From "Untitled" To Fiancée (Guests: Michael Elliot & Adia May)
Dear Future Wifey
Laterras R. Whitfield
4.9 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 6 May 2026
⏱️ 95 minutes
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Summary
Michael Elliot spent years writing some of culture’s most beloved love stories, including "Brown Sugar", "Ruth and Boaz", and "Relationship Goals". Through unforgettable scripts, romance, and emotionally rich characters, he mastered the art of portraying love on screen. But behind the scenes, there was one thing he admits he had never fully experienced for himself: a love deep enough to make him completely choose commitment.
In this heartfelt episode of Dear Future Wifey Podcast, Michael and his fiancée, Adia May, share the real-life love story years in the making. Long before the proposal, there was history. Timing pulled them apart when Michael wasn’t ready to define what they had. Though their connection was real, he wasn’t prepared to put a title on it. But life has a way of revisiting unfinished chapters.
Now, years later, Michael returned—not just with words, but with intention, clarity, and a ring. Together, they unpack the evolution of a man who could write romance for Hollywood yet struggled to surrender to love in real life. This episode explores timing, emotional maturity, fear of commitment, second chances, and what happens when a man finally raises the stakes for the woman he was never truly able to forget.
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| 0:00.0 | When I sold my very first script, which was Brown Sugar, the title was called seven days, |
| 0:05.7 | originally, seven days later, 14 months into deciding to be a screenwriter, post 30, I get the |
| 0:12.4 | phone call that changed my life. And the call was, do you have a lawyer? Because 20th Century Fox |
| 0:17.5 | is about to buy your script. And in that moment, it was like, I felt God touch me on my shoulder and say, I know your name. |
| 0:25.9 | Michael Elliott and Adia May. |
| 0:28.7 | I left home at a very early age. |
| 0:30.8 | What is early? |
| 0:31.6 | 16. |
| 0:32.2 | You were on your own at 16? |
| 0:33.4 | 16 years old. |
| 0:34.5 | My relationship with my mother was just broken. |
| 0:37.0 | It really affected me. |
| 0:38.3 | My mother is my first love. |
| 0:40.4 | So feeling that she didn't love me, honestly, it affected every relationship, both romantic and platonic I've ever had in my entire life. |
| 0:50.4 | I could write about love. |
| 0:51.8 | I can dream of love, but I didn't really believe in love. And my secret |
| 0:55.8 | shame was, I knew I was incapable of sustaining it. I always knew innately that God created me |
| 1:03.3 | for a specific purpose, but I knew that there was a purpose made for me. I knew this. I would always |
| 1:10.4 | say, well, God, you see me out here. |
| 1:12.3 | Like, you see me out here. Right? You see me. You see me. You see here. Like, in the circus. |
| 1:20.9 | I'm going every night to the circus. And, you know, but my early show. My purpose mate, my future husband, I knew he wasn't in the circus. |
| 1:32.3 | I had to shift. |
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