Sometimes, to answer a current question, you have to look to the past. In a new interview with British journalist The timesPublished on Saturday, the actor Minnie Driver She revealed that thinking about her parents’ relationship has given her a new perspective on her own love life, including her brief past engagement to fellow actor. Josh Brolin.
“The one time I got engaged I think it would have been the biggest mistake of my life,” she said, without mentioning Brolin by name. The two met on the set of the 1998 film Slow combustion and got engaged in April 2001, but then called off their engagement in October 2001 without setting a wedding date. According to the BBC At the time, the split was “amicable and mutual.”
In the new interview, Driver reflects on his childhood and discovering, at age 12, that his father, Ronnie Driver, was married to another woman and had another family with her, despite his 16-year relationship with Minnie’s mother, Gaynor Churchward. When Minnie was 6, Gaynor walked out on him, and his double life was later revealed to the teenage Minnie during an argument.
Her parents’ relationship influenced her future romantic life, she said.
“If I look at my history, what it did was I wanted to get married and then I chose men who weren’t the right ones to marry,” she said. “So I kept wanting to get married and have that conservative version (of a relationship), find men who weren’t interested in that and if any of them were, run away.”
She didn’t go into detail about why going ahead with her previous engagement to Brolin would have been a mistake, but she did speak highly of her current boyfriend, the American writer and director. Addison O’Deawith whom he has maintained a relationship for about six years.
“I’m now with someone who doesn’t want to get married but who is the most devoted, loving, extraordinary man… Everything I could have ever wanted in my childhood idea of a husband, he truly is,” she said.
The driver is the mother of a 15-year-old son. Enriquefrom a brief previous relationship. When she became pregnant, she changed her attitude and concentrated on television roles that would allow her to spend time at home with him.
“It was very nice because with what you consciously give to your children, perhaps you can at the same time be giving yourself what you didn’t have before,” she said.
Representatives for Josh Brolin did not immediately respond. Vanity FairRequest for comments from.
