Brian Austin Green has finally addressed the long-standing allegation that he 'groomed' Megan Fox.
The Hollywood celebs met while filming on the set of ABC Drama Hope & Faith in 2004, after which Green and Fox dated before calling it official by tying the knot in 2010.
They went on to divorce in 2020, but their whirlwind relationship, which sparked when Green was 31 and Fox 18, has been marred by allegations that the Californian 90210 star had 'groomed' his co-star when she was young.
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Here's everything he's said about the allegation...
How Green and Fox got together
Speaking on the Old-ish podcast, the 51-year-old told co-hosts Randy Spelling and Burgess that he and Fox got together after he’d already welcomed his son Kassius into the world with ex-partner, Vanessa Marcil, whom he had worked with on 90210.
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Kassius, now 23, was born in 2002 and Green had planned to marry Marcil that year.
Yet they called it quits a year later, and Fox emerged on the scene in 2004.
Fox helped raise his two-year-old son
Green said Fox became 'very responsible' for his then-toddler, telling the podcast that she was 'involved in all of the legal stuff that was going on with Vanessa and I.'
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"It's a lot at a young age," he continued. "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’."
The couple became engaged in 2006, broke it off in 2009, and then got back together and married on June 24, 2010.
A 'hard' break-up
Green claimed the situation became 'overwhelming' for Fox.
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"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," he explained.
Fox first came to him with divorce papers in 2015 after the birth of their sons, Noah and Bodhi, born in 2012 and 2014 respectively.
Green said he was sick at the time with ulcerative colitis while Fox had been 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," Green explained, saying that the break-up was out of the blue. "I had to stay home and I was doing physical therapy, speech therapy and all sorts of stuff.
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“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.”
He added that her decision 'killed' him, but the pair appeared to make amends a year later.
Fox becomes pregnant again
After they got back together, Fox 'ended up pregnant again,' this time with their third child, Journey, who was born in 2016.
“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," Green said.
"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."
After 15 years of a somewhat rocky relationship, Fox finally called it quits for good in 2020, with the Transformers star going on to date Machine Gun Kelly, with whom she now shares a daughter, while Green got engaged to ballroom dancer Sharna May Burgess.
Allegations of 'grooming'
On the podcast, Green's fiancé asked him why he’d never tackled the rumors that he ‘groomed’ Fox when she was a teenager.
“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.”
Green continued: "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.”
Topics: Megan Fox, Celebrity, Machine Gun Kelly, Sex and Relationships, Hollywood, US News
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