Brian Austin Green thought he was Megan Fox’s twin flame.
Five years after he and the Jennifer’s Body star—who share kids Noah, 12, Bodhi, 11, and Journey, 8—broke up spring in 2020, the Beverly Hills, 90210 alum reflected on herbeginning a high-profile romance with Machine Gun Kelly just a few months later.
“It was a quick moving thing,” Brian—who admitted he was “devastated” by Megan wanting a divorce—admitted on the Oldish podcast May 5. “It went from, ‘Hey we should get a divorce’ to all of a sudden like, ‘Hey my twin flame,’ and ‘I manifested him.’”
However, the 51-year-old—whose battle with ulcerative colitis left him bedridden for years just before his divorce—noted that his health issues helped him get through that difficult life chapter.
“Because of the health stuff I had gone through at the point when she approached me and the Machine Gun Kelly stuff and everything was happening,” Brian recalled, “I was genuinely in a place of with all of the stuff I’ve dealt with, ‘I can deal with this,’ Like, ‘This is not going to kill me, the other thing could’ve killed me’ I’ll be okay.”
Still, he admitted that watching Megan and MGK—who broke up in December just a few months before welcoming their first baby together—have such a connection was “really hard.”
As he recalled, “I had absolute moments of jealousy and all the normal things you go through.”
The Desperate Housewives alum—who also shares Kassius, 21, with ex Vanessa Marcil and Zane, 2, with fiancée Sharna Burgess—couldn’t even blame Megan at the time, despite being heartbroken.
“I loved her,” he admitted. “I didn’t want to bad mouth her. Even though it was a s–tty situation I really didn’t want to bad mouth her and I wanted the best for her, begrudgingly. Some emotions are not mutually exclusive.”
Ultimately, Brian, whose divorce from the Transformers star was finalized in 2021, understood why Megan, 38, moved on to such a whirlwind romance with the “Bad Things” rapper.
“Things got too responsible for her too young,” he explained. “She just got to a point in her life where she was like, ‘I missed out on being an irresponsible kid. I jumped in at just over 18 years old with a guy that had a 2-year-old and it was like family right away.”
Indeed, Brian said that from his perspective, Megan and MGK, 35, made sense.
As he put it, “I think when she realized that she wanted out quickly, which was then what made it hard for me.”
To reinvest Megan and MGK’s romance, keep reading…
July 2020: How They Met
The couple did their first podcast together and detailed how they met on the set of the movie Midnight in the Switchglass. They also became Instagram official in July when MGK posted a selfie of the couple with the caption, “Waited for eternity to find you again…”
August 2020: Megan Professes Her Love
The actress shared the first photo of herself with her new man captioning it, “Achingly Beautiful Boy… My heart is yours.”
November 2020: Red Carpet Official
The couple made their first red carpet appearance at the American Music Awards. The same month, the actress files for divorce from estranged husband Brian Austin Green, with whom she shares three sons.
April 2021: Double Birthday Date
Double date! The duo celebrates MGK’s birthday with friends Kourtney Kardashian and boyfriend Travis Barker.
May 2021: iHeartRadio Music Awards
Pretty in pink! Megan supports Machine Gun Kelly as they attend the iHeartRadio Music Awards in Los Angeles.
May 2021: Billboard Music Awards
The lovebirds arrive at the 2021 Billboard Music Awards in Los Angeles.
May 2021: Onstage Love
The two appear onstage during the rocker’s show at the Barstool Sports Indy 500 party at Grand Park in Westfield, Indiana.
January 2022: We’re Engaged
New year, new relationship status! On Jan. 12, 2022, Megan Fox and Machine Gun Kelly announced on Instagram that they were engaged. “Yes, in this life and every life,” the musician wrote on Instagram.
October 2022: Pam & Tommy
The two dressed up as Pamela Anderson and ex-husband Tommy Lee at the annual Casamigos Halloween party.
February 2023: Grammys Date Night
The two embraced on the red carpet on music’s biggest night.
May 2023: London Date Night
Megan supported MGK at the unveiling of The 8th Deadly Sin – GOSSIP, a limited-edition ring collection collab by the musician and Stephen Webster in London.
October 2023: Happy Halloween
The two also partied at Vas Morgan and Michael Braun‘s Halloween party.
October 2023: Kill Bill Couple
The two appeared at the annual Casamigos Halloween party.
March 2024: Megan Gives Relationship Update
The actress confirmed that she and MGK had at one point called off their engagement.
“What I’ve learned from being in this relationship is that it’s not for public consumption,” she said on the Call Her Daddy podcast. “So I think as of now, I don’t have a comment on like the status of the relationship.”
She continued, “What I can say is, that is what I refer to as being my ‘twin soul’, and there will always be a tether to him no matter what.”
November 2024: Baby on Board
The couple shared that they were expecting a baby together with Megan writing on Instagram, “Nothing is ever really lost. Welcome back,” alongside a photo posing naked covered in black paint and holding her baby bump.
She also included a picture of a pregnancy test with the word, “Yes.”
November-December 2024: Breakup
In late November, shortly after confirming Megan’s pregnancy, the duo called it quits, multiple outlets reported Dec. 10.
March 2025: It’s a Girl!
The duo welcomed daughter on March 27, 2025. According to MGK, Megan gave birth while listening to a score composed by himself and pal Travis Barker.
The rocker said he named their baby girl Saga Blade Fox-Baker because she’s the five-year culmination of “coming, disappearing, coming back again, disappearing, coming back again.”
“She is an epic story,” he told Today. “That’s what saga means.”
