Leighton Meester might have heard that Adam Brody was trouble, but ultimately she couldn’t resist. 

Over 10 years after The Gossip Girl star and The O.C. alum tied the knot in 2014 following a whirlwind romance, she admitted that they could’ve gotten married even sooner, if not for her own reservations. 

“A lot of the time there’s false starts,” Leighton explained to her Gossip Girl costar Penn Badgley on his Podcrushed podcast Feb. 18. “Like, ‘Oh I thought he liked my roommate.’ And it turns out that was my husband the whole time. But I think I just had to see about a couple of other people first. Now, I go like, ‘Why did I do that?’ That was the wrong move, obviously. But was it?”

Indeed, while Leighton agreed with Penn that timing is everything, she still felt she could’ve saved herself a lot of it if she had just gone with her gut. 

“He is the right person,” she continued. “I would argue he’s the right person for a lot of people. He’s just a really good person.”