While Sharna Burgess and Brian Austin Green are excited about their ever-expanding family, the journey has had its ups and downs. On a September 2023 episode of their podcast, “Oldish,” Burgess claimed that Vanessa Marcil — mother to Green’s eldest son, Kassius Green — deliberately kept Kassius from his father when Brian was afflicted with continuous vertigo. “Those years that he wasn’t able to go see Kassius, Vanessa made no effort to make sure Brian got time with him,” Burgess lamented, adding that this fed the narrative Marcil reportedly spun about Green. “She painted him as an absent father who chose not to be around for him. And I’m sure that information was fed to Kass,” the dancer noted, calling the experience “damaging” for Kassius.
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Answering an Instagram inquiry in February of that year, Marcil bluntly stated that she and Green “didn’t and don’t co-parent. I raised my son alone ” (via the Daily Mail). The “Las Vegas” alum first publicly addressed her custody drama in a November 2018 Instagram post, slamming Green and Kassius’ then-stepmom, Megan Fox. As Marcil claimed at the time, Green and Fox “always had and still have 50% custody” of Kassius and were the ones to consciously boot him from their lives “5 years ago.” Marcil also claimed that Kassius had never even met Fox’s youngest son with Green and was not “allowed to know where his bio father, stepmother, and three younger brothers live.” What a mess!
