show that it was Franklin who wanted to end the marriage.
"We grew from it," she told Lee. "I don’t think that any time was wasted. I think that everything in life, every single season, you do learn so much, and you do grow so much, and you give so much, and you do get so much."
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