Minnie Driver is aware her connection with Josh Brolin was never meant to be.
The “Good Will Hunting” actress, 54, said in an interview released this weekend that she’s happy she didn’t finish up marrying her ex-fiancé.
“The one particular time I was engaged, it would have been, I assume, the most significant miscalculation of my lifestyle,” she informed The Sunday Occasions.
Driver and Brolin, 56, fell in adore on the established of the 2000 movie “Slow Melt away.”
They ended up engaged for 6 months in advance of saying their breakup in October 2001.
“Minnie Driver and Josh Brolin have decided to terminate their marriage designs. Their determination is mutual and amicable,” a assertion from Driver’s publicist read through.
In her job interview with The Sunday Times, Driver said her mother and father by no means married thanks to her dad’s infidelities, which afflicted her have romantic interactions.
“If I look at my history, what it did was make me want to be married so considerably and then select men who ended up so not the suitable guys to be married to,” she claimed.
“So I would carry on longing to be married and to have that conservative variation [of a relationship], come across men who had no fascination in that, and then if just one did, operate a mile.”
Driver has been in a romantic relationship with author and director Addison O’Dea due to the fact 2019.
“Now I’m with someone who doesn’t want to get married but who is the most devoted, loving, extraordinary…. Everything I could have needed in my childhood plan of a husband, he essentially is,” she explained.
Ahead of her romance with Brolin, the “Ella Enchanted” star dated Matt Damon following they satisfied on the set of “Good Will Hunting” in the 1990s.
Their romance ended just shortly prior to the 1998 Academy Awards, and Damon, 53, introduced his new girlfriend to the ceremony.
Damon famously declared his break up with Driver on “The Oprah Winfrey Show” that calendar year.
“I was with Minnie for a while, but we’re not actually romantically included any more. We’re just actually excellent good friends, and I love her dearly … I care about her a great deal,” he explained. “We treatment about each and every other a large amount. It was not meant to be, you know? And if it is not intended to be, then it’s not intended to be.”
In 2022, Driver reflected on the split in an job interview with Amusement Tonight and mentioned the ordeal induced “agony” in her life.
“It’s so tricky, simply because it’s not deliberate, he could not have served how renowned he turned and how his everyday living was being picked over, in the exact same way that mine was,” she stated.
The two of Driver’s famous exes moved on from their respective splits.
Damon married Luciana Barroso in 2005 and the few share 3 daughters.
Brolin married Diane Lane in 2004, but they obtained divorced in 2013. He’s been married to Kathryn Boyd considering the fact that 2016, and they have to two youngsters jointly.
