DeVon Franklin went straight to dating apps after his 2022 divorce from actress Meagan Good.
In advance of the release on Thursday (Jan. 29) of his new Audible original Be True: My Journey from Breakdown to Breakthrough, the producer and motivational speaker posted a portion of a live performance to his TikTok Stories. In it, he looked back on his divorce from Good.
The couple was married for ten years before splitting. Last August, Franklin married fitness coach Maria Castillo. Earlier that year, Good married actor Jonathan Majors.
In the clip, visible below, Franklin recalled the "dilemma" of leaving his first marriage and said he was "struggling" with the decision.
"Even thinking of the question was terrifying," Franklin told the crowd. "Even having the thought put me in a state of disbelief and absolute fear. I never thought that I would contemplate it. Better yet, I never thought that I would even do it. But now I'm at the edge of considering it."
Franklin added that following through with the divorce would make him consider himself a "failure," and would be a "sacrifice and death" of the persona that his marriage-minded fans had come to respect. In 2015, Franklin and Good published a relationship and self-help book, The Wait, about reasons to abstain from sex until marriage.
The entertainment producer later recalled going on dating apps after his divorce was finalized and joked that he needed his swipe to be blessed.
"I wasn't looking for marriage. I was just looking to explore and have a good time and enjoy myself," Franklin said.
Elsewhere, Franklin recalled being "ghostfished," a combination of ghosted and catfished, when he talked to a woman on Snapchat for close to five months but never met her in person.
He also recalled a time where he fell for a woman's thirst trap photo, then criticized her for leaving it up after they began a relationship. He said that it was a "red flag" that the woman continued to post suggestive pictures.
"I just found it very interesting that I'm out here decluttering my DMs like a good boy, per her request, and meanwhile she's got the storefront looking like buy-one, slide in free," he said.
During an interview on Cam Newton's Funky Friday podcast last October, Franklin recalled temporarily living in a Los Angeles hotel for a year after his divorce.