A few months after their marriage, Brolin was arrested on domestic abuse charges. An L.A. police officer told the New York Daily News (via People) that Lane accused Brolin of hitting her. A spokeswoman for the couple called the altercation a "misunderstanding" and that Brolin was charged "for the lowest-end misdemeanour charge of domestic battery" and that Lane "did not want to press charges and asked them not to arrest him."
The spokeswoman went on to explain that the couple were "embarrassed the matter went [that] far." Lane and Brolin went on to spend just shy of a decade together before getting divorced in 2013 in what was described as an "amicable split" (via Digital Spy).
Since then, Brolin has reflected on the incident. In a 2018 interview with The New York Times (via HuffPost), Brolin said there was "no explaining" it. "I've gotten to a place where all that matters is that I have control over my behavior, and at that time, it was a little more chaotic."
He has also said that he wasn't mature enough to handle their relationship at the time. He added (via Entertainment Tonight), "It just wasn't attainable, and in that hero mentality, you get exhausted, and then when you get exhausted, you get resentful ... . I feel bad that I didn't have the presence of mind or the maturity or whatever to understand that early on."
