Brian Austin Green finally addresses long-standing allegation he 'groomed' ex-wife Megan Fox at 18 years old

Brian Austin Green admits the end of his and Megan Fox’s relationship in 2015 ‘killed’ him as the Beverly Hills, 90210 actor speaks out on claims he ‘groomed’ the Transformers actress.

After meeting on the set of the ABC Drama Hope & Faith in 2004, Green, 51, and Fox, 38, dated on and off before tying the knot in 2010.

The former couple, who were respectively 31 and 18 when they began their courtship, initially broke up in 2015 before getting back together a year later.

However, in 2020, they filed for divorce for a second time, with Fox going on to date Machine Gun Kelly, 35, and Green eventually getting engaged to ballroom dancer Sharna May Burgess, 39.

In a new update, the star has addressed claims that he ‘groomed’ the Jennifer’s Body star from a young age.

On Monday’s instalments of his Old-ish podcast, Green told co-hosts Randy Spelling and Burgess that he and Fox got together after he’d already welcomed his 23-year-old son Kassius into the world with ex-partner, Vanessa Marcil, 56.

Megan Fox and Brian Austin Green share three children together (Jonathan Leibson / Stringer / Getty)

“So she became very responsible for his well-being and was involved in all of the legal stuff that was going on with Vanessa and I, and it’s a lot at a young age,” he began.

“It was amazing, but it was so much responsibility, I think she kind of just got to a point in her life where she was like: ‘I missed out on being a kid, like, being an irresponsible kid.

“’I jumped in at just over 18 years old with a guy that had a two-year-old’,” Green continued.

“I think it became overwhelming for her. When she realized that, she wanted out quickly, which is then what made it hard for me. I understood it, but it doesn’t make it any less hard.”

Green went on to claim that Fox initially came to him with divorce plans after the birth of their sons Noah, 12, and Bodhi, 11.

He claimed he was sick with ulcerative colitis at the time while she was in New York working on the sequel to Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Out of the Shadows.

“I couldn’t even go with her because I couldn’t walk, I couldn’t do anything. I had to stay home and I was doing physical therapy, speech therapy and all sorts of stuff,” he confessed.

“So the first time she wanted a divorce was when she came back from that. I didn’t even have the physical ability to, like, argue with her on it and fight for the relationship.”

Green claimed the decision 'killed [him]', claiming their break-up was out of ‘nowhere’.

After getting back together, he said that he and Megan ‘ended up getting pregnant again’, this time with their third child, Journey, eight.

“Journey was born. Then we were just kind of back in the wheel … and it seemed like we were in a good place of like, ‘Oh, we’ve been through a lot together. We can do this.

“There’s no mountain that’s too high to climb. We’ve got this. This is all figured out.

“And then when she came to me again wanting a divorce, I was devastated.”

The former couple met on the set of an ABC drama (Kevin Winter / Staff / Getty)

After 15 years of being in a relationship, Fox called it quits once again in 2020, later embarking on a relationship with rapper and actor MGK, with whom she shares a daughter.

During the Old-ish recording, Green’s current fiancé asked him why he’d never clarified rumors that he ‘groomed’ Fox from a young age.

“I think it comes from my dad. He’s very good at cutting emotion out of something and just being logical in his choices,” he said in response.

“I really, logically understood that if I defend myself this one time, it’s never gonna stop. 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. 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.’ It’s the long game of it.”

He continued to say: “The grooming stuff, the controlling stuff, it seems like that just continually lessens and lessens until I run into people now that are like, ‘Yeah, I used to think that, or that seemed to be the case,’ but they just genuinely don’t believe that anymore.

“And it’s not because of anything I said. It’s easy for people to say things to defend themselves.”

Green added that ‘actions’ are what truly paint a picture and tell a story,’ before claiming he has ‘no regrets’ about his relationship with Fox.