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Brian Austin Green tells PEOPLE his reasons for speaking out about his relationship with ex Vanessa Marcil
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The actor says “it’s not pointing fingers, placing blame on anyone”
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Marcil shared an alleged text exchange between her and Beverly Hills, 90210 alum following his initial comments
Brian Austin Green is revealing why he chose to speak out about ex Vanessa Marcil.
When asked if he had any regrets after calling his relationship with the actress “toxic,” the Beverly Hills, 90210 alum, 51, told PEOPLE at 32nd Annual Race To Erase MS Gala on May 16, “No, because everything that’s come recently has genuinely been for the purpose of speaking about a relationship.”
“It’s not pointing fingers, placing blame on anyone,” he added. “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.”
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Brian Austin Green attends the 32nd Annual Race To Erase MS Gala at Fairmont Century Plaza on May 16, 2025 in Los Angeles, California.
“Our intention is to help people. And people go through toxic situations and tough situations and 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 gala, which supports research and therapeutic approaches to eradicate MS through the foundation’s Center Without Walls program, came less than two weeks after the actor shared how his mother’s tendency of “smothering him” impacted romantic relationships on an episode of his Oldish podcast with fiancée Sharna Burgess and Randy Spelling.
“If I’m looking for a woman, I want the complete opposite of that,” he explained. “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.”
Green claimed on the episode that he thought Marcil was “trying to help me and fix me and get me through things,” but “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,” he said of the beginning of his relationship with his ex- wife.
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From left: Vanessa Marcil & Brian Austin Green during Kevin Spacey Party to the Residents of The Motion Picture & Television Fund’s Retirement Community at Private House in Beverly Hills, California, United States.
Green and Marcil began dating in the late 1990s after meeting on the set of Beverly Hills, 90210. They got engaged in the summer of 2001 and welcomed Kassius Lijah Marcil-Green, 23, on March 30, 2002, though they split not long after in 2003.
In response to the claims, Marcil, 56, shared a photo in a since-deleted Instagram post of what appeared to be a text exchange between the two.
Marcil began the conversation with what seemed to be a photo of their son sitting in a car. “When was that?” Green allegedly asked, while Marcil replied, “Yesterday was his graduation.”
“You did a really great job. He’s an amazing person,” the actor allegedly wrote. The message ended with Marcil writing, “Thank you.”
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Green also shares three children: sons Noah Shannon, Bodhi Ransom and Journey River, with his ex-wife, Megan Fox. He welcomed his fifth child, Zane Walker, with Burgess in June 2022.
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