After figuring out early on how to make co-parenting work, Brian Austin Green says he and Megan Fox are still on “great” terms to this day.
While appearing on the Inside of You with Michael Rosenbaum podcast, Green explained that both he and Fox had to come to terms with how the breakdown of their relationship ultimately led to their divorce. The 52-year-old actor said they had to let go of the idea that co-parenting their three children meant they needed to be close friends.
“I only care about the health and wellness of my kids,” he said. “You’re gonna parent how you do, I’m gonna parent how I do.”
Green added, “I wish her the best because she’s the mother of three of my kids, and also because I know her so well.”
Green began dating Fox in 2004, when she was 18, and they got engaged two years later. After briefly calling off the engagement, they reconciled and married in 2010. In 2020, Green announced their split after nearly a decade of marriage and three children, with their divorce finalized the following year.
Fox admitted last year on the Call Your Daddy podcast that she “was not a great girlfriend” to Green, saying she “did a lot of falling in love with other people all the time.”
“I was not great. Because I was young and really should not have been in a relationship of that level of commitment and magnitude,” she said. “I shouldn’t have been involved in that when I was 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23; I shouldn’t have been.”
She added that Green “was not great to me either all the time,” before shifting the focus back to her own mistakes in the relationship.
Green told Rosenbaum that as they moved toward separation, they agreed that “we can’t keep this from affecting our kids, but it’s up to us, how we affect our kids.”
He explained that they could either put their children in the middle of ongoing conflict or work to make their new family dynamic a “great situation,” which is why he makes a point not to speak negatively about Fox.
