Kelly Brook reveals reason for split from ex-fiancé Jason Statham as she admits she ‘fell out of love with him’ after the Hollywood star failed to ‘show up for me like I’d showed up for him’

Kelly Brook has revealed why her seven-year relationship with actor Jason Statham ended, admitting she “lost love” after being “neglected” as her Hollywood career began to take off.

The 45-year-old former model, who is preparing to participate in the I’m A Celebrity contest Get Me Out Of Here! Jungle Sunday began dating the 58-year-old movie star in 1997, and the pair even got engaged before their split in 2004.

Appearing on the latest episode of How to Fail with Elizabeth Day, Kelly detailed how the romance fell apart and revealed that she ended things when he didn’t show up for her, just like he did for her.

Describing how he changed as he got older, he admitted that he was previously a “people pleaser” and did not put himself first, but that he had learned to be more “selfish”.

He said: ‘In the past I was a people pleaser, I wanted to be friends with everyone, I wanted to be around everyone and I didn’t put myself first.

‘Unfortunately it hasn’t served me well, as I’ve gotten older I’ve become more of a selfish bitch and I don’t really care anymore.’

The 45-year-old former model started dating the 58-year-old movie star in 1997, and the pair even got engaged before their split in 2004 (seen in 2004).

Kelly is set to appear on I’m a Celebrity Get Me Out of Here! Forest on Sunday (pictured)

Elizabeth later asked how her ‘people-pleasing’ nature played a role in her love life before she met her now-husband Jeremy Parisi in 2014.

Kelly admitted that during her seven-year relationship with Jason, she put her own career on hold to help Jason succeed.

He said: ‘I think there were definitely elements of codependency in my first relationship. There were elements where I put my career and life on hold.

‘I had a really good job at MTV. I remember doing a daily show there, it was right after I got fired from The Big Breakfast and I saw a really great show there and I was there for about a year and my boyfriend at the time was an actor.

‘I remember he was offered a few roles in things, like a bouncer on the door doing something in EastEnders, and he had so much talent and charisma and I said, “You know what? We need to go to America. I just think if we go it will make us.”‘

He explained that after moving to Los Angeles, Jason began to find success on the big screen and eventually became one of Hollywood’s biggest action stars, becoming Jason’s ‘support network’.

However, he admitted that while hers was taking off, his own career was ‘sitting idle’ and he felt ‘neglected’ when she couldn’t give him the same support he gave hers.

She recalled: ‘But I had a really good job and we had no money and I quit my job and we went and I was there as a support network for him and watched his career develop, whereas mine floundered a bit because I didn’t have the same opportunities.

Kelly admitted that during her seven-year relationship with Jason, she put her own career on hold to help him succeed (seen in 2000)

However, he admitted that he too had been left ‘idle’ while her career was taking off, and admitted that he felt ‘neglected’ when he couldn’t give her the same support he had given her.

‘I was traveling back and forth between the UK and Los Angeles and it was quite cumbersome, expensive and tiring.

‘His career took off and it became the most incredible thing because I did so much and I didn’t take care of myself, I felt so neglected in that dynamic and eventually I fell out of love with him because he didn’t come to me the way I came to him, I didn’t feel.’

She said she made the call to end the relationship because she felt Jason ‘didn’t know who I was anymore’ and although it was difficult, it was ‘the best decision’.

Kelly said: “So we left and I think he turned to me and said: “Why are you leaving now? Look, I’m a movie star and a millionaire, why now?”

“And I said: ‘You weren’t there, you weren’t there for me, and I need to be a woman. In the process, I became a woman and I don’t think you know who I am anymore. “You know the girl who left MTV and came with you, but you don’t know the woman.”

‘So it was a really tough time but I think it was the first time I actually did something for myself and it was the best decision.’

After mentioning the identity of the ex-boyfriend in question, Kelly confirmed to Elizabeth that he was Jason.

Jason went on to find love with Victoria’s Secret model Rosie Huntington-Whiteley in 2010; The duo is currently engaged and parents have three children, Jack (8) and Isabella (3).

Jason went on to find love with Victoria’s Secret model Rosie Huntington-Whiteley (seen in September) in 2010; The duo is currently engaged and their parents are Jack, 8, and Isabella, 3, with their children.

Kelly didn’t shy away from voicing her anger and criticism when talking about her failed romance with the movie star.

In 2019, she complained about her ex, who is now a ‘multimillionaire action hero’, being brought up by co-host Ashley Roberts on the Heart FM Breakfast Show and describing her as ‘weak’ when she was with him.

Reading the day’s showbiz news, Ashley announced: ‘Hobbs and Shaw launches today and Jason Statham is a multi-millionaire action hero with a supermodel fiancée and the star of one of the biggest film franchises in the world…’

Kelly intervened to implore the showbiz pundit to stop talking, saying: ‘Ugh! Can we stop? These are all things you don’t want to hear about your ex-boyfriend.’

After sulkily listing the Hollywood actor’s characteristics, he also pretended to shoot himself in the head.

Surprised, Ashley then asked: ‘Wait, catch up with me, are you out with him?’ To which Kelly replied: ‘Let’s not go there Ashley, she was so skinny when I was there. Trust me.’

Meanwhile, in 2014, she referred to Jason as a ‘pig’ and claimed that during a brief split from Rosie, she reached out to Jason and told him she loved him.

Kelly, who has been harshly critical of her previous partners, including actor Billy Zane and former rugby star Danny Cipriani, said her exes had one thing in common: ‘They were all crazy when I met them.’

In 2019, she complained about her ex, who is now a ‘multimillionaire action hero’, being brought up by co-host Ashley Roberts on the Heart FM Breakfast Show and describing her as ‘weak’ when she was with him.

He told Weekend Magazine: ‘They didn’t have a career, or were at the end of one and trying to start something else. I met them all at a not-so-good time, and it’s my fault for raising them, for being like Mary Poppins.

‘They were all either in debt, unemployed, or wondering what to do. Jason was at the end of his diving career when I met him. He wanted to be an actor.”

When Kelly tried to talk to Jason about getting married or having a baby, he said he didn’t want to get married, and admitted that was partly why she fell into a romance with Billy after they met on the set of Survival Island in 2004.

She said: ‘Jason was my first love. Billy was never going to be someone I wanted to spend my life with. It was a cop-out. I knew your relationship with Billy would make or break us, and it broke us. To this day, Jason says: “It was my ego. I couldn’t get my head around it.”

He then continued: ‘I know you were not happy in your later years. Neither of us were.

‘Some of us will always love each other, and there were times… like last year, when the Danny thing was over, Jason called out of the blue and said, ‘I still love you,’ and I said, ‘I still love you.’ We will always continue to love each other.

‘Then the next day I read that he had broken up with Rosie, so it was obvious why he called. ‘I don’t want to be a crutch to someone and I thought this was a real phone call.’

Kelly raged: ‘Men are complete pigs. He and Rosie got back together and I haven’t heard from him since.’