Brian Austin Green opened up about what his 15-year relationship with Megan Fox taught him about the best way to approach future connections.
“Until Sharna [Burgess], my ex and I were together for nearly 15 years. We were married for nearly 10 years and I led with physical attraction,” Green, 52, said on the Sunday, July 12, episode of the “I Do, Part 2” podcast. “First, I’d be physically interested in anyone after which kind of construct a relationship around that.”
Green selected a “different” approach with Burgess, 41.
“I used to be divorced, which I didn’t expect. I had three kids. I used to be a single parent,” he recalled. “And I knew that I didn’t wish to repeat things that I had done. So I went through all types of therapy and all types of things to actually determine what it was that I brought right into a relationship that was just toxic and wasn’t good and wasn’t helping the connection in any respect.”
After putting within the work, Green realized he needed to “be friends with someone first” before pursuing a romantic relationship.
“I believe while you began from a spot of a real reference to someone, you then’re not so concerned about whether or not they are truly into you or not,” he explained, “since you guys are already talking to one another in a really transparent way. Sharna and I talked about our greatest qualities and our worst qualities together. We kind of put all of it out on the table.”
Green was glad he built an emotional reference to Burgess first.
“For us, it was pretty apparent then like, ‘Oh, hey, we must always keep on with us. This appears to be working,’” he continued. “Your approach to a relationship is the perfect option to know if it’s only a purely physical connection. That’s only going to last for therefore long that you just’re going to get to some extent where you go, ‘I can’t stand that other person. So that they’re not hot to me anymore.’”
Green rose to fame on Beverly Hills, 90210, where he dated castmates Tori Spelling, Tiffani Thiessen and Vanessa Marcil. He later found love with Fox, 40, after meeting on the set of her sitcom Hope & Faith.
The pair began dating in 2004 and got engaged two years later. They briefly broke up in 2009 but eventually reconnected and tied the knot in 2010. Us Weekly exclusively reported in 2015 that Fox and Green had split, but they were back together by the next yr.
Though Fox filed for divorce in 2015, the case was dismissed in 2019 2019. Green announced in 2020 that he and Fox had split for good.
The exes share kids Noah, 13, Bodhi, 12,and Journey, 9. During Sunday’s podcast episode, Green spoke about coparenting along with his ex after their split.
“I do know I grieved the concept of missing half the lifetime of my kids. That meant lots to me. That was an enormous deal. Then I quickly realized, ‘Oh man, while they’re at their mom’s house, I get a probability to recharge,’” he explains. “Then after they come back over, I can provide all of them of my attention. And I’ve spent the 4 days out of the seven days or whatever it’s just caring for myself and being with my partner that I even have now and doing things for me so I don’t have that overwhelmed feeling the identical way when my kids come back.”
Green moved on with Burgess in 2020, competing together on season 30 of Dancing With the Stars. They welcomed their son, Zane, in 2022 and got engaged one yr later.
Fox, for her part, has been in an off-and-on relationship with Machine Gun Kelly since 2020. The pair share 16-month-old daughter Saga.