Marrying Josh Brolin would have been “the biggest mistake”

Not only is Minnie Driver a really popular star, she’s also been linked to some pretty popular stars, from Matt Damon to Josh Brolin. While she recently spoke fondly about the romance she had with Damon in the 1990s, she had a very different story to tell with her ex-fiancé Brolin.

In a recent interview with the Sunday Times, the Hunting for good will The star called the idea of ​​marrying Brolin the “biggest mistake of my life.”

“When I was engaged, I think it was the biggest mistake of my life,” she said. “When I look back at my past, it led me to wanting to be married so badly and then choosing men who were absolutely not the right ones. So I kept wanting to be married and having this conservative version (of a relationship), finding men who weren’t interested in that, and when they were, I left.”

For those who need a recap, Driver and Brolin met and fell in love on the set of the 2000 film. Slow burning. They got engaged in 2000 and split after six months of engagement in October 2001. They kept their romance a secret from the public and even today not much is known about it.

Although they split, Driver eventually found the perfect man for her: writer and director Addison O’Dea. The couple has been together since 2019, and in the same interview, she gushed about him, saying that he was basically her perfect partner.

“Now I’m with someone who doesn’t want to get married, but is the most devoted, loving, special person… He actually has everything I wanted in a husband as a child,” she said.

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