United Kingdom, May 2 -- Damon Wayans Sr. got to relive "the fun of having a family and having a wife" on My Wife and Kids.

The 65-year-old actor created the ABC sitcom - in which he played Michael Kyle from 2001 until 2005 - to find the joy of family life again as he and ex-wife, actress Lisa Thorner, processed their divorce, which was finalised in 2000 after 16 years of marriage.

Damon explained to People: "I got a chance to relive the beauty of being married, the fun of having a family and having a wife, and that's why I named it My Wife and Kids, because I wanted to celebrate it as opposed to give a very bitter side of the breakup.

"[It was] very medicinal, almost, to me it helped me a lot."

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