Brian Austin Green breaks silence on secret ’90s romance with Tichina Arnold

Brian Austin Green spoke for the first time about his secret ’90s romance with “Martin” star Tichina Arnold.

The “Beverly Hills, 90210” alum, 52, told “Funny Knowing You” podcast listeners Wednesday that he and the actress, 56, met “working together” and “got along really well.”

He explained, “Hip-hop was my world. I was doing hip-hop clubs. I was going to all the places where hip-hop was existing. … You usually date the people that you’re around. So, of course, I was dating majority Black women at the time because we had common interests.”

Green, however, became “insecure” when Arnold was “very clear on day one” that no one “could know” they were “fooling around.”

He recalled, “I was in my early 20s. I was living in a culture that wasn’t accepting of me. But there was no way to get out of it because that was just where my brain and my heart were.

“I have someone who I’m attracted to who’s telling me, like, ‘You can’t tell anybody,’” the actor continued. “I think, for me, it really triggered something like, ‘Oh, OK. I’m not good enough for any of this. You don’t even want your friends to know that you’re hanging out with me.’”

Although Arnold later “flipped” and “was cool” with going public, Green had already made a “subconscious switch” to not consider them in a “real relationship.”

As for where the duo stand now, Green said, “That’s my girl. I will always have her back. She has always had my back.”

He broke his silence on the throwback connection one month after Arnold appeared on the same podcast and revealed her “great experience” with Green.

She told host Deon Cole in the December 2025 episode that while the “BH90210” star was a “really nice guy,” she was the one to call it quits.

“I said, ‘The reason why we’ve come to the end of our road is because I see you dating all these Black women. Now you’re dating me, and you’re not going to end up with a Black woman. You’re going to share your riches and your legacy with someone white. And so I’m getting off this train,’” Arnold claimed.

She quipped that she’s “very good with endings.”

The “Everybody Hates Chris” alum noted that she “knew [the relationship] wasn’t going” anywhere from the start.

She added, “I’m just attracted to Black men, like, that’s my natural. It comes down to everything, just the pheromones, the smell and everything.”

Green went on to welcome children with ex-girlfriend Vanessa Marcil, ex-wife Megan Fox and fiancée Sharna Burgess, whom he proposed to in June 2023.

Arnold, for her part, was married to Lamon Brewster from 1991 to 1995, as well as DaRico Hines from 2012 to 2016.