Brian Austin Green is addresses his reason for speaking out about his “toxic” relationship with ex Vanessa Marcil.
“Everything that’s come [out] recently has genuinely been for the purpose of speaking about a relationship,” Green, 51, told People at the 32nd Annual Race to Erase MS Gala on Friday, May 16, adding that he doesn’t regret calling the former couple’s relationship “toxic.”
“It’s not pointing fingers, placing blame on anyone,” he continued. “If she takes things that way, then there’s nothing I can do about it. It’s pretty obvious just in listening to the things that I say and what it is we do on our show, that’s not our intention.”
Instead, Green explained, his intention is “to help people” — especially people who “go through toxic” and “tough situations.”
“The best you can do is be open and honest about it and hopefully steer other people clear of those situations or help them get through them,” the 90210 star added.
Green’s comments came after he spoke about his mother’s tendency to smother him on the “Oldish” podcast alongside his partner, Sharna Burgess, and Randy Spelling.
“If I’m looking for a woman, I want the complete opposite of that,” he said on the May 5 show. “I had some major missteps because of that. I mean, the relationship that I had with Vanessa was very toxic in that way. Like, it wasn’t a loving, caring relationship.”
He also said he thought his ex was “trying to help me and fix me and get me through things” but that “after two years or so, you’re kinda looking at yourself in the mirror and you’re like, ‘Who am I at this point?”
“So that relationship ended up not working out,” he continued. “Then Megan [Fox], she was a breath of fresh air, coming out of what felt like Vietnam to me.”
Green and Marcil met on the set of Beverly Hills: 90210 in the late 1990s and got engaged in 2001. Their son, Kassius Lijah Marcil-Green, was born on March 30, 2002. The pair broke up soon after, in 2003. The actor moved on with Fox, 39, and the pair got married in 2010 before welcoming three children, Noah, Bodhi, and Journey. They called it quits in 2021, with Fox moving on with rapper Machine Gun Kelly while Green is now engaged to Burgess. The pair welcomed their child, Zane, in 2022.
In response to Green’s initial comments, Marcil shared alleged text message exchanges between the pair, primarily focused on coparenting Kassius. In one alleged exchange, one coparent’s schedule was shared before a follow up text asking, “Father’s Day?” (The screenshots shared via Instagram Stories have since been deleted or expired.)
