From 2001 to 2003 she was engaged to fellow pornographic actor Barrett Blade, who had managed her career from behind the scenes before working professionally onscreen with her. She describes their break-up as "difficult" and a contributing reason for her hiatus from the industry during the subsequent period. In 2005, she was dating Chinese-American Entrepreneur, Danny Ting, a former Arthur Andersen consultant and founder of WantedList, a website that strives to be the "Netflix of the porn industry" and was named Adult Video News' Best Online Retailer for 2005. In an interview in Wired, Ting said of his relationship with Devon: "Girls who turn their nose up at us when we tell them what we do, they wouldn't be that much fun to hang out with anyway." She suffers from mild acrophobia. She believes being active in the sex industry has given her more confidence, making her more "outgoing and aggressive" about what she wants. She says she never watches her own films because she is too critical of herself, the only exception being the times when she has to do commentary for her own work. She has four cats names Bouses, Bruiser, Russian and Seven, and Devon describes herself as being "cute, honest and humorous". She has stated that the main difference between her industry persona and her real life persona as her industry persona being more outgoing and flirtatious. She describes herself as irreligious.