Minnie Driver is trying again on her courting historical past with no regrets.
The “Good Will Hunting” actor opened as much as the Sunday Occasions about her relationships through the years — and singled out one particular person she appears grateful she didn’t find yourself with.
Driver stated that her father’s infidelity made her “want to be married so much, and then choose men who were so not the right men to be married to.”
“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,” she stated.
“The one time I was engaged [to fellow actor Josh Brolin in 2001] it would have been, I think, the biggest mistake of my life,” Driver added.
Brolin, who’s presently married to Kathryn Boyd, was beforehand married to actor Alice Adair (from 1988 to 1994) and Diane Lane (from 2004 to 2013).
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Driver has since discovered love with another person ― author and director Addison O’Dea ― whom she’s been with for 5 years.
“I’m with someone who doesn’t want to get married, but who is the most devoted, loving, extraordinary,” she stated. “Everything I could have wanted in my childhood idea of a husband, he actually is.”
Driver has had quite a lot of high-profile relationships through the years, together with with actors Harrison Ford and Matt Damon.
Throughout a cease by the “Today” present final month, Driver stated that if she may have given her youthful self any courting recommendation, there’s one factor she would’ve modified.
“Don’t date actors,” she stated.
She added that she would inform herself, ”‘Honey, find a nice plumber. Find an electrician. Find someone who just wants to stay home and support you.’”
