It’s been almost three years since Megan Fox ended her decade-long marriage to Brian Austin Green. Since then, she has fallen in love, gotten engaged, and then called off the engagement with Machine Gun Kelly, so of course, the past few years have been something of an emotional roller coaster. She hasn’t spoken in depth about her marriage and divorce that much since, so it’s interesting to finally get her perspective on what happened.
She was refreshingly honest about what went down, owning up to her mistakes but still opening up about what bothered or hurt her during the marriage. Something that really stood up was that she said she couldn’t commit to her husband completely because she fell in love with other people all the time while they were together.
Megan Fox Says She ‘Fell In Love’ With Other People While Married To Brian Austin Green
Megan Fox doesn’t really talk much about her marriage to Brian Austin Green, but during an interview on the “Call Her Daddy” podcast a few days ago, she opened up a bit about what went wrong, and took accountability for her part in it.
She admitted that she “was not a great girlfriend to Brian”, and part of that was because she couldn’t fully commit emotionally to her ex-husband. During their marriage, she would “falling in love with other people all the time,” which of course would make it hard to stay in a relationship.
But while nothing excuses having emotional affairs, there’s a good reason why she wasn’t ready for that kind of commitment, and that’s because she was 18 when she met Brian Austin Green, while he was in his early 30s.
“I would go to work and fall in love because I was a kid and, yeah, I never had the full freedom to be single and experience that life,” she explained. “I was young and really should not have been in a relationship of that level of commitment and that magnitude.”
The actress didn’t say she ever acted on those crushes she had on other people, but clearly, she was checked out of the relationship, so divorce was clearly the best option for them.
Megan Says Her Marriage Was ‘Unfulfilling’
Megan Fox and Brian Austin Green divorced in 2021, and it was the best decision they could have made. With a few years of perspective, Megan Fox can say with certainty that they wouldn’t have been happy staying together.
“I got myself into a relationship, which I of course found — no shade to Brian, unfulfilling,” she said. The reason she didn’t do anything about it before was because she had the idea that that’s what marriage is supposed to be. “That’s what I was going to do, because I was reenacting what I watched my mother do as a child,” she explained.
The actress still feels grateful for the marriage because it gave her their children. “I do feel like, karmically, I was supposed to have those kids with [Brian], of course.”
However, her love for the children made her feel she had to stay in the marriage, before she realized the kids would be happier if their parents were also happy. “I didn’t realize… you know, I wasn’t looking at myself being like, ‘Oh, I’m reenacting my mother’s life’ or ‘I’m carrying my mother’s burdens.'”
Megan Fox and Brian Austin Green keep a good co-parenting relationship despite everything, and about him, Megan said, “he was not great to me either all the time, but I think it would be easy for me to lean into and complain about [it] or let it seem like that relationship was one way.”