Jonathan Majors is reflecting on the state of his career after that controversial domestic violence case.
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Speaking with Rolling Stone Africa, Majors says that the court case cost him a lot. A court found him guilty of assault and harassment charges stemming from an incident with his ex-girlfriend, Grace Jabbari.
"I've walked through fire — publicly. I won't pretend otherwise," Majors said. "What that season taught me is that a man is not what the headlines say he is; a man is what he does when the lights go out and it's just him and God."
He further continued, "Adversity stripped me of everything I thought was mine and gave me back only what was real: my faith, my wife, my craft, my purpose."
Meanwhile, his wife, Meagan Goode, has stood by him through the court case. The two got married last year.
"Every woman has survived something," Good told RollingStone Africa. "My faith carried me through seasons I didn't think I'd survive, and the other side of that valley is where I met the fullness of who I am and am still growing into — and, honestly, where I met my husband as the man God shaped him to be."
Jonathan Majors Ousted
Prior to the controversy, Majors was one of the biggest rising talents in Hollywood. He was set to be a major leading figure.
"I have known a version of the Hollywood mountaintop," Majors said in the new interview with Rolling Stone Africa. "I have also known the valley — the kind of valley where your name becomes a headline before it becomes a sentence, and every stranger has a verdict before you have a chance to say good morning."
He added, "I will not pretend that season did not humble me. It did. It took me down to the studs. And when you are down to the studs, you learn what your house was actually built on. What I learned is this: resilience is not a highlight reel. Resilience is Tuesday. It is the therapist's office at 9 a.m. It is the phone call to somebody you wronged, where your voice shakes and you make the call anyway."
