Brian Austin Green poses at the 2023 iHeartRadio Music Awards.Photo:Steve Granitz/FilmMagic
Steve Granitz/FilmMagic
Brian Austin Greenis getting candid about fatherhood.
While appearing on thelatest episodeof theFrosted Tips with Lance Basspodcast, theBeverly Hills, 90210star, 50, opened up about raising his eldest sonKassius Lijah Marcil-Green, who is openly gay.
“I would get into these conservations with Kash where it was like I really wanted to understand the things that seemed so different to me at first,” said Green. “And then you realize, ‘Oh, this isn’t different at all.’ It’s just your choice of partner. It doesn’t affect me at all.”
“And that’s the thing I’m always trying to beat into people now — it does not affect you,” he continued. “Why do you care so much? And why are you trying to somehow bully your feelings and your opinion into something that literally does not affect you at all?”
Bass, 44, praised the actor for being “open-minded,” adding that Kassius, 21, was lucky to have him as a parent.
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Brian Austin Green and his eldest kids.Brian Austin Green Instagram
“He was so lucky to be able to be in your family because so many kids out there don’t get that,” explained Bass. “And even if their parents accept them, there’s a lot of times when the kid still knows that they still disagree with it.”
Green added that the experience was one that was “fascinating” due to it being “unknown” territory.
“I think a lot of people are afraid of the unknown, whereas I’m not. To me, it’s intriguing. And I want to learn about it,” he said.
In addition to sharing Kassius with ex-girlfriendVanessa Marcil, Green isalso fathertoNoah Shannon, 11,Bodhi Ransom, 9, andJourney River, 7, with exMegan Fox. He welcomed his fifth child,Zane Walker, with hisnow-fiancée,Sharna Burgess, in June 2022.
Burgess, 38, opened up about parenting with Green in anInstagram tributewritten in honor of hisbirthday in July.
Sharna Burgess (L), Brian Austin Green (R).David Becker/Getty Images for iHeartRadio
David Becker/Getty Images for iHeartRadio
“You are the kind of father I could’ve only dreamed of (and I did) for my children. You are the kind of partner to me that I thought only existed in my journalwritings,” she wrote. “Life without you was pretty wonderful but life WITH you? It’s a dream.”
“I just didn’t know how wonderful it could be before you and my happily ever after exists wherever you and the kids are,” she added.
source: people.com
