When it comes to his personal life, Marlon Wayans never saw himself walking down the aisle until recently even though he loves love.
Sadly, it was the death of his mother that changed the comedian’s perspective.
“I never got married because I knew my mom needed me. Women sometimes want to battle for your attention, they want to battle for your love, they want to be the one. Me and my mama share the same birthday. I’m not trying to hear you.”
Marlon Wayans says as he looks toward the second half of his life he thinks, “Yeah, I probably got one in me. Just one.”
Wayans has two children with Angela Zackery: 21-year-old daughter Amai Zackary Wayans and 19-year-old son Shawn Howell Wayans. The two were in a relationship from 1992-2013 but never married.
I like things to bend and not break, and I feel like when you get married, you have to get divorced in order to either be separated or together,” Wayans says. “I like friendships because you just learn each other and you just grow and you just get better.”
Expressing a common sentiment that marriage is no longer a necessity as it once was, Wayans adds, “You know what I need? I need peace. You know what you need? Peace. Love is a vacation. I don’t want to give nobody issues. I want to give you smiles and I hope you want to give me the same. All the other stuff is just noise and stuff that we’re battling. I just want to smile. I just want to laugh. I just want to eat well, I just want to travel, I just want to be loved, I just want to be hugged. I just want to hug you. I just want all the good stuff. All that other nonsense? It’s for the birds, man.”
