Jonathan Majors Breaks His Silence: Love, Healing, and His Journey Forward

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00:00Over the last two years my first guest has been in and out of the headlines and many people including me

00:05We've been waiting to hear what he has to say so for his daytime talk show exclusive conversation

00:10He is here to talk about it all including his new movie magazine dreams. Please welcome

00:16Jonathan Majors

00:30Oh

00:45It's a lot of energy a lot of love over here

00:48We've been waiting for you. I have to tell you it's so many places that you could have gone

00:53Jonathan and you chose to come here and I so appreciate you coming here

00:59Being the family I just I appreciate you being here

01:03You know last time you were here was back. I believe it was March 2023 and you it's yeah two years ago

01:10you had started Marvel's you were in Marvel's Ant-Man and

01:14You came here and you were promoting Creed 3 and I just I remember it was like your career was just it was going so

01:23Great Jonathan and in a matter of weeks your entire world had changed your name was in the

01:28Headlines your legal battles were playing out in front of everybody

01:32And then you got convicted of assault and misdemeanor

01:36Misdemeanor assault and harassment now. Here's the thing

01:39I know that legally you cannot talk a lot about the details of what was going on

01:44But while it was going on and you were going through all of that, how were you feeling?

01:50Mmm, I think I just gotta say thank you so much for having me here

01:56And how's our feeling I was feeling I

02:01Mean chaos came. Yeah, you know and

02:05You talk about it, you know, you think about it, you know, oh you're in war now. Oh, you know, this is it

02:13You know, you're in the middle of it

02:15The the Bible talks about trials and tribulations, you know, but it's it's very different to find yourself in it

02:23and you look at the Bible differently and

02:27It's been a journey, you know

02:30my love is here, you know and and Megan and

02:34There were days when you know

02:36No surprises, you know laid up on the couch just wouldn't move

02:41Actually one block down from where we are now, it's funny when we drove in here I looked and I went oh that's

02:46That's the place. Yeah, you know

02:50That was hard

02:53But it's been um, it's been a healing journey it's been a moment of reflection it's been two years of growth healing

03:03Accountability about you know who I was where I was what I was doing. Yeah

03:10where my mind was that when my spirit was that and

03:13I

03:15Was saying I was saying to Megan and I'll conclude I was saying to Megan a couple nights ago. I said I feel different. I

03:22Just feel different. Yeah, you know and I love the man I am now and I don't know if I could

03:33Yeah, yes, ma'am, yeah you just I know I said ma'am I said, I'm sorry Sherry

03:40You know, it's I just left my mama. I know so like not not that's how I'm saying. No, no

03:48Because I have that nurturing quality. Yeah, I have that nurture one of my mother's but no, it's just I'm a southern boy

03:53Yeah, I appreciate that. I can't shake. I can't shake it. I appreciate that. I apologize. I know you ain't gotta apologize. We good

04:00I just I love you. I love you. Yeah. Oh, thank you. You know, we and thank you for that. Yes, ma'am

04:10Do what you gonna do do what you gonna do because I know you love me it was a few days ago this happened

04:16This audio recording from 2022. It was leaked to the press

04:20It was allegedly of you and your ex discussing an aggressive incident now

04:27What can you tell me about that? How does this make you feel like now this is coming out

04:32You got a movie coming out big things are happening. And now this tape of you allegedly doing this is coming out now

04:38How you feeling about that?

04:43God has a plan

04:46And sometimes you just throw your hands up, you know

04:50You like I can't speak about it, you know

04:54But I do know

04:56There's a plan and I'm just I've let go of control, you know, and I just say hey

05:02Whatever it is

05:05You have recently opened up to the Hollywood Reporter, I read this article

05:10And I know that must have been difficult to talk about because you talked about the abuse that you suffered

05:14That you went through as a child

05:16Jonathan

05:18What that's very hard to come out and talk about that because it's something so private

05:23What got you to this place that you felt you were able to share that?

05:28growth

05:30Growth

05:32in the in the past two years, I mean

05:35so I'm an athlete right and I'm an actor right and and the two things that

05:41accompany those occupations are

05:45Instructors and instructors, excuse me teachers mentors and I had all that

05:51Athletically I have that, you know, I've got great trainers. I've got great nutritionist

05:55I went to I was blessed enough to go to some really great schools for my craft

06:00But then there's the third vertical of just like the self in the self because I was so focused on

06:05Career and and and health and all these things

06:09Jonathan me myself got got left to the wayside

06:12And the self myself I left that aside and now in this in this moment

06:17I would J if if the acting thing works for you and you did it this way you got to do yourself

06:23Wellness and yourself help the same way. So I

06:26Brought in I brought in the Avengers, you know

06:30Therapist, you know, so they're really therapy therapy and my pastor, you know, there is Daniels

06:36You know who I'd love and cherish shout out to change Church

06:40They have been he didn't know I was gonna say his name Lord have mercy

06:44I love you, man

06:47That and and I I was strong enough to go to it at that point

06:54You know, I'm a mother

06:56Jonathan I have a son a teenage son and I know hearing something like that because you said you went to your mother and you

07:02You know, yeah, and you talked about this with your mother. That is something that the get would have been all on me

07:08I don't know if I would have been able to let that go and you said something you said you you didn't blame your mother

07:13You just were telling her just to get to that place of that speaks of a certain forgiveness

07:17Like how did you even get to that point where you could talk to your mother?

07:22about that

07:24The first person I spoke to about it was Megan, okay, and then

07:32Months went by so it's not like I was like, oh

07:35Great session, you know, great great prayer. We'll call that call mom, you know, you know, no, no, no

07:41It was it was a process

07:44For my growth and for my family's growth because as I said, we're a sudden household and certain things don't get talked about and

07:51It was important for me

07:54that my mother knew that I

07:58Knew you know and that and that we were gonna be okay

08:02The family was gonna be okay, and we were gonna be stronger because of it because it was a cancer in our family

08:08You know

08:09Yeah

08:09and there was a cancer in me and

08:11You would be a fool to have a surgeon right in front of you and not not go to yeah

08:15You know to have a doctor right there and just just be happy being sick because you were ashamed

08:19You know that you sprained your ankle when you were nine, you know, I mean, that's that's silly

08:24It's it's the drive for healing, you know

08:28That's hard for you know, especially for black men going to therapy talking about their mental state crying

08:34How would you speak to that for for black men being able to go and get help to be able to talk about those things?

08:41That are so painful, right? Um, I

08:46Mean to my brothers I gotta say like

08:49We walk around all the time talking about oh, what's up King? What's up, bro?

08:53I got you man. I'm holding you down

08:56What's a king if he's not full

09:02What's a brother if you can't talk to you to your man's and be like hey, this is what I'm feeling right now

09:07Yeah, and yeah, I did

09:09I'm feeling this way because of this, you know and to be able to identify it, you know

09:13And then to get help with that, you know

09:16Like like that's a superpower to go I know and I don't know everything that's in me right now

09:21I don't know the but I'm digging and I'm working at that, you know, so for my brothers, I would say hey

09:29We got a girl we've got to move, you know

09:31And don't let anything stop you from being the best man you can be

09:35You know and usually the thing that stopped and this is what I realized the thing that stops you from being the best man

09:39You can be is the man in the mirror

09:41You know, that's the guy that's carrying all the shame that's carrying all the

09:45He's carrying that that guy that guy is the guy carrying all the hurt, you know, I mean and

09:51And he gets tired, you know, I mean he gets really tired

09:55And we get tired brothers, you know, I mean like like

09:59Life is enough walk around as a black man is enough in this country. That's hard, you know

10:04Get your foot off your own neck, you know

10:07And the best way to do that is to is to get in touch with yourself

10:11And the best way to do that is to is to get in touch with yourself, you know

10:15And to deal with those deal with those things, you know, it's something that struck me

10:20I remember watching you in an award show and the Yana Vanzant was

10:26You she welcomed you up on stage and you hugged her and she held you and she held you and I know

10:33There have been women of color who felt you deserved a second chance to rebuild your life

10:39What is the support been like for you from women

10:43Surrounding you in your life, Jonathan

10:46Sorry, I'm just looking at that. Yeah, we all looked at it like you just couldn't stop you let go. Yeah, it's um

10:53It's been really it's been really beautiful, you know

10:59Primarily because you know so much of my

11:03You know, we talked about the the incidents in my youth like you wear that

11:09you know and

11:11People sometimes confuse their character with their trauma

11:15You know, I mean and you start moving a certain way and having certain limiting thoughts because of something that happened to you. Yeah, and

11:23When I see sisters

11:26Holla at me in the street, you know

11:28I mean when when I'm walking down the road and they just pulled me aside want to pray with me on the corner

11:33you know, it goes oh I feel I

11:35Feel emboldened and I feel confident and I feel

11:39Encouraged to keep going the way I was going, you know

11:41Keep keep going to the help, you know

11:44I mean and when I look out here and I see all these sisters and I was like

11:46I don't know if they paid y'all to clap or what but but but but man

12:01I

12:02Love y'all. I really do. I really do. I really do. You know, it's

12:07To receive this love and and and I love this for you

12:11Jonathan you found love with actress Megan good and

12:23You know and then I you know

12:25I woke up this morning just to go to get some water and I read that y'all got married yesterday

12:32You the married me. You're the married man

12:40What happened here you got to tell me about this day I

12:50Said to Megan yesterday I said today might be the happiest day of my life

12:55I

13:03Love that woman so much

13:10So how did it happen well

13:13Lord

13:14Sherry, thank you

13:16How did it happen? You fell in love? That's the question. No, I

13:21Asked the father first right in Paris if that was all right, he was it that's cool

13:28It was long is a longer cap say thank you. I'm tripping and my makeup is good

13:35Yeah, so so it's always the plan yes, right and

13:41My mother came my mother pastor and she came from Dallas where I'm from and

13:48You gotta give up for Dallas

13:52Or Houston

13:56Yeah, he had mom come and she came to the premiere the

14:00LA screen and my mother had never been to one of the one of my screenings and

14:06We had told her that hey, we're gonna we're gonna do this thing. And uh, and we did my mother married us yesterday

14:15Her mother was there

14:19Yeah

14:21Her mother was there and yeah, we had these rings and we got him engraved in in Hawaii

14:31After I spoke with her father again, yeah

14:34and

14:35We finally got to do it, but it was always a plan, you know, so Wow

14:39Yeah, I just before I know you were coming back, but I just want to say to you what what makes you smile Jonathan?

14:46How did you get your smile back? Wow? Wow, that's you know, I got a buddy

14:51I got my best buddy Jason best said to me. Hey, man, you gotta smile more

14:56You know me this is probably like three years ago, right?

14:59You know, you got smile more and then that reminded me of a conversation I had

15:02while while at Yale School of Drama and

15:06Chris Bayes the incredible acting teacher there

15:09We're in a clown class and clown shows

15:11You know this stuff and I was having the hardest time and I remember sitting in class just like

15:17You know and nose on my face, you know, and I and I said to him man

15:23When can I when can I when I'm gonna laugh like all the other classmates I got around me

15:29You say it's gonna come you just got to take time and I didn't realize I graduated from Yale in

15:352016 I didn't realize it's gonna take almost 10 years for me to find that smile in that laugh and

15:42How we did it, you know God did it, you know

15:47You don't think about it. I'll say this. I'll say this, you know, you don't think about it

15:51You know trials and tribulations that they can lead to they can lead to joy

15:55Yes, you know me and that amount the amount of weight and the amount of struggle you have to go through

16:00I mean we say it all the time like like like joy comes in the morning for me joy came ten years later

16:06But I found it but it came and I don't want you. I don't want you to go anywhere

16:10Because up next we're chatting with Jonathan about his new film magazine dreams. Keep it right here

16:16We're gonna have a good time

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