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Hello guys! Today, we're diving into Minnie Driver's shocking revelation about Josh Brolin! Could their marriage have been a disaster? Stay tuned to find out!

Minnie Driver reflects on her past romantic relationships and expresses gratitude for the paths not taken, particularly in her relationship with ex-fiancé Josh Brolin. The "Good Will Hunting" actress, now 54, met Brolin, 56, on the set of the 2000 film "Slow Burn." Their romance quickly blossomed, leading to an engagement the following year. However, less than six months into their engagement, Driver and Brolin mutually decided to call off their wedding and parted ways in October 2001. Driver has since looked back on this decision with relief, stating in a recent interview with The Sunday Times, "The one time I was engaged, it would have been, I think, the biggest mistake of my life." She elaborated that her past relationships, including the one with Brolin, involved men who were "not the right men to be married to."

Driver and Brolin’s split was friendly and mutual, with a representative for Driver stating at the time that the couple had never set a wedding date. Both have since moved on to other relationships. Brolin married Kathryn Boyd in 2016, while Driver found love with writer and director Addison O’Dea in 2019. Speaking of her current partner, Driver shared, "Now I’m with someone who doesn’t want to get married but who is the most devoted, loving, extraordinary … everything I could have wanted in my childhood idea of a husband, he is."

Reflecting on her romantic history, Driver attributed some of her past choices to her parents' rowdy relationship. Her father, Ronnie, was married to another woman throughout his 16-year relationship with Driver's mother, Gaynor Churchward. This revelation, which came out when Driver was 12, significantly impacted her view of relationships. "If I look at my history, what it did was make me want to be married so much and then choose men who were so not the right men to be married to," Driver explained. "So I would carry on longing to be married and to have that conservative version of a relationship, find men who had no interest in that, and then if one did, run a mile."

Before her relationship with Brolin, Driver was romantically linked to several high-profile figures, including her "Good Will Hunting" co-star Matt Damon. Their relationship ended shortly before Damon and Ben Affleck won the Oscar for Best Original Screenplay for the film in 1998. In a recent appearance on "The Jennifer Hudson Show," Driver reflected on that time, saying she wished she could tell her younger self, "Honey, it’s cool, like, you can celebrate, and life’s going to be great and beautiful and hard and amazing, and you’re gonna love again. It’ll be fine." She recalled feeling "devastated" seeing Damon and Affleck win the Oscar while she was still heartbroken from their recent breakup.



Throughout her career and personal life, Driver has learned valuable lessons about love and relationships. She shared with ELLE U.K. in 2021 her thoughts on how society encourages women to perceive love. "I have a big problem in the whole way that we’re encouraged to metabolize love, particularly as women," she said. "I think it’s grotesque because we’re not given very many options." Driver emphasized the importance of self-awareness and understanding what one truly wants in a partner, rather than just accepting love from whoever shows it at the moment.

Driver didn’t go into detail about why following through on her engagement to Brolin would have been a mistake but spoke highly of her current beau, American writer, and director Addison O’Dea, to whom she has been linked for about six years. “Now I’m with someone who doesn’t want to get married but who is the most devoted, loving, extraordinary… Everything I could have wanted in my childhood idea of a husband, he is,” she said.

Driver is mother to a 15-year-old son, Henry, from a brief past relationship. When she became pregnant, she pivoted and focused on TV roles that would let her spend time at home with him. “It was so lovely because with what you consciously give your children, you can perhaps at the same time be giving yourself the thing that you did not have,” she said. The star opened up about how her father's disloyalties impacted her romantic life, including her 2001 engagement to Brolin.

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