Brian Austin Green Says Dating Megan Fox After Ex Vanessa Marcil Was 'a Breath of Fresh Air Coming Out of Vietnam'
Brian Austin Green shared that he and ex Vanessa Marcil didn't have 'a loving, caring relationship."
The actor said meeting Megan Fox was 'a breath of fresh air' after 'coming out of what felt like Vietnam to me,' referring to his time with Marcil.
The 'Beverly Hills, 90210' also addressed claims that he "groomed" Fox after the two began dating when she was 18 and he was 31.
Brian Austin Green is diving deep into his relationship history — and why his romance with ex Vanessa Marcil didn't end up working out.
During the May 5 episode of his Oldish podcast with fiancée Sharna Burgess and Randy Spelling, the Beverly Hills, 90210 alum, 51, shared how his mother's tendency of "smothering him" affected his romantic relationships as an adult.
"If I'm looking for a woman, I want the complete opposite of that," he explained. "I had some major missteps because of that. I mean, the relationship that I had with Vanessa was very toxic in that way. Like, it wasn't a loving, caring relationship."
Though he recognizes how much his mother "loved me," Green noted that his mother's love was given to him at "a fault."
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"Just everything was about me," he said. "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.'"
At first, Green claimed that he believed Mercil was "trying to help me and fix me and get me through things," but "after two years or so, you're kinda looking at yourself in the mirror and you're like, 'Who am I at this point?'"
Eventually, he couldn't recognize himself. Green claimed that his relationships with everyone in his life had changed.
"So that relationship ended up not working out. Then Megan [Fox], she was a breath of fresh air, coming out of what felt like Vietnam to me," he said of the beginning of his relationship with his ex- wife.
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PEOPLE has reached out to Marcil's reps for comment.
Green and Marcil first started dating in the late 1990s after meeting on the set of Beverly Hills, 90210, and got engaged in the summer of 2001. They welcomed son Kassius on March 30, 2002, though they split not long after, in 2003.
The next year, Green met Fox while filming ABC's Hope & Faith, at the time, he was 31 when she was 18 years old. They began dating shortly after and later got married in 2010, eventually welcoming three children: sons Noah Shannon, Bodhi Ransom and Journey River.
Elsewhere in the podcast episode, Green also addressed claims that he "groomed" Fox early in their relationship because of their near 13-year age gap. Before explaining how the two met, the actor revealed that Fox was the on who "courted" him and spend lots of time trying to convince him she was "mature enough" to be in a relationship.
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"When I met her, she was not even 18 yet. So it was just like, this isn't even a conversation to have," he recalled. "She was really, really persistent. She had turned 18. She decided they'd finished doing Hope and Faith, so she moved back to Los Angeles. And she would not take no for an answer."
Green added that Fox's insistence is a part of "who she is," revealing how there's "not stopping her" once she gets her mind on something. At one point, he shared that Fox was at her wits end and "seemed like she had given up" on trying to pursue him.
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"Like now, looking back on it, I think it was part of the tactic because she's so incredibly smart," he joked. "But she got to a place where she was like, 'Okay, well, I'm just gonna like move on then, and I'm gonna start dating other people.' And I was like, 'Woah.'"
Green recalled, "So that was when I was like, 'Oh no, okay, let's just kinda see what this is.' And we got along great. Like, it was really, again, it was a breath of fresh air for me."
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