Brian Austin Green Recalls Getting to a Point in Marriage to Megan Fox That 'Everything Annoyed Her'

Brian Austin Green is shedding new light on the end of his relationship with Megan Fox.

Green, 51, and Fox, 38, were married for 10 years and together for 16 before they split in 2020. And on the Oct. 29 episode of Tori Spelling's misSPELLING podcast, the Beverly Hills, 90210 actor was candid about the state of their relationship towards its end.

Spelling, 51, recalled Green telling her how "it annoyed Megan when you chewed because she thought she could hear it." The memory came to mind for Spelling because her own daughter now has similar complaints.

"I remember thinking at the time, like, 'How bad could it be? She loves him. Why like — that really bothers her?' But now my daughter's like, 'Mom, I can hear you chewing,' and I always think of you. I'm like, 'God,'" Spelling said.

"It's an age thing maybe," Green responded. "I don't know. I know it just always bothered her."

Looking back, he said, "I honestly think that the chewing thing was just like, she'd gotten to the point, I think, where things just weren't great, so I was just... It was... Everything was annoying her.  Which happens in relationships. I get it."

"You kinda get to that point where you're like, God, just the way you're shuffling your feet right now, the way you're putting that toast in the toaster is just driving you crazy. It's all that stupid little stuff, you know," Green continued of how things began to dwindle between him and Fox, with whom he shares three sons: Noah, 10, Bodhi, 9, and Journey, 6.

"That, to me, is when you have to make the choice of going, okay, we either are gonna go into therapy and we're gonna try and find, like, our connection and figure out what's going on now, or these things are gonna sink us."

Green and Fox called off their marriage in May 2020, which Green announced on a candid episode of his podcast as he opened up about the distance they'd been experiencing in their relationship and the time apart they'd taken. "Since the end of the year, we've really been trying to be apart and figure out what life is now. It's a big chance for both of us," he said.

At the time, he also clarified that "cheating" had not led to the end of the relationship, despite speculation about Fox's relationship with Machine Gun Kelly.

The actress filed for divorce from Green in November 2020, days after she made her red carpet debut with Machine Gun Kelly at the American Music Awards. The pair have been together ever since, and the rapper, 34, proposed in January 2022, but it's unclear whether they are still engaged.

Since his split from Fox, Green has also gone on to find love again. He is now engaged to Dancing with the Stars alum Sharna Burgess, with whom he welcomed a son, Zane, in 2022.

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Co-parenting with his ex and his current fiancée has gone smoothly for the actor, as he said they are all "one big family."

"We do share so much and she now shares so much with Sharna, and they have an amazing connection and friendship and mutual respect and love for each other because of that," he said on Whine Down with Jana Kramer last year.

"[Megan's] very much a part of our life, and we'll always be connected because of the kids. So we are all a family," Burgess, 39, said, adding that "there's no bad feelings there."