Their paths first crossed on the set of the ABC drama “Hope & Faith” in 2004, leading to a romance that saw the couple make it official by marrying in 2010.
Their marriage ended in divorce in 2020, but their relationship, which began when Green was 31 and Fox was 18, has been clouded by accusations that Green had ‘groomed’ Fox at a young age.
Here’s a detailed account of what Green has said regarding those allegations…
During a discussion on the “Old-ish” podcast, Green, now 51, shared insights with hosts Randy Spelling and Burgess. He recounted his relationship with Fox, which developed after he had already welcomed his son Kassius with former partner Vanessa Marcil, whom he worked with on “90210.”
Kassius, who is now 23, was born in 2002, and Green had initially planned to marry Marcil that year. However, they parted ways in 2003, and Fox entered his life in 2004.
Green explained that Fox took on a ‘very responsible’ role with his young son, stating on the podcast that she was deeply involved in the legal matters between him and Vanessa.
“It’s a lot at a young age,” he remarked. “It was amazing, but it was so much responsibility, I think she kind of just got to a point in her life where she was like: ‘I missed out on being a kid, like, being an irresponsible kid. I jumped in at just over 18 years old with a guy that had a two-year-old’,” he added.
The couple got engaged in 2006, ended things in 2009, but reconciled and wed on June 24, 2010.
Green admitted that the situation was ‘overwhelming’ for Fox.
“When she realized that, she wanted out quickly, which is then what made it hard for me. I understood it, but it doesn’t make it any less hard,” he said.
Fox approached Green with divorce papers for the first time in 2015 after the birth of their sons, Noah and Bodhi, born in 2012 and 2014, respectively.
Green described being unwell with ulcerative colitis at that time, while Fox was in New York working on the “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles” sequel, “Out of the Shadows.”
“I couldn’t even go with her because I couldn’t walk, I couldn’t do anything,” Green elaborated, noting that the break-up was unexpected. “I had to stay home and I was doing physical therapy, speech therapy, and all sorts of stuff. So the first time she wanted a divorce was when she came back from that. I didn’t even have the physical ability to, like, argue with her on it and fight for the relationship,” he said.
He admitted that her decision ‘killed’ him, yet they appeared to reconcile a year later.
After reuniting, Fox became pregnant again with their third child, Journey, born in 2016.
“Journey was born. Then we were just kind of back in the wheel … and it seemed like we were in a good place of like, ‘Oh, we’ve been through a lot together,” Green reflected. “We can do this. There’s no mountain that’s too high to climb. We’ve got this. This is all figured out. And then when she came to me again wanting a divorce, I was devastated.”
After a 15-year relationship marked by ups and downs, Fox ended things in 2020. She later began dating Machine Gun Kelly, with whom she shares a daughter, while Green became engaged to dancer Sharna May Burgess.
During the podcast, Green’s fiancé asked him why he hadn’t addressed the rumors of ‘grooming’ Fox when she was a teenager.
“I think it comes from my dad. He’s very good at cutting emotion out of something and just being logical in his choices,” Green replied.
“I really, logically understood that if I defend myself this one time, it’s never gonna stop. I’m gonna have to defend myself for who knows how long, because people are gonna believe what they wanna believe. So, to me, time is the only thing that regulates that. People spend more time seeing me not being that way and then they start questioning it and they start going, you know, ‘We’ve seen him for five years. We’ve never once seen him being controlling or hearing any other story from anyone else about.’ It’s the long game of it.”
Green continued: “The grooming stuff, the controlling stuff, it seems like that just continually lessens and lessens until I run into people now that are like, ‘Yeah, I used to think that, or that seemed to be the case,’ but they just genuinely don’t believe that anymore. And it’s not because of anything I said. It’s easy for people to say things to defend themselves.”