Devon Franklin Has An Honest Convo On Hollywood, Relationship Goals & New Marriage w/ Lecrae
The Deep End With Lecrae
Lecrae
4.8 • 602 Ratings
🗓️ 23 April 2026
⏱️ 77 minutes
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Summary
DeVon Franklin is a Hollywood producer, preacher, and New York Times bestselling author. His credits include Miracles from Heaven, Breakthrough, Flamin' Hot, and The Pursuit of Happyness. He is the founder of DeVon Franklin Entertainment. His latest film, Ruth and Boaz, is streaming on Netflix now.
In this episode: DeVon's origin in East Oakland, how his father's death at nine years old became the fuel, what he told his congregation at 16, the Paramount deal collapse, the season with no deal after Flamin' Hot, burning the DeVon Franklin Universe pie chart, the Relationship Goals controversy and why he stands behind it, how life imitated art during Ruth and Boaz, the achievement addiction he finally broke, and an exclusive announcement on his next biblical film.
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| 0:00.0 | Why were they living together? |
| 0:02.1 | Supposed to be a pastor's book about how to do relationships. |
| 0:05.4 | Friday shacking and relationship goals. |
| 0:08.7 | Okay, if our content only shows the ideal, but never shows where people may come from, |
| 0:15.8 | the content's not going to resonate. |
| 0:17.4 | Hey, wait a minute. |
| 0:18.4 | When was the last faith-based romantic comedy that's ever been made? |
| 0:21.5 | When was the last one? I don't. Why do you continue doing it? Though some people may criticize you. |
| 0:28.4 | You don't have to do it, but you do do it. Yeah. Why? At the end of my life, I have to be |
| 0:35.6 | accountable to God. I've got to stand before him and take account for what he called me to do. |
| 0:42.3 | I've never seen you like this. |
| 0:44.3 | After nine years of marriage, |
| 0:46.3 | and Devon Franklin are filing for divorce. |
| 0:49.3 | You went on record and you said, you know, you weren't looking for love, but you were open to it. How is someone open after all of that chaos that you've endured? |
| 1:00.9 | Love is the whole entire game of our human experience. Period. That's it. So if we close |
| 1:09.9 | ourselves off to love, we close ourselves off to life and to God. |
| 1:13.8 | I don't know what you've done with the Devon Franklin of Old. |
| 1:17.5 | I don't know this individual sitting here right now. |
| 1:20.6 | Allow me to reintroduce myself. |
| 1:23.9 | This is The Deep End with La Cray. |
| 1:29.1 | All right, ladies and gentlemen, I am excited because today we have somebody who a lot of us know, right? |
| 1:38.9 | But we don't know all of the things this individual has done. |
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