{"id":29006,"date":"2019-08-15T18:27:58","date_gmt":"2019-08-16T00:27:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/b1065403"},"modified":"2019-08-15T18:27:58","modified_gmt":"2019-08-16T00:27:58","slug":"um-brian-austin-green-initially-rejected-a-really-persistent-megan-fox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/music-news\/um-brian-austin-green-initially-rejected-a-really-persistent-megan-fox\/","title":{"rendered":"Um, Brian Austin Green Initially Rejected a &#8221;Really Persistent&#8221; Megan Fox"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"photo-txt-0\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"39.244212962963\">\n<div class=\"column post-content__image--left post-content__image\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\"> <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image--full\" src=\"https:\/\/akns-images.eonline.com\/eol_images\/Entire_Site\/2019715\/rs_634x1024-190815170420-634-brian-austin-green-megan-fox.jpg?fit=inside|900:auto&amp;output-quality=90\" title=\"Brian Austin Green, Megan Fox\" alt=\"Brian Austin Green, Megan Fox\"><\/p>\n<p class=\"image__credits\">BACKGRID<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-photo-text\" readability=\"21.047953216374\">\n<p>It&#8217;s safe to say that&nbsp;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/brian_austin_green\">Brian Austin Green<\/a><\/strong> and&nbsp;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/megan_fox\">Megan Fox<\/a><\/strong> got off to a rocky start.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In fact, they almost didn&#8217;t date at all. On Barstool Radio&#8217;s&nbsp;<em>KFC Radio<\/em>, the actor admits that he nearly jeopardized their entire future together. &#8220;I had just gotten out of a relationship\u2026 and I wasn&#8217;t looking for a relationship at the time,&#8221; the&nbsp;<em>BH90210<\/em> star shares.<\/p>\n<p>But fate has a funny way of pushing people together. While working on an episode of&nbsp;<em>Hope and Faith<\/em><strong>&nbsp;<\/strong>in New York city, alongside&nbsp;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/kelly_ripa\">Kelly Ripa<\/a><\/strong>and&nbsp;<strong>Faith Ford<\/strong>, he met the fresh-faced actress. There seemed to be an instant attraction since the actor&#8217;s first thoughts were, &#8220;This isn&#8217;t this. This can&#8217;t f&#8211;king happen. This isn&#8217;t going to happen, no way.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Fortunately, the&nbsp;<em>Transformers&nbsp;<\/em>star wasn&#8217;t going to let him get away that easily. He says that she was &#8220;really persistent&#8221; in those beginning days.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"text-2\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"65.5\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-text-only\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"21\">\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s funny, I kept pushing her away early on, because I was like, &#8216;I don&#8217;t want a relationship.'&#8221; The father-of-four explains, &#8220;And then she was like,&nbsp;&#8216;Well cool, I&#8217;m going to go date.'&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>And just like that, Austin realized&nbsp;that his feelings for Megan ran deeper than he originally thought. &#8220;I was like, &#8216;Wait a second, I didn&#8217;t say go date, please!&#8217; So then that&#8217;s when I realized I was, like, \u2018F&#8211;k, I must be really into this situation, [because] the thought of that kills me.'&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"photo-txt-3\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"38.463414634146\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-photo-text\" readability=\"21.317073170732\">\n<p>Fifteen years have passed since Brian came to his senses, but not much has changed for the pair. Except for the fact that she soon became a mega star thanks to&nbsp;<em>Transformers<\/em>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We had so much anonymity going around. She lived here and we would walk around on weekend. It was really easy and fun at that point,&#8221; Brian says. Nowadays, these two cannot go anywhere without a string of photographers trailing them.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The attention on the pair was at its peak in 2015,&nbsp;when <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/688696\/megan-fox-files-for-divorce-from-brian-austin-green\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Fox filed for divorce<\/a>&nbsp;from Green. At the time, the actress cited &#8220;irreconcilable differences&#8221; as the cause for their split, but it soon became apparent that those differences were very much reconcilable, because Megan was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/755943\/is-megan-fox-pregnant-with-baby-no-3-actress-appears-to-show-baby-bump-during-cinemacon-red-carpet\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pregnant with their third son<\/a> just a year later.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Megan has since filed to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1036212\/megan-fox-files-to-dismiss-divorce-from-brian-austin-green-years-after-getting-back-together\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">dismiss the divorce<\/a> and a source previously told E! News, &#8220;Brian and Megan been working on themselves as individuals and things have gotten better between them as a couple.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"tune-in-4\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"33\">\n<p class=\"tune-in__text\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\">Don&#8217;t miss <em>E! News<\/em> every weeknight at 7, only on E!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1065403\/um-brian-austin-green-initially-rejected-a-really-persistent-megan-fox?cmpid=rss-000000-rssfeed-365-topstories&#038;utm_source=eonline&#038;utm_medium=rssfeeds&#038;utm_campaign=rss_topstories\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: E! Online<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BACKGRID It&#8217;s safe to say that&nbsp;Brian Austin Green and&nbsp;Megan Fox got off to a rocky start.&nbsp; In fact, they almost didn&#8217;t date at all. On Barstool Radio&#8217;s&nbsp;KFC Radio, the actor admits that he nearly jeopardized their entire future together. &#8220;I had just gotten out of a relationship\u2026 and I wasn&#8217;t looking for a relationship at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-29006","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-29 12:12:58","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KIFT - The LIFT FM","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29006","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29006"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29006\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}