Brooke Shields and Liam Neeson's Relationship Timeline: A Look Back

Whatever Brooke Shields and Liam Neeson's relationship lacked in duration, it made up for in drama. It wasn't long after the Oscar-nominated actor and the model-turned-actress began dating that they were engaged. Sure, there might not have been any ring involved, and the action star may have gone AWOL shortly after, but between Neeson's glasses and Shields's hair … the spirit of the early '90s was alive and incredibly well within these two.

Though Neeson and The Blue Lagoon star's relationship didn't sound particularly healthy, we have no choice but to stan a famous actor who courts his dates with bad wine. 

"He wooed me with his brogue, his poetry, and his shitty choice of cheap pinot grigio wine," the Calvin Klein muse wrote in her 2014 memoir, There Was a Little Girl: The Real Story of My Mother and Me. Nevertheless, by the end of 1992, before any marriage had the chance of transpiring, the pair had gone their separate ways.

Here's a look back at Brooke Shields and Liam Neeson's relationship.

1990: Brooke Shields and Liam Neeson first meet

It's unclear exactly how they met, but Hollywood is small. Neeson had already earned quite the reputation for dating the industry's best and brightest (think: Helen Mirren, Julia Roberts, Barbra Streisand, and Sinead O'Connor).

1991-1992: Brooke Shields and Liam Neeson are first spotted together

They began dating in late 1991 or early 1992. Shields wrote of this period in her memoir, describing Neeson as "a tall Irish actor and a drunk who was 13 years" her senior.

1992: Liam Neeson ghosts Brooke Shields after proposing

Shields wrote that she was "so impressed with going out with a real movie star," but that seems to be one of the few positives from their time together. The Suddenly Susan actress said Neeson "hungered after any female attention," and after he proposed to her (without a ring), he ghosted.

Following a Christmas in which they were "buzzed all day long," Neeson left for Los Angeles after his basement had allegedly flooded. 

"I told him to phone me when he arrived," Shields wrote, to which Neeson said, "Oh, it'll be late, darlin." 

After he left, Shields claimed she "never heard from him again.

Shields told The Times in 2014, "He was there one minute and gone the next. You know, I was shocked, I couldn't believe it. Yeah. He was taken," referencing Neeson's famous action franchise.

1992: Liam Neeson proposes to Brooke Shields again before they break up

Despite her previous statement, the actress did, in fact, see her ex again. After the release of her memoir, Shields told People in 2014 that Neeson proposed a second time. 

"He came back after the first time he left me and asked me to marry him again," she said.

She added, "This was before he started to do a play [Anna Christie]. And I said, 'No, no, no, because knowing you, you'll probably fall in love with your next leading lady and marry her, so I'm leaving myself out of this.' And I was dead right."

Anna Christie's Broadway revival opened in early 1993, and Neeson wed his co-star, the late Natasha Richardson, the following year. They remained together until her death in 2009.

Still, Shields insisted there was no bad blood between her and the Schindler's List star.

When Shields played Sally Bowles in Cabaret in 2001 (a role Richardson portrayed in the 1998 revival), she said the British actress visited her backstage. Shields ran into Neeson years later and asked him to thank his wife for her support.

"Just tell her I was really honored she came backstage," she told him, per People. "She's the original, and she's amazing."

Neeson reportedly owned up to his treatment of Shields as well.

According to AOL, Neeson corroborated Shields's account on Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen in 2015 — well, sort of. 

"I'm not going to deny it. I actually don't really remember. It was many years ago, but … I flew off to L.A., and I didn't call her back. It sounds ... yeah, I guess it was," Neeson said. 

Though he admitted they haven't kept in touch, Neeson called Shields "a great lady and a fantastic girl."

The couple reached their true pinnacle decades after their split when Shields appeared on WWHL in 2014. During the "Plead the Fifth" segment, host Cohen asked Shields if she could confirm the rumors that Neeson is "famously well-endowed." 

The actress replied, "True," to which Cohen asked, "It's massive?" Shields, who jokingly said that her husband was going to kill her, responded, "It's ample."