Minnie Driver is opening up about her past relationships.
In a new interview, the 54-year-old Good Will Hunting actress spoke candidly about briefly being engaged to Josh Brolin in 2001 and admitted that if they got married, it would have been the “biggest mistake” of her life.
Keep reading to find out more…While speaking to U.K.’s The Times, Minnie first brought up the family dynamic she grew up in. Minnie‘s father was married to another woman during his 16-year relationship with her mother. While Minnie‘s parents were never married, her father did have two families.
“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,” Minnie shared. “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.”
“The one time I was engaged [to Josh] it would have been, I think, the biggest mistake of my life,” she added.
Today, Minnie isn’t married, but has been in a committed relationship with writer-director Addison O’Dea since 2019.
“I’m with someone who doesn’t want to get married but who is the most devoted, loving, extraordinary,” Minnie gushed. “Everything I could have wanted in my childhood idea of a husband, he actually is.”
Also in the interview, Minnie talked about taking a break from acting when she first became mom to son Henry, now 15. She shares Henry with TV writer Timothy J. Lea.
“It’s why I stopped making movies, really consciously,” Minnie explained. “I called my agent and went, ‘OK, I’m having a baby and I would really like you to go and look for a show that’s called Shoots in Los Angeles and will pay me a regular wage.”
She continued, “I couldn’t be traveling. I couldn’t be taking a tiny baby to Romania — and I didn’t want to. As a single mum, I didn’t want him to have that uncertainty. I wanted him to have school and football and mates and tea and his own bed and our house.”
While taking a break from acting in movies, Minnie appeared on TV shows including About a Boy and Will & Grace, which gave her more time to spend at home with her son.
“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,” Minnie said.
In another recent interview, Minnie shared some rare comments about her relationship with ex Matt Damon.
