Michael B. Jordan Admits He Struggles With 'Loneliness'

Michael B. Jordan has been keeping busy in recent years with appearances in smash movies like Creed III and Black Panther: Wakanda Forever. But having a busy schedule can mean he sometimes has to choose between work and a love life. 

Jordan opened up about where his head is at on a March 11 appearance on the On Purpose with Jay Shetty podcast. The actor confessed he goes “back and forth between wanting partnership and then not knowing what’s the best partner for me.” 

“Bringing them into my world, what I got going on, isn’t easy,” he added. “And it’s not just, ‘I love you, you love me, that should be enough,’ right? It’s not quite that simple.” 

“[It’s about] finding the right person to understand all of me, but then all that comes with me as well,” he continued. “And understanding that balance between wanting to be available and there for that person, while I’m juggling everything else. And feeling okay to put the other part of my businesses down.”

That doesn’t mean he’s grown to resent his work necessarily. “I love multitasking; I love juggling, the balancing act that I do,” he said, acknowledging “The worst part is the loneliness that comes with that.”

“There’s a loneliness that I have. The responsibility that you have is isolating, and the weight is isolating,” he explained. “So I think the worst part of that is the feeling like nobody really understands, and sometimes falling into the spaces of just being alone, feeling alone.”

“The sacrifice, the compromise that comes with a partnership and a relationship, and understanding how to make that all work, sometimes it gives me anxiety and pause,” he concluded. Jordan is “not looking” for a relationship at the moment, but he knows he does want a family eventually. “It would take a very special person to understand and grow with me,” he said. 

Once he is ready to date, it’s likely the onetime “Sexiest Man Alive” won’t have a shortage of options to choose from.