{"id":2500095,"date":"2026-07-13T13:08:29","date_gmt":"2026-07-13T13:08:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2500095"},"modified":"2026-07-13T13:08:29","modified_gmt":"2026-07-13T13:08:29","slug":"brian-austin-green-shares-lessons-from-megan-fox-relationship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/brian-austin-green-shares-lessons-from-megan-fox-relationship\/","title":{"rendered":"Brian Austin Green Shares Lessons From Megan Fox Relationship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/celebrities\/brian-austin-green\/\"><strong>Brian Austin Green<\/strong><\/a> opened up about what his 15-year relationship with <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/celebrities\/megan-fox\/\"><strong>Megan Fox<\/strong><\/a> taught him about how to approach future connections.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUntil <strong>Sharna [Burgess]<\/strong>, my ex and I were together for almost 15 years. We were married for almost 10 years and I led with physical attraction,\u201d Green, 52, said on the Sunday, July 12, episode of the <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.iheart.com\/podcast\/1119-i-do-part-2-217695028\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u201cI Do, Part 2\u201d podcast<\/a>. \u201cFirst, I\u2019d be physically attracted to somebody and then sort of build a relationship around that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Green <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/celebrity-news\/pictures\/megan-foxs-dating-history-brian-austin-green-machine-gun-kelly\/\">chose a \u201cdifferent\u201d approach<\/a> with Burgess, 41.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was divorced, which I didn\u2019t expect. I had three kids. I was a single parent,\u201d he recalled. \u201cAnd I knew that I didn\u2019t want to repeat things that I had done. So I went through all sorts of therapy and all sorts of things to really figure out what it was that I brought into a relationship that was just toxic and wasn\u2019t good and wasn\u2019t helping the relationship at all.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>After putting in the work, Green realized he needed to \u201cbe friends with someone first\u201d before pursuing a romantic relationship.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think when you started from a place of a genuine connection with someone, then you\u2019re not so concerned about whether they are truly into you or not,\u201d he explained, \u201cbecause you guys are already speaking to each other in a very transparent way. Sharna and I talked about our best qualities and our worst qualities together. We sort of put it all out on the table.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Green was glad he built <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/celebrity-news\/pictures\/sharna-burgess-brian-austin-greens-relationship-timeline-pics\/\">an emotional connection with Burgess first.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor us, it was pretty apparent then like, \u2018Oh, hey, we should stick with us. This seems to be working,&#8217;\u201d he continued. \u201cYour approach to a relationship is the best way to know if it\u2019s just a purely physical connection. That\u2019s only going to last for so long that you\u2019re going to get to a point where you go, \u2018I can\u2019t stand that other person. So they\u2019re not hot to me anymore.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Green rose to fame on Beverly Hills, 90210, where he dated castmates <strong>Tori Spelling, Tiffani Thiessen<\/strong> and <strong>Vanessa Marcil<\/strong>. He later found love with Fox, 40, after meeting on the set of her sitcom <em>Hope &amp; Faith<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The pair began dating in 2004 and got engaged two years later. They briefly broke up in 2009 but eventually reconnected and tied the knot in 2010. Us Weekly exclusively reported in 2015 that Fox and Green had split, but they were back together by the following year.<\/p>\n<p>Though Fox filed for divorce in 2015, the case was dismissed in 2019 2019. Green announced in 2020 that he and Fox had split for good.<\/p>\n<p>The exes share kids Noah, 13, Bodhi, 12,and Journey, 9. During Sunday\u2019s podcast episode, Green spoke about coparenting with his ex after their split.<\/p>\n<div id=\"news-block\">\n<div class=\"newsletter-form  \">\n\t<br \/>\n\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/themes\/us-weekly\/assets\/img\/newsletter-bg-wide.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"newsletter-form__background background-wide\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"newsletter-signup__success\" aria-live=\"polite\">\n<h3>Thank You!<\/h3>\n<p>You have successfully subscribed.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p>\u201cI know I grieved the concept of missing half the life of my kids. That meant a lot to me. That was a big deal. Then I quickly realized, \u2018Oh man, while they are at their mom\u2019s house, I get a chance to recharge,\u2019\u201d he explains. \u201cThen when they come back over, I can give them all of my attention. And I\u2019ve spent the four days out of the seven days or whatever it is just taking care of myself and being with my partner that I have now and doing things for me so I don\u2019t have that overwhelmed feeling the same way when my kids come back.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Green moved on with Burgess in 2020, competing together on season 30 of <em>Dancing With the Stars<\/em>. They welcomed their son, Zane, in 2022 and got engaged one year later.<\/p>\n<p>Fox, for her part, has been in an <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/celebrity-news\/pictures\/megan-fox-and-machine-gun-kellys-relationship-timeline\/\">off-and-on relationship with <strong>Machine Gun Kelly<\/strong><\/a> since 2020. The pair share 16-month-old daughter Saga.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.usmagazine.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brian Austin Green opened up about what his 15-year relationship with Megan Fox taught him about how to approach future connections. \u201cUntil Sharna [Burgess], my ex and I were together for almost 15 years. We were married for almost 10 years and I led with physical attraction,\u201d Green, 52, said on the Sunday, July 12, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2354101,"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":[25177],"tags":[24003,21738],"class_list":["post-2500095","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-celebrity-news","tag-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/The-Valleys-Zack-Warns-Theres-More-Amanda-West-Drama.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2500095","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=2500095"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2500095\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2500096,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2500095\/revisions\/2500096"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2354101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2500095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2500095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2500095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}