Browsing through text messages, expectations, closeness? Actor Brian Austin Green (52) answers in an episode of the podcast "I Do, Part 2" listeners' questions about exactly such relationship topics. In doing so, he also talks about his divorced marriage to his colleague Megan Fox (40). He shares what he has taken from this experience for his life.
Fox and the former "Beverly Hills, 90210" star met in 2004 and married in 2010. Their first son together was born in September 2012, their second son in February 2014, and the couple's third little son in August 2016. The separation was announced in 2020.
When asked what he believed about marriage before his divorce and what he now sees differently, the actor responds openly. He thought that marriage was something you do once in your life. But you also have to be open to the fact that your own definition of "forever" may not correspond to what "forever" means in a particular relationship. It is not necessarily an entire lifetime, even if you might hope for that. With his current partner Sharna Burgess (41), with whom he also has a son, Green hopes this will be the case. He is also the father of another son, Kassius (24), from a previous relationship with Vanessa Marcil (57).
How the divorce changed Brian Austin Green
"My ex and I were together for almost 15 years", Green recounts in the podcast episode about his relationship with Megan Fox. They were married for almost ten years. For him, physical attraction to her was primarily at the forefront during the marriage. In general, his previous relationships were often based on this attraction and less on an emotional connection. "Initially, I felt physically attracted to someone and then kind of built a relationship on top of that", he explains.
The separation, however, provided a new perspective. "I was divorced, which I hadn't expected", he recalls. "I had three children, was a single parent, and knew that I didn't want to repeat things I had done before." Therefore, he underwent different therapies to figure out which harmful patterns he was bringing into a relationship.
Green, who has been engaged to Burgess since 2023, now believes: "I truly believe that you have to be friends first." They were really very good friends at the beginning - an uncomplicated, natural friendship. "Then we noticed through physical closeness that we - also in this regard - harmonized excellently, and the relationship eventually developed from that." When you build on such a foundation, you don't worry so much about whether the other person finds you attractive. You're already communicating in a very transparent way. For example, he and his fiancée also talked openly right away about their own positive and negative sides.
