Jonathan Majors recently opened up about his mental health struggles, revealing that he shared his suicidal thoughts with his wife, Meagan Good, and even went as far as writing a letter.
Majors, 36, who married Good, 44, this year, touched on his mental health issues during an appearance on Kirk Franklin’s Den of Kings podcast, Complex reported.
“I was on suicide watch,” the Creed III star revealed. “There were times when… me and my girlfriend, me and my fiancé, and now me and my wife, we never spoke about it, but she never left me alone. I never let myself be alone.”
Majors also disclosed that he did not beat about the bush when he disclosed his suicidal thoughts to Good. “I put it to her very straight,” he said. “‘I just don’t want it.’ You know, talking about life.”
When he was asked how it got to that point, Majors replied, “isolation,” “ostracism,” “humiliation,” and “abandonment.”
As previously reported by Face2Face Africa, Majors was arrested in New York in March 2023 after his ex-girlfriend Grace Jabbari accused him of attacking and injuring her. But Majors maintained his innocence in the aftermath of the incident.
In December 2023, Majors was found guilty of one count of assault and one count of harassment but was acquitted of another count of assault and one aggravated harassment count. He, however, avoided jail time as he was sentenced to domestic violence programming in April 2024.
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Majors faced a maximum sentence of 364 days in jail, but the Manhattan district attorney’s office did not seek jail time. His sentencing also came after a judge dismissed an appeal to toss his assault and harassment conviction and acquit him of the charges, Deadline reported.
Although Majors was spared jail time, the repercussions of his guilty verdict impacted him beyond the courtroom. The guilty verdict resulted in his removal from his Marvel role as Kang the Conqueror.
“The funny thing about that is that… I’ve learned that those things, and having an event happen to you and getting arrested or losing a job… You think that’s the thing that gets you, but it’s usually, I found for myself, it was something way, way, way, way back,” Majors said on the podcast.
“I mean, drug overdose… Yep. Damn near lived on a roof, just plenty of—I don’t even smoke cigarettes—plenty of cigarettes and whiskey. I actually wrote a letter. I’ve done the whole thing and been there.”
Majors was praised for being courageous and not shying away from disclosing his mental health struggles, to which he said it was prudent for more Black men to do the same.
“But we are all born into a society in which our narrative as Black men, we’re born into a narrative that puts us downhill,” he said, per Complex. “And then you end up having to pretend that you’re somebody that you’re not to get through certain doors that I got through.”
