Jason Patric and Kiefer Sutherland discuss reconciling after Julia Roberts love triangle from 1991

For the first time, Kiefer Sutherland and his BFF Jason Patric publicly addressed their 1991 love triangle with Julia Roberts and revealed how they eventually reconciled.

The Lost Boys heartthrobs – both 54 – reflected on when the 53-year-old Oscar winner infamously flew to Ireland with Jason on the same day she was scheduled to marry Kiefer.

‘That was a difficult time for me, and I think it was an uncomfortable time for both of them,’ Sutherland confessed on Tuesday’s episode of podcast Inside of You with Michael Rosenbaum.  

‘But the truth where I’m coming from: you fall in love, you fall in love. There’s nothing you can do about that. [Julia’s] an extraordinary person, and he is too. Timing is what it is, and everybody moves on from that.’

The two-time Emmy winner likened it to British rockers George Harrison and Eric Clapton remaining ‘best friends until the bitter end’ despite both being involved with model Pattie Boyd.

‘And it wasn’t that by the way,’ Kiefer noted. ‘I figure if they can deal with what they dealt with, we certainly can.’

Sutherland embarked on a three-year marriage to Kelly Winn before getting engaged to Run Hide Fight actress and saxophonist Cindy Vela in 2017.   

On July 4, Roberts – who was married country crooner Lyle Lovett for 21 months – celebrated her 18th wedding anniversary to cinematographer Daniel Moder, with whom she has three children.

Patric never wed but he fought for parental rights for his son from an on/off decade relationship with Danielle Schreiber, which bitterly ended in 2012.

In 2011, The Vanished star and The Fugitive star reunited for a Broadway revival of Jason’s late father Jason Miller’s Pulitzer Prize and Tony-winning play That Championship Season at the Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre.  

‘When I saw him again…there were a few words and more of a laugh and a toast,’ Jason smiled.

‘I’ve said before that [he and Julia] have both been subsequently married since a couple times and I think they’re both very happy in their lives. What lasted after all that is me and Kiefer as 35-year buddies.’

Both men were born into acting thanks to Sutherland’s famous father Donald Sutherland and Patric’s famous grandfather Jackie Gleason.