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Leighton Meester<\/strong><\/a> might have heard that <\/span>Adam Brody<\/strong><\/a> was trouble, but ultimately she couldn\u2019t resist.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Over 10 years after <\/span>The Gossip Girl<\/span> star and<\/span> The O.C. <\/span>alum tied the knot in 2014 following a whirlwind romance, she admitted that they could\u2019ve gotten married even sooner, if not for her own reservations.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cA lot of the time there\u2019s false starts,\u201d Leighton explained to her <\/span>Gossip Girl<\/span> costar <\/span>Penn Badgley<\/strong> on his <\/a><\/span>Podcrushed <\/span><\/a>podcast Feb. 18<\/a>. \u201cLike, \u2018Oh I thought he liked my roommate.\u2019 And it turns out that was my husband the whole time. But I think I just had to see about a couple of other people first. Now, I go like, \u2018Why did I do that?\u2019 That was the wrong move, obviously. But was it?\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n Indeed, while Leighton agreed with Penn that timing is everything, she still felt she could\u2019ve saved herself a lot of it if she had just gone with her gut.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cHe is the right person,\u201d she continued. \u201cI would argue he\u2019s the right person for a lot of people. He\u2019s just a really good person.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.eonline.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Leighton Meester might have heard that Adam Brody was trouble, but ultimately she couldn\u2019t resist.\u00a0 Over 10 years after The Gossip Girl star and The O.C. alum tied the knot in 2014 following a whirlwind romance, she admitted that they could\u2019ve gotten married even sooner, if not for her own reservations.\u00a0 \u201cA lot of the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2098110,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25173],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2299286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artists"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Leighton-Meester-Adam-Brody-on-Kids-Acting-Future.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2299286","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2299286"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2299286\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2299287,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2299286\/revisions\/2299287"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2098110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2299286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2299286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2299286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}