Minnie Driver on Unconventional Home Life with Fiancé

Minnie Driver has lifted the lid on her unconventional arrangement with her fiancé Addison O'Dea, revealing they don't .

The Emily in Paris star, 56, made the candid confession this week, crediting the American filmmaker, 46, with teaching her to 'embrace' their unorthodox setup which sees them 'constantly in different places'.

'I found my guy, my love, Addison. He's Gemini and as unconventional and as embracing of the lack of need for a status quo... we define what that is,' Minnie explained on The Spirit Daughter podcast on Wednesday.

'That has been so freeing to be with someone for whom the weird idiosyncrasies were not a problem at all, but rather to be embraced and supported.'

Speaking about long-distance relationships, the British-American actress shared: 'That's exactly how we live. Genuinely, that is how it is - we are constantly in different places and he has coached me and how it is okay. I love that.

'I think because other people's reaction to it was always: this is a huge problem that you want things to be this way, or that this is the way your life naturally unfolds - the resistance to that, I always thought was wrong.

The actress, who dated Matt Damon during the filming of Good Will Hunting for a year until 1998, and was briefly engaged to Josh Brolin in 2001, continued: 'I was worried and panicked that that would be problematic and it was for lots of people. 

'For Addison, he just sees it as how things work most fluidly - and most fluidly for everybody. There's an ease within that. So it's amazing.

'He really has taught me to embrace that my natural feeling for things to be completely and utterly unconventional and people sleeping in different rooms, in different houses in different places, and there being no punishment or sadness around any of that, but just an embracing of the is-ness of it all.'

Minnie revealed last year that she because her son Henry, 17, whom she shares with TV writer Timothy J Lea, 'begged' her to move so he could attend school with his cousins and have a 'normal life' after struggling with Zoom school during the pandemic. 

The actress admitted she found the first two years 'really difficult' but now loves being back in the UK, where Henry attends the same boarding school she once did.

Fellow Hollywood star Gwyneth Paltrow had a similar arrangement with husband, TV producer Brad Falchuk, who initially - though the couple have since admitted they regretted the decision and believed it made their children 'uncomfortable'.

Minnie - who plays glamorous socialite Princess Jane in Netflix's Emily in Paris alongside Lily Collins's titular lead role - added that being a single mother for so long meant she created her own routines that worked for her family without the pressure of conforming to traditional expectations.

'When you're a single mum, which I was until really, all Henry's life until Addison, you don't have any one,' she explained. 'You just create it how it best flows for everybody. 

'The amazing nanny that I had - because I was working full-time - how she moved into that so beautifully and we just created this dance that everyone was happy with. It was never difficult, ever.'

The actress also praised Addison for being the only partner who can handle her emotional depth without it becoming 'a completely draining awful experience' for them.

'Addison is honestly the only partner I've ever had who's been able to do that,' she revealed. 'And it not be a completely draining awful experience for them, but something that he finds very easy to do and he's very good at. He's a brilliant teacher.'

She attributed her emotional accessibility to her astrological makeup, saying: 'It's the Aquarium brain with the Scorpio moon going, oh, I got you. So it's useful as an actor, but tricky in life. Really tricky as a human.'

Minnie and Addison have been together since early 2019 and .

They met years before beginning their romance, with their relationship deepening after Addison helped Minnie during the 2018 Malibu wildfires, launching what she called a 'sea-based incursion' to deliver supplies to her neighbours.

In January, Minnie told Grazia magazine she was 'so glad' Addison came into her life, though she insisted she would have been 'fine' if he hadn't shown up.