LEFT: LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA - JUNE 26: (L-R) Michael Sterling and Eva Marcille attends the 2022 BET Awards at Microsoft Theater on June 26, 2022 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Paras Griffin/Getty Images for BET) RIGHT: ATLANTA, GEORGIA - FEBRUARY 10: Drew Sidora and Ralph Pittman attend the Atlanta screening of Lifetime's "Line Sisters" at IPIC Theaters at Colony Square on February 10, 2022 in Atlanta, Georgia. (Photo by Paras Griffin/Getty Images)
People say marriage is tough, and these couples — or at least one partner in the relationship — have made the likely even tougher decision to split. Less than six months into 2023, four couples familiar to The Shade Room’s audience have filed for divorce.
Some celebrities are still reflecting on divorces filed last year and even the year before. Meagan Good recently told Essence that the decision to divorce was something she never “would have chosen,” adding that she even questioned celibacy afterward. Meagan and DeVon Franklin split in 2021 after he filed for divorce in December. The divorce was reportedly finalized days before their 10-year wedding anniversary.
Meanwhile, Da’Naia Jackson, former wife of popular relationship coach Derrick Jaxn, recently said “surrendering to the Lord” is her secret through the split. In December 2022, Derrick announced their joint decision to split less than two years after he publicly confessed to infidelity.
Keep scrolling to see what we know about divorce petitions from: Eva Marcille and Michael Sterling, Drew Sidora and Ralph Pittman, Reese Witherspoon and Jim Toth, and Michael Halterman and Amy Slaton.
