Megan Fox's ex-husband Brian Austin Green reveals reason he never responded to grooming allegations

Daily Mail​

07-05-2025

Brian Austin Green is finally addressing allegations that he 'groomed' his ex-wife Megan Fox.
The 51-year-old Beverly Hills, 90210 star has been dogged by rumors for years that he took advantage of the 38-year-old actress because of her youth and their significant age gap, as she was only 18 when they began dating, while he was 30.
But on Monday, he opened up about the subject he has long held his tongue on during a chat with his fiancée Sharna Burgess on their podcast Oldish.
Sharna, 39, cued up Brian after he described his 'toxic' relationship with his ex Vanessa Marcil, which prompted her to dig up text messages between herself and her ex in which she appeared to hint that he had forgotten their 23-year-old son Kassius' graduation.
Although Sharna knew that her fiancé denied having groomed his ex-wife, she asked him why he never tried to set the record straight.
According to actor, the influence of a family member led him to think defending himself would be a losing battle.
The Beverly Hills, 90210 star has been dogged by rumors for years that he took advantage of the 38-year-old actress because of her youth and their significant age gap, as she was only 18 when they began dating, while he was 30; pictured in 2010 at Disney World's Magic Kingdom
'I think it comes from my dad. He's very good at cutting emotion out of something and just being logical in his choices,' Brian explained.
'I really, logically understood that if I defend myself this one time, it's never gonna stop,' he said. 'I'm gonna have to defend myself for who knows how long, because people are gonna believe what they wanna believe. So, to me, time is the only thing that regulates that.
He explained that he hoped living a life relatively free of controversy would overwhelm the suspicions of people who didn't know him.
'People spend more time seeing me not being that way and then they start questioning it and they start going, you know, "We've seen him for five years. We've never once seen him being controlling or hearing any other story from anyone else about,"' he shared. 'It's the long game of it.'
Brian and his ex Megan began their relationship back in 2004, after they had worked together on the ABC sitcom Hope & Faith.
Megan joined the series in its second season to take over the role of one of the title characters' daughters, and Brian made a guest appearance on the show.
In a 2009 Elle profile, the Transformers actress suggested that she took the upper hand in initiating the relationship, as Brian was initially hesitant about dating.
'I had to convince him that I was slightly more responsible and well-spoken and had other things to bring to the table besides being 18,' she said.
The two had a tumultuous relationship, and though they got engaged two years later, they later split in February 2009.
But Brian and Megan announced in June 2010 that they had reunited and the engagement was back on, and they surprised their fans by tying the knot later that month in Hawaii.
The couple later welcomed three sons: Noah, 12; Bodhi, 11; and Journey, eight.
After welcoming their second son in 2014, Megan and Brian announced they had separated in August 2015, and Megan filed for divorce days later. However, the on–off couple reunited early the next year, and Megan later filed to dismiss her divorce suit in 2019.
Just over a year later, in May 2020, Brian revealed that he and Megan had again separated, seemingly for good.
Megan filed for divorce in November of that year, and it was finalized in October 2021.
Brian later moved on with Sharna in October 2020, and they welcomed a son together in June 2022, before getting engaged in September of the following year.
A month after her split from Brian was announced, Megan went public with her relationship with the rapper-turned-rocker Machine Gun Kelly.
The two got engaged in 2022 but called it off two years later. In March of this year, Megan gave birth to their first child together, a daughter, though they have not publicly revealed her name so far.
On the same Oldish episode that Brian opened up about the grooming allegations, he labeled his and ex Vaneesa Marcil previous relationship as 'toxic.'
Vanessa and Brian first began dating in 1999 after meeting on set of Beverly Hills, 90210 and became engaged in 2001. Their son Kassius, 23, was born the following year but the former couple split soon after.
The Las Vegas actress, 56, jumped to Instagram on Tuesday as she uploaded a brief exchange which appeared to hint that Green had forgotten about his son's graduation.
She had sent him a photo and he typed, 'When was that?' to which she replied, 'Yesterday was his graduation.'
The father-of-five then complimented her by adding, 'You did a really great job. He's an amazing person :).' Marcil simply responded with, 'Thank you.'
Earlier this week on Monday, Brian reflected on his relationships with both Megan Fox and Vanessa on a recent podcast episode.
Green and Marcil have been embroiled in co-parenting drama since their split and back in 2023, he made claims that the actress did not let him see their son Kassius at one point.
Brian's ex Vanessa Marcil, 56, shared a past text message exchange between the pair on Tuesday as she seemingly made a subtle dig at the actor; seen in 2017 in L.A.
She also has alleged in 2018 that both Brian and then-wife Megan Fox had 'cut Kass out of their lives.' However, Vanessa later revealed that the Transformers actress apologized for her role in their family drama.
The actor recalled how his mother had 'smothered him' while growing up, and how that affected his own relationships in the future.
'If I'm looking for a woman, I want the complete opposite of that. I had some major missteps because of that,' he told both Randy and Sharna.
'I mean, the relationship that I had with Vanessa was very toxic in that way. Like, it wasn't a loving, caring relationship.'
He added of his mother, 'To a fault sometimes, just everything was about me. And then with Vanessa, it was not that at all, but it was masked in this is a relationship where that absolutely exists.
'So you start thinking like, "'Oh, it's just kind of a new version. Like, oh, she loves me, but this is her way of loving me."'
Green explained that he initially believed Vanessa had being 'trying to help me' but just a couple years later, he didn't recognize himself.
'You're like, "Who am I at this point? There's not once piece of me that's left. My relationship with everyone around me has changed."'
Last year, Vanessa came to Megan's defense and shared that the beauty previously apologized for her involvement in their family drama.
In response to a fan on Instagram, Marcil penned at the time: 'She has apologized to both me and our child. She stated she is "disgusted" by her behavior. However, it wasn't her job to keep a grown man/biological parent in his son's life. That's on him.'
She added, 'It's true as you said that it's painful to watch #sharnaburgess try to gaslight her followers, however I do feel for her too.
'Only difference is that she's not a child like Megan was. She's being conned and would have to give up her whole 'fairy tale' in order to stand up for the truth at this point.'
The star then added of Burgess, 'But trust me, in her gut, she knows that she's being lied to. I feel for her and her beautiful son. We [don't] really matter anymore. The kids do. One day we will all be gone and these siblings will all be together.
'My son is the oldest and he knows the real truth. He will protect them. Their safety and peace are all he cares about. The truth will always prevail in the end.'
Marcil expressed, 'It's good to be on the right side of history and to know I gave up everything to protect my son and stand up to the truth.'
One year earlier in 2023, Green claimed that Vanessa had kept their son Kassius out of his life amid his health struggles with vertigo.
Last year, Vanessa came to Fox's defense and shared that the beauty previously apologized for her involvement in their family drama
'Those years that he wasn't able to go see Kassius, Vanessa made no effort to make sure Brian got time with him,' Sharna alleged during a previous episode.
'Instead, she painted him as an absent father who chose not to be around for him. And I'm sure that information was fed to Kass, and I can't imagine how damaging that was for him.'
Brian also claimed, 'To find out after the fact that at the point when I started getting better, that she then was painting it that I had abandoned Kass during that time, when the reality was I was dealing with such brain fog in what I was going through.'
He added, 'It would've meant so much if Vanessa had decided, "Hey, I'm going to make sure while you're going through this that your son can still get to your house and see you."
'That would've just made an incredible difference in the situation. But that's not what went down. That's not how it happened.'
Marcil has previously alleged that she raised Kassius all on her own. She also claimed that he had taken her to court for years and requested for child support — which Brian denied.