MGK Reveals "Good Mourning" Is Inspired By What He Thought Was Megan Fox's Breakup Text

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"Good Mourning" will be available in theatres and on-demand on May 20th.

Machine Gun Kelly and Megan Fox are more than just lovers, they're also creative collaborators. For their most recent project, the soon-to-be-married duo star in Good Mourning, which the rapper-turned-rocker recently revealed was actually inspired by the time he thought that his fiancée was dumping him over text.

"I wrote the movie for her because she was unknowingly the cause of the spiral. She sent me a text just like in the movie," MGK told Extra of the stoner comedy which he both directed and starred in at the premiere earlier this week.

MGK Reveals "Good Mourning" Is Inspired By What He Thought Was Megan Fox's Breakup Text
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"[My character] spirals over a text that he doesn’t really understand and he can’t get a hold of her, and that was what was happening to me," the father of one recalled, adding that he usually writes music to help get his feelings out, but this time around, he needed something different. "I was, like, spiralling so hard. I needed somewhere else to go with it. I was like, 'I'm just gonna write a movie.'"

When he shared his script with the Transformers actress, MGK said that Fox asked him, "This is what you were thinking the whole time?"

As per Page Six, Kelly plays the role of London Clash on-screen, whose life is "turned upside down when he must choose between pursuing his one true love and landing a life-changing, starring role in a major motion picture."

Other famous faces who appear in Good Mourning include Dove Cameron, Becky G, Whitney Cummings, and Pete Davidson, who just so happens to be one of the director's closest friends.

"We were supposed to shoot for eight hours, it turned into like 16 hours because we couldn’t stop laughing," MGK told the media. "[Pete] was improvising when I was in the editing station. I was like, 'OK, we got to keep that, we got to keep that, too.' Everything he said was hilarious."

When they walked the red carpet, Fox and her man looked pretty in pink, with the actress wearing a fully embellished Philosophy di Lorenzo Serafini gown and Colson Baker opting for a sharp double-breasted Dolce & Gabbana tuxedo.


Good Mourning will be available in theatres and on-demand on May 20th. Do you plan to check it out? Sound off in the comment section below, and tap back in with HNHH later for more pop culture news updates.

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Hayley Hynes is the former Weekend Managing Editor of HotNewHipHop, she stepped down after two years in 2024 to pursue other creative opportunities but remains on staff part-time to cover music, gossip, and pop culture news. Currently, she contributes similar content on Blavity and 21Ninety, as well as on her personal blog where she also offers tarot/astrology services. Hayley resides on the western side of Canada, previously spending a year in Vancouver to study Fashion Marketing at Blanche Macdonald Centre and Journalism at Mount Royal University in Calgary before that. She's passionate about helping others heal through storytelling, and shares much more about her life on Instagram @hayleyhynes.
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