Minnie Driver is reflecting on her past relationships and revealing one ex she would have regretted marrying. The 54-year-old actor recently spoke to about the struggles she has faced in Hollywood over the last few decades. During the interview, Driver also opened up about her family and how her childhood impacted her romantic relationships.
Driver told the outlet that when she was 12, she found out her father was married to another woman and had a second family with her. She learned the truth while arguing with her mother, who had been with her father for 16 years but never tied the knot. “As opposed to explaining to her kid what was going on, she told me in a fight, in a moment of rage, which was not good, but I understand it,” she said.
“Maybe that’s about getting older — all the faulted stuff about your parents you just go, ‘Oh yes, I know why they did that, because I did something similar last week.’” That revelation led Driver to examine how her parents’ relationship influenced the type of men she dated. “If I look at my history, what it did was make me want to be married so much and then choose men who were so not the right men to be married to,” she said.
“So I would carry on longing to be married and to have that conservative version (of a relationship), find men who had no interest in that, and then if one did, run a mile.” Driver specifically mentioned her relationship with actor Josh Brolin as an example of repeating that cycle. “The on.
