Minnie Driver looks back on what could have been and is glad she took a different path.
The “Good Will Hunting” actress said she knew her romance with ex-fiancé Josh Brolin was doomed.
Driver, 54, met the Marvel actor, 56, on the set of the 2000 film “Slow Burn.”
The couple soon fell in love and Brolin was quick to pop the all-important question the following year.
But less than six months after their engagement, the duo called off their wedding and split in October 2001.
“Minnie Driver and Josh Brolin have decided to cancel their wedding plans. Their decision is mutual and amicable,” a rep for the actress said at the time, adding that the couple never set a date.
Looking back, she’s glad she never did it, that she never walked down the aisle.
“The one time I got engaged, I think it would have been the biggest mistake of my life,” she told The Sunday Times in a new interview, adding that her exes “weren’t the right men to marry.”
The exes have since moved on, with Brolin marrying Kathryn Boyd in 2016.
Driver, meanwhile, found love with writer-director Addison O’Dea in 2019.
“But now I’m with someone who doesn’t want to get married but is the most devoted, loving, extraordinary… everything I could have ever wanted in my childhood idea of a husband, he truly is,” she told the outlet about her current boyfriend.
Elsewhere in the interview, Driver said his parents never married because of his father’s infidelities, which in turn affected his own romantic relationships.
“If I look at my history, what it did was make me want to get married so badly and then choose men who weren’t the right ones to marry,” she explained.
“So I would still crave marriage and have that conservative version (of a relationship), I would find men who weren’t interested in that and if any of them were, I would run away.”
Before her failed romance with Brolin, Driver was romantically linked to Matt Damon.
Earlier this year, Driver revealed what he would tell his 25-year-old self when his ex Matt Damon won an Oscar in 1998, shortly after their breakup.
“I wish I could tell her, ‘Honey, it’s OK, you can celebrate, life is going to be wonderful and beautiful and difficult and wonderful, and you’re going to love again. Everything is going to be OK,'” the actress said on the “Jennifer Hudson Show.”
Driver made headlines three months ago when she admitted she was “devastated” to see Ben Affleck and Damon –– who had since moved on and was dating Winona Ryder –– win the Oscar for best original screenplay for their joint film, “Good Will Hunting.”
“I want to put my arms around that young lady and hug her and say, ‘It’s going to be OK, honey, don’t worry,'” Driver told Hudson.
The “Circle of Friends” actress explained that she and Damon had “recently broken up” and that she was still “totally heartbroken” and “terrified” at the time of the annual awards show.
