As a kid, Jonathan grew up on with his two siblings on the Vandenberg military base near Lompoc, CA, as his father was in the Air Force. However, his mother moved him and his siblings to Dallas after his father left the family. "Our father, who loved us dearly, just kind of disappeared one day . . . and he resurfaced 17 years later," Jonathan explained to The Hollywood Reporter in November 2019.
Following the death of George Floyd and the start of the Black Lives Matter movement, Jonathan was able to reconnect with his father. "I hadn't spoken to him in about two years, but I spoke to him this morning briefly. He said he saw the same protests in the '60s, then in the '90s with Rodney King, and now again," Jonathan told People in June 2020, noting that the protest movement brought them closer together.