Minnie Driver Says Marrying Josh Brolin Would Have Been ‘The Biggest Mistake of My Life’

Minnie Driver remembers what could have been – and she’s glad she chose a different path.

The “Good Will Hunting” actress said she knew her relationship with ex-fiancé Josh Brolin was doomed.

Driver, 54, met the Marvel actor, 56, on the set of the 2000 film “Slow Burn.”

The duo quickly fell out of favor, and Brolin promptly popped the crucial question the following year.

But less than six months after their engagement, the couple called off their wedding and separated in October 2001.

“Minnie Driver and Josh Brolin have decided to cancel their wedding plans. Their decision is mutual and amicable,” a rep for the actress said at the time, adding that the couple had never set a date.

Looking back, never having walked down the aisle is something she’s glad she didn’t do.

“The one time I got engaged, it would have been, I think, the biggest mistake of my life,” she told the Sunday Times in a new interview, adding that her exes were “not the right men to marry”.

The exes have since moved on, with Brolin marrying Kathryn Boyd in 2016.

Driver, for his part, found love with writer and director Addison O’Dea in 2019.

“But now I’m with someone who doesn’t want to get married but is the most devoted, loving, amazing… everything I could have wanted in my idea of ​​a husband’s child, he actually is,” she told the outlet of her current beau.

Elsewhere in the interview, Driver said his parents never married due to his father’s infidelities, which impacted his own romantic relationships.

“If I look at my history, it made me want to get married and choose men who weren’t really the right men to marry,” she explained.

“So I kept wanting to get married and have this conservative version (of a relationship), and I found men who weren’t interested in that, and if one of them was interested in that, I ran away.”

Before his failed relationship with Brolin, Driver was romantically involved with Matt Damon.

Earlier this year, Driver revealed what she would tell her 25-year-old self when her ex Matt Damon won an Oscar in 1998, shortly after their breakup.

“I wish I could have said to her, ‘Honey, it’s cool, you can party, life is going to be beautiful and challenging and amazing, and you’re going to love again. Everything’s going to be okay,'” the actress said on “The Jennifer Hudson Show.”

Driver made headlines three months ago when she admitted she was “devastated” to see Ben Affleck and Damon — who had already moved on and was dating Winona Ryder — win the Oscar for best original screenplay for their joint film, “Good Will Hunting.”

“I want to wrap my arms around this young lady and give her a hug and say, ‘Everything’s going to be okay, honey, don’t worry,'” Driver told Hudson.

The “Circle of Friends” actress explained that she and Damon “recently broke up” and was still “totally heartbroken” and “terrified” going into the annual awards show.