(ThySistas.com) Meagan Good has lived most of a long career in front of a camera, yet the defining stretch of this chapter happened away from it. Long before the actress found love again, there was a marriage to grieve and a self to rebuild. Divorce rearranges a woman from the inside, and for all the headlines about the man Meagan is married to today, the story that actually matters is the one about what the healing took out of her and what it gave back. That kind of work rarely shows up in a gossip column. It’s probably the most important thing she’s done in years.
Meagan Good and her former husband, DeVon Franklin, separated in August 2021 after nearly a decade together, publicly announcing the end of their marriage that December. Their divorce was finalized the following year. Those are the tidy facts. What they leave out is that she lived the entire thing in public, which is its own peculiar cruelty, because the culture doesn’t give a woman much room to come apart with any grace. We tend to like our comeback stories cleaned up. The glow-up photos, the confident return to a red carpet, some visible sign that she bounced back stronger. Hardly anybody has patience for the long middle, that difficult stretch when a woman second-guesses every choice that brought her here. Some mornings, she can barely recognize the face looking back from the mirror.
Meagan didn’t rush past that middle. Across interviews over the years, she kept circling back to faith, and to the slow, unglamorous job of putting a life in order again. That struggle is familiar to a lot of Sistas. Plenty of us learned early to be the family’s steady one, burying our own pain so the house keeps running. When a marriage ends, it can feel like proof you failed at something nobody ever said you had to carry alone. A lot of women wind up ashamed without ever saying so. Good has talked openly about refusing that shame and treating the close of the marriage as a starting point instead.
Healing like this doesn’t happen in order. You’ll string together a steady week or two and start thinking you’ve turned a corner. Then some little thing knocks you sideways, and you’re crying in the car again. For some Black women, this is where therapy becomes part of the healing process, which can be its own hurdle. A good number of us were raised to carry our troubles to the Lord and nobody else, so paying a stranger to sit and listen can feel wrong at first. Faith and a therapist were never really at odds, though. Good has said more than once that her faith is what held her up, and plenty of us are figuring out there’s room for the prayer and the professional help both.
Confidence is the next thing divorce tends to shred. A woman comes out of one asking brutal questions about herself. Did she want too much? Was the problem really hers, or had the relationship never been what it seemed? Good has talked about finding her way back to her own worth, about walking into rooms that used to make her shrink and refusing to shrink in them anymore. Some of that showed up right there in the work. Good co-produced and starred in Tyler Perry’s 2024 film Divorce in the Black. She and costar Cory Hardrict connected over their own divorces and wound up crying together off camera. There’s something disarming about that, two seasoned actors letting a role pry them open rather than bracing against it.
Then comes trust, probably the hardest part of the whole business. When a person you built a life around turns into a stranger, the thought of opening up to somebody new feels like signing on for a second round of heartbreak. Good began dating Jonathan Majors after her divorce, and their relationship drew considerable public scrutiny, especially after his 2023 convictions for misdemeanor assault and harassment involving a former girlfriend. That history deserves acknowledgment rather than being dismissed as celebrity gossip. Still, the larger question of learning to trust somebody again is one a lot of divorced women will recognize. Choosing to open your heart after heartbreak takes more guts than people give it credit for. At some point you’ve got to decide that what happened to you before isn’t a life sentence, that one painful ending doesn’t get the final word on everything that comes next. The couple married in March 2025 and celebrated their first anniversary a year later. Good shared the occasion publicly, expressing her happiness in this new chapter.
What Meagan is up to now says plenty about how far the healing carried. Good has kept building as a producer, which is arguably the real headline of this entire stretch. Earlier this year, her film Girl Dad premiered at the American Black Film Festival in Miami Beach, bringing together a cast that included Marsai Martin and Courtney B. Vance. Jamie Foxx was among the producers, while Good was listed as an executive producer. Her name appears on both sides of the credits, another reminder that this Black woman has spent years making moves beyond the camera. That kind of creative control matters. She’s not simply waiting around for somebody to hand her the next big role. She’s helping shape the stories Hollywood puts on screen, building on a career that was already well established before her marriage ended. The next act belongs to Meagan, and she’s continuing to make it her own.
None of this should read as a formula where the healing pays out in a new husband at the end. A great many women do the work and choose to stay single, and that’s its own kind of win. The order of operations is what matters. You tend to your own recovery before anything else, and whatever happens on the romance front comes second to that. Go about it that way and you show up to the next relationship on steadier footing, less likely to fall for something that only looks like love because it feels familiar. And if nobody comes along, you haven’t lost a thing. You got yourself back, which was the whole assignment to begin with.
Sistas deserve the whole story, the long middle included and not airbrushed out of the frame. Good lived hers in plain view, the ugly parts right there with the wedding photos. If you’re a Black woman reading this from somewhere in the thick of it, wondering whether the weight ever lets up, it does. Not on your schedule, and not because some man finally shows up to haul you out of it. It lets up because you keep doing the slow, tiring work of getting back to yourself. We cannot know every private step that brought Meagan to this new chapter, but the lesson remains bigger than any marriage. A woman’s healing belongs to her, and finding herself again is worth celebrating whether another love comes along or not.
Staff Writer; Raven Jones
Raven writes about music, relationships, and the everyday ups and downs of Black women… She keeps it honest, encourages other sistas, and can be reached at RavenJ@ThySistas.com.