Brian Austin Green has full trust in his relationship with fiancée Sharna Burgess.
“I think if you’re brand new in a relationship and you’re not even to the point where you’ve made it official with other people, something’s wrong if you’re feeling the need to go through that person’s text messages,” Green, 52, said while appearing on the Saturday, July 11, episode of the “I Do, Part 2” podcast. “I think it’s important for you to take a step back from it and decide how much is truly the other person and how much of it is your own stuff.”
He went on to acknowledge that it can be difficult for people to fall out of toxic habits when they’ve been burnt in past relationships, though Green said people shouldn’t carry those concerns into new relationships.
The Beverly Hills, 90210 alum then applied the question to his current relationship with Burgess, 41.
“To me a healthy relationship, everything’s open. Sharna can go through my phone. She can go through my emails. She can go through absolutely everything that I have,” he said. “I don’t hide any of it and I love the feeling of her being able to do that and know that she’s not gonna find anything that’s gonna upset her.”
Green continued, “I make[it] very clear in my life that I’m not gonna make any choices that would hurt her feelings or negatively affect her. I won’t make any choices that compromise the relationship in any way.”
The couple began dating in late 2020, making their relationship Instagram official in January 2021. Green and Burgess welcomed their son, Zane, in June 2022 before they got engaged in September 2023.
Prior to his romance with Burgess, Green was married to Megan Fox from 2010 until their divorce was finalized in 2021.
Also during the podcast episode, Green opened up about how his relationship with Fox, 40, taught him about how to approach future romances.
“Until Sharna, my ex and I were together for almost 15 years. We were married for almost 10 years and I led with physical attraction,” he said. “First, I’d be physically attracted to somebody and then sort of build a relationship around that.”
He then said that he chose a “different” approach with Burgess.
“I was divorced, which I didn’t expect. I had three kids. I was a single parent,” Green shared. “And I knew that I didn’t want to repeat things that I had done. So I went through all sorts of therapy and all sorts of things to really figure out what it was that I brought into a relationship that was just toxic and wasn’t good and wasn’t helping the relationship at all.”
Green ultimately learned that he needed to “be friends with someone first” before their relationship could turn romantic.
“I think when you started from a place of a genuine connection with someone, then you’re not so concerned about whether they are truly into you or not,” he said. “Because you guys are already speaking to each other in a very transparent way. Sharna and I talked about our best qualities and our worst qualities together. We sort of put it all out on the table.”
