Minnie Driver is aware of her relationship with Josh Brolin was by no means meant to be.
The “Good Will Searching” actress, 54, stated in an interview printed this weekend that she’s glad she didn’t find yourself marrying her ex-fiancé.
“The one time I used to be engaged, it might have been, I feel, the most important mistake of my life,” she instructed The Sunday Occasions.
Minnie Driver and Josh Brolin at “The Mod Squad” premiere in March 1999. Ron Galella Assortment through Getty Photographs
Josh Brolin and Minnie Driver on the “Return to Me” premiere in 2000. FilmMagic, Inc
Driver and Brolin, 56, fell in love on the set of the 2000 movie “Sluggish Burn.”
They have been engaged for six months earlier than saying their breakup in October 2001.
Minnie Driver and Josh Brolin in October 2000. Freelance Photographer
“Minnie Driver and Josh Brolin have determined to cancel their wedding ceremony plans. Their choice is mutual and amicable,” a press release from Driver’s publicist learn.
In her interview with The Sunday Occasions, Driver stated her mother and father by no means married as a consequence of her dad’s infidelities, which affected her personal romantic relationships.
Josh Brolin and Minnie Driver return from Hawaii in March 1999. Ron Galella Assortment through Getty Photographs
“If I take a look at my historical past, what it did was make me wish to be married a lot after which select males who have been so not the best males to be married to,” she stated.
“So I’d stick with it longing to be married and to have that conservative model [of a relationship], discover males who had little interest in that, after which if one did, run a mile.”
Minnie Driver on the Serpentine Summer season Occasion 2024 in London. WireImage for Serpentine Gallery
Minnie Driver and Josh Brolin fly to Hawaii in March 1999. Ron Galella Assortment through Getty Photographs
Driver has been in a relationship with author and director Addison O’Dea since 2019.
“Now I’m with somebody who doesn’t wish to get married however who’s probably the most devoted, loving, extraordinary…. All the pieces I might have wished in my childhood thought of a husband, he truly is,” she stated.
Earlier than her relationship with Brolin, the “Ella Enchanted” star dated Matt Damon after they met on the set of “Good Will Searching” within the Nineteen Nineties.
Their romance ended simply shortly earlier than the 1998 Academy Awards, and Damon, 53, introduced his new girlfriend to the ceremony.
Addison O’Dea and Minnie Driver in London on Feb. 18, 2023. Dave Benett/Getty Photographs
Damon famously introduced his breakup with Driver on “The Oprah Winfrey Present” that 12 months.
“I used to be with Minnie for some time, however we’re probably not romantically concerned anymore. We’re simply actually good mates, and I really like her dearly … I care about her rather a lot,” he stated. “We care about one another rather a lot. It wasn’t meant to be, ? And if it’s not meant to be, then it’s not meant to be.”
Minnie Driver on the 2024 CMT Music Awards. MBS/MEGA
In 2022, Driver mirrored on the break up in an interview with Leisure Tonight and stated the ordeal prompted “agony” in her life.
“It’s so tough, as a result of it’s not deliberate, he couldn’t have helped how well-known he turned and the way his life was being picked over, in the identical approach that mine was,” she stated.
Minnie Driver and Addison O’Dea on the “Chevalier” premiere on April 16, 2023. FilmMagic
Each of Driver’s well-known exes moved on from their respective splits.
Damon married Luciana Barroso in 2005 and the couple share three daughters.
Brolin married Diane Lane in 2004, however they received divorced in 2013. He’s been married to Kathryn Boyd since 2016, they usually have to 2 kids collectively.