Enquirer: Jennifer Aniston “collapsed” when she heard about Brad’s engagement

First and foremost, I am not cosigning this National Enquirer story. As I’ve already said in two of my previous post-Brangelina-engagement stories, I do think Jennifer Aniston is in a good place right now, I think she’s happy with Justin Theroux, and I really don’t think that she’s actively looking to throw herself a giant pity party over her ex-husband’s engagement. That being said, I did enjoy this Enquirer story for it’s sheer melodrama, and for making Aniston sound like an image-obsessed PR genius. According to the Enquirer, Brad Pitt called Aniston to let her know about the engagement a week before he announced it. And after Jennifer “collapsed” in a fit of tears, she picked herself up and arranged for several planted items about how “happy” she is with Justin. Genius!

Jennifer Aniston collapsed when Brad Pitt called her to break the news that he’s marrying Angelina Jolie, sources say. Despite her broken heart, Jen quickly shifted into damage control and publicly boasted about her own happy love life, according to insiders.

“Brad called Jen the first week of April to tip her off about the engagement,” revealed a source close to Aniston. “Brad said, ‘I wanted you to hear it first from me. I asked Angelina to marry me and she said yes.’”

“The news hit Jennifer like a ton of bricks. Jen never actually believed that Brad would actually marry Angie. Even though she was in a state of shock, she didn’t want to let Brad know how heartbroken she was. But as soon as they got off the phone, Jen burst into tears and collapsed! She just sank to the ground in a heap.”

After her phone conversation with Brad, Jennifer was sobbing and pouring over mementos of their life together when her current beau, edgy actor screenwriter Justin Theroux, found her, added the source.

“Rather than being supportive, Justin blew up at Jen for continuing to obsess over Brad,” the source said. “It was awful. Jen needed comforting, but Justin was too hurt and angry. He accused Jen of still being in love with Brad, and they wound up having a huge fight.”

But Jen bounced back. In a true masterstroke, she made a glowing reference to Justin in a magazine interview that hit newsstands shortly before Brad’s engagement was announced. “Jen obviously knew the engagement announcement was coming… it was no coincidence that her own story was leaked right beforehand.”

Then, after Brad and Angie made their announcement official, Jen had her PR team put out word that she was “happy” for the couple – even though she has called Angelina “really uncool” over her hookup with Brad. Added the first source: “Jen’s public face is very different to her private one over Angie. She’s never stopped seething over the way she lost Brad to her.”

[From The Enquirer, print edition]

I think the whole “Jennifer planted the ‘Justin is a protector’ story as a way to combat the engagement story” thing is dumb – there’s no way Marie Claire Australia would have had such a short lead time. Aniston said that “protector” stuff long before she knew about the engagement. Plus, that’s just the way she talks. She wasn’t angling – that’s how she is. Now, she totally had her publicist plant the E! and the People Magazine stories this week, though. As she should – why would she comment directly when she can get “unnamed sources” to do the heavy lifting?

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  1. WillyNilly says:

    WILL IT NEVER END?!

    I don’t know why I bothered to ask. Highly unlikely. Who are the people that actually believe this crap? Is it comparable to a daytime soap? Is that the fascination?

    • Dinah says:

      ^^This 100%. I am so sick of seeing these stories. Ugh.

    • lisa says:

      There is a group of people that believe every word of this. Watch the comments. They believe all the tabs stories about BP/AJ so yep they must buy this too. And I say that because they are on other treads quoting those stories as truth. the tabs have an audience. A DUMB AUDIENCE, BUT AN AUDIENCE ALL THE SAME.

    • Erinn says:

      Just wait until one of them (hopefully in the distant future) dies. It’s all the news will be showing for months.

    • MW says:

      For me, it’s like “The Little Boy Who Cried Wolf”. Even if I “believe” some story is made-up BS, I still want to check to see if “this time” it might actually have some merit. The tabs know this, and keep making up stories and that sells magazines. As for the people who believe anything they read, it’s mind-boggling. I think some people truly believe that if it’s in print, it’s gospel, cuz “they” wouldn’t print a lie!

      • cupidityrox says:

        The National Enquirer is a joke. I believe nothing i read there. Whoever wrote that article must have a background in writing scripts for budget soap operas.

    • Freya says:

      As if the NE was there with her. They make her look silly, as if she expects Brad Pitt to stay single.

  2. mln76 says:

    OH PUL-EEZE Pure Fan Fiction

    (I do think he called before the news broke because he did the same for Goop).

  3. Beatrix says:

    quotes like “he’s a protector, for sure” as so base in their idiocy, it is ridiculous how much circulation they get.

  4. Aria says:

    I really feel sorry for Jennifer beacuse she will be haunted by this two for the rest of ther life or at least the stories made about them.

    Jennifer probably gives a damn about this whole show-engagement.

    I used to like Angelina but she’s all PR lately. Those photos showing her ring. Her botoxed smile. Too bad.

    Just for the record, I don’t team Angie or Jennifer or Brad. I can’t stand any of them.

    • Rhea says:

      To be fair, I feel sorry for the THREE of them because they all got tangled with each other whenever a story come up.Pitty for JA as well for AJ&BP.

      • guest says:

        I don’t feel sorry for JA. She promotes the Triangle every chance she gets. Didn’t she just recently say that “the so-call triangle” was the biggest misconception about her? Really the biggest misconception about you?

        Vogue UK editor just called her shenanigans out.

        Vogue’s editor Alexandra Shulman has revealed that she refuses to put Aniston on the cover because of the actress’s stringent demands over copy approval.

        In an interview with the Observer Magazine, Shulman said: “Somebody like Jennifer Aniston will only do an interview with copy approval and picture approval. I’ve never had anybody on the cover, ever, who’s had copy approval and picture approval. I just don’t think it’s a proper thing if you do.”

    • Lithe says:

      She’s been about PR for a long time—but it used to be less obvious.

      • Carolyn says:

        JA has only ever been about PR. She’s really made a silk purse out of a sow’s ear.

    • Nymeria says:

      You mean you don’t team *any* of them? Does this mean you had the chance to team one, or two, or all three of them, but you declined, and have persisted in your refusal to team them?

      I’d team them. Hell, if I had someone to team them with me, I’d *double* team them.

  5. Roma says:

    So why does the Enquirer run with a story like this?

    Because society totally accepts and believes the idea that even though they have been split for 7 years, even though he has had multiple children with another woman, even though she’s happy with someone else – as a woman, she will never get over her loss or be able to let go.

    And I fell like the worst perpetrators of this nonsense is other women.

    • Eve says:

      I agree with you, but you know what (ultimately) doesn’t help her? Quotes like this:

      I still have the cassette tapes of messages from my first boyfriend, my second boyfriend, my husband… it’s like saving love letters.

      http://www.celebitchy.com/34826/jennifer_aniston_saves_answering_machine_tapes_of_her_exes_fears_the_internet/

      • Lithe says:

        What does it matter? Some people collect weird things. At least it’s not a jar of her exes’ fingernail clippings, or little vials of their blood.

      • guest says:

        I always thought that was weird to admit that you’ve held on to your ex-husband’s messages after he left you 5 years earlier and had kids by another woman. Can you imagine Kate Bosworth saying I still keep the love letters Orlando gave me or Winona Ryder spouting off about Matt Damon and Johnny Depp. You sound desperate and that you never moved on with life, especially when the man has children and is in committed relationship.
        If the reference was to Jolie and the blood vile, she has never said she keeps mememtos of her ex-husbands.

      • Freya says:

        It wasn’t very smart to tell others about that.

      • crtb says:

        Why is that weird? I’ve kept cards, pictures and letters from old relationships. They were wonderful memories. I’ve move on with new boyfriends and they have moved on also but those people will always have a special place in my heart.

      • guest says:

        @crtb
        It’s weird when you refer to your ex-husband as your husband after being divorced for 5 years and he’s moved on with another woman and they have children. She sounded like a stalker.

      • Eve says:

        @ Lithe and Crtb:

        You’ve both missed my point completely. She can keep whatever she wants, from whoever she wants, from any of her relationships. I find that kinda creepy, but to each their own.

        The problem lies on her quotes — it’s the fact she herself makes such information available for anyone to speculate on, especially the tabloids. It’s not so difficult to make up stories about her not getting over Pitt because she has said things that tabloids can easily spin that way.

  6. lisa says:

    Dumb..

    but to be honest there really has not been that many stories about her related to them. I think if she was not in a relationship the Tabloids would have gone further. As it stands these silly stories are either sidebars or buried inside the magazine. Most people don’t care and most don’t associate her with them. In fact some didn’t know about her and Brad.. but the media and gossip sites are the ones that play this. Besides would you think a man in a relationship wants to read about his woman crying over a relationship that ended almost 8 years ago. That would make Justin look dumb. And I think Jennifer’s PR guy would put a lock on those stories as much as possible. Fine when she was single, but not now.

    and I find it funny that now they are writing the Jen and Justin on the rocks stories. I think people should look for those to be upped. The none existent Triangle stories are FAIL. mainly because there never was a triangle to begin with

    • Esmom says:

      Omg, I can’t imagine the spin if Jen was single right now. Pity parties every. single. night.

  7. backwards says:

    This is so ridiculous. Even for the Enquirer.

    • Red Granny says:

      I want to work for the Enquirer! Must be fun to sit there all day, smoke funny stuff and make BS stories up.

  8. thinkaboutit says:

    Who’s the “source” for this? Her beanie baby collection? Because I’m going to venture that if the call happened, she took it in private, reacted in private, and didn’t then run around telling the world how she reacted.

    It’s so fake it seems silly to point out how fake it is. It’s like someone describing my morning pee; unless my toilet paper has a big mouth, NO ONE on earth besides me knows what happened.

    • Ktx says:

      my thoughts exactly.

    • Jay says:

      Totally thinking the same thing. Even if there were one or two people around, the snitch wouldn’t be hard to narrow down after a couple stories like this, and that person would be gone.

      Odds are it’s totally made up but even if there is an “insider” he/she is just repeating hearsay at best. Hardly hidden camera level of accurate reporting. 🙂

  9. Zelda says:

    I heard that she turned green and grew six feet and burst out of her clothes and rampaged through the streets SMASHing cars and SMASHing trees and terrorizing the neighborhood children, and then she went to the store and ate all the HaagenDaaz in the store until there was no more HaagenDaaz in the store and then she threatened suicide on a bridge but then she didn’t do it and she just bought fifteen cats instead that she named after ex-lovers and 19th century literary heroines.

  10. lafairy says:

    will it ever stop???I think she could care less, she has moved on a long time ago…. The tabloid are trying to keep dragging this non-sens after 7 years!
    The ones who don’t want to let it go are the tabloids, the 3 people concerned have moved on years ago and are each happy with their life, I don’t believe the supposed Angelina Jolie jeaalousy as I don’t believe eaither the Jennifer Anniston bitterness and hope in order to supposedly rekindle some stupid thing!
    These are both lovely, good looking , succesful and respectable ADULT women!!! Move on tabloids!

    • Carolyn says:

      It’s JA and her agent who are keeping this going. A fate worse than not getting movie roles would be to have zero PR presence….for JA.

  11. Franny says:

    puh-lease. no way.

  12. jc126 says:

    So funny.

    I tend to doubt that they ever talk about anything, Brad and Jennifer.

  13. Miffy says:

    Surely the image of Jennifer Aniston sitting on the floor with her BRAD <3'S JEN scrapbook while sobbing Adele songs into a tub of Ben and Jerry's is one we're all well and truly sick of.

    • Lem says:

      Not I. I was really prepared to love that story. Faux reality or not. The copy was quite a letdown.
      I believe tabloids should go big or stay home. Any of us here could have written a much better ‘she collapsed story’

      • Esmom says:

        Seriously. The fact that someone is actually collecting a paycheck for this drivel is appalling.

      • Miffy says:

        Like you say ‘Go big or stay home’. I’m sick of unlucky in love Aniston pining for her ex-husband. I want a psychotic Aniston who dresses as a third world orphan to infiltrate the Jolie-Pitt camp (her Jolie-Pitt name can be Jox) to take her revenge by dissolving the family from the inside out with such gems as, ‘Pssst! ‘Mom’! Maddox says your arm veins are gross.’ Etc. Etc. See, I just wrote that shit off the top of my head. Where’s my pay cheque, National Enquirer?!

  14. skipper says:

    I don’t believe this for a second.

  15. Agnes says:

    hahahaha!

  16. Isabel says:

    Right. This is what set Jen off. I’m sure she really gives a rats ass about THIS particular aspect.
    Christ, Brangelina already have 3 biological children! Like this trumps breeding?!
    As Rihanna put it, I’m pretty sure Jen had no more f-cks to give.

  17. kristipistol says:

    Jen needs to stop talking to Brad. That is not healthy when feelings linger. I know it’s hard since they are in the tabloids so often. But everything he will say to her will either lead her on or hurt her.

  18. olivia says:

    Jennifer Aniston collapsed with laughter
    when she saw Jolie’s engagement ring

    • Rhea says:

      And then she stopped laughing when she saw no engagement ring in her own finger 😉

    • Kara Ann says:

      Believe that there was collapsing by the writers of the tabloids!!! WTF are they gonna do when they don’t have the stupid triangle to push copies?

      • Rhea says:

        Create another story, obviously. Make it a Holy Square, or Pentagon, Octagon, whatever. There’s always another celebs to make as an interesting media seller.

  19. Holden says:

    They’ve been divorced forever, why the f would she care what he does? Give me a break.

  20. Nessa says:

    This is just stupid.

  21. SirSnarksalot says:

    I’m sorry but as much as the tabloid craziness never seems to abate on this supposed love traingle, I think Jen is ultimately to blame for putting it into motion and stoking it as best she could when it suited her after her’s and Brad’s break up. She made sure to be out there in the press harping on how she was the injured party and looking for sympathy and I don’t think she realized how profitable the narrative would be for the gossip rags and how much it would stick to her. She should have taken different film roles, made a major pivot in her life and tried to get the world to move on. Instead she threw a years long pity party for her self feeding crap to the press and now she has to live with it. I hope she’s happy and really has moved on but she’s never struck me as being any more mature or evolved than a high school teenager.

    • Rhea says:

      I think Nicole Kidman showed us the best way handling a divorce

      • Roma says:

        Nicole Kidman was bound by a confidentiality agreement not to speak.

      • Josephina says:

        @ Roma

        …OK…So why couldn’t Aniston have been bound by pride, self-esteem, maturity, class. etc.?

        She ran her mouth on Oprah, to the press and in interview for years…now she wants it to stop because she now has found love. Pffft…GMAFB and SMH…

      • cameron says:

        Sandra Bullock most definitely handled her divorce with class and was the most humilated.
        I don’t believe that Brad called JA about the engagement. Her father said they don’t talk to each other. Just like I don’t believe he contacted Goop about his marriage to JA.
        BtW, her father also said she wasn’t moving to NYC permanently. Now we hear she sold her apartments.
        Her father doesn’t seem to lie.

  22. pwal says:

    I’m sorry, but when I saw this story in the grocery store, I cracked up laughing 1) because I didn’t believe it for one second and 2)if Aniston was capable of such emotion, she should use it in her acting – THAT would get me into one of her movies, not the perpetually scared $h*tless expression that has plagued her career for years.

    And I’m not feeling how the Enquirer painted Justin as a selfish cur for not ‘providing comfort’. I’m sorry, but if I was Justin and I caught her blubbering over her ex, after 7 freaking years, I wouldn’t offer comfort either. Therapy, yoga, hell-hound girlfriends haven’t helped, but his comforting her will? Nope… that would be enabling her.

  23. blah says:

    zzzzzzzz

  24. juju says:

    Bull shit !!!

  25. Mia says:

    Okay, when will the “Angie leaves Brad for Jenn! She’s back to women and sharing blood with Jenn!” stories start?

  26. Justine says:

    Normally I am not very much into all this OMG-is-she-pregnant??-talk, this is the first time I am writing this: But is Jen pregnant?? She looks a bit like that!

  27. Maritza says:

    Tabloids just want to keep the triangle love story alive for their own sake because it sells.

  28. Candyland says:

    Naw, Jen couldn’t be bothered. Her guy’s hotter.

  29. Nancy says:

    That headline LOL

  30. Me says:

    If I was her I would have been more upset about all the kids rather than an engagement. Life moves on and Im sure she has too.

  31. lucy2 says:

    Well, that didn’t take long.
    How stupid, I really hope no one believes this nonsense. Everyone has moved on and is happy – but that doesn’t sell papers, so they just make crap up.

  32. manly says:

    her mom said she is ugly.

  33. stinky says:

    Sure – this latest story is poo.
    But i can tell you, if some chick seduced my dude w/ her sex appeal, her kid, and her great life & lifestyle – while i would genuinely wave ‘bon-voyage’ to him (and ‘move on’ myself) i would NOT feel kum-bay-ya toward her any time soon. Those who’ve experienced this from the perspective of being the one who was lied to might understand and agree. Those who are willing to flirt, scheme, lie or otherwise to attract and/or obtain someone else’s partner dont see it that way at all… Theyre quick to bring up the “it-takes-two-to-tango” argument. I think thats a seriously over-simplified argument, myself. Which type of person are you? Do you flirt w/ someone even if they’re married? What about if they’re just ‘together’ w/ someone else? I do neither of those things. The A.B.J. triad is a good one for discussion, since theres both scenarios to ponder: temptress seduces a husband and a marriage fails / wounded bird finally clicks w/ someone, but he’s already involved. Onlookers get all feisty over women blaming women for everything & not holding men accountable. This story makes the WORLD go around cuz its as old as time itself (almost!)

    • mln76 says:

      Those who’ve experienced this from the perspective of being the one who was lied to might understand and agree. Those who are willing to flirt, scheme, lie or otherwise to attract and/or obtain someone else’s partner dont see it that way at all…

      That’s an unfair presumption. I’ve never been involved with a man who was in a relationship/married(and yes I’ve been propositioned) and I’ve never been unfaithful in my relationships.
      I just happen to find the way Aniston handled her divorce (admitting that Brad didn’t cheat on her and that there were other reasons for the breakup while publicly trashing Angelina and making fun of her kids) annoying, manipulative and childish. Other posters find the way she handled everything ‘classy’ thats their right but that doesn’t mean that they would or wouldn’t find a justification to get involved with a man who is in a relationship.

      • stinky says:

        good points – true – we can all rationalize things, over-simplify, etc…

      • GHJackie says:

        Aniston NEVER made fun of the kids, (the only time she’s even mentioned them was in a crack against the tabloids) nor did she say anything about AJ other than “uncool”. For a “trashing”, that’s pretty mild.

        As for “admitting that Brad didn’t cheat on her”, wasn’t it more like “I choose to believe my husband”? That’s hardly “admitting” he didn’t cheat on her, something she would have no way of knowing anyways.

        What is said during the official “we’re splitting statement” can hardly be taken for anything more than a negotiated best-case PR blurb decided upon by two very public people.

      • Jayna says:

        She said she chose to believe he didn’t have an affair. She realized later they did, or at least an emotional affair. Angie did say her kids would see the movie where they fell in love.

        But people who want Angie to wear a scarlet letter the rest of her life are silly and need to move on. Brad and Jen have.

        Natasha Richardson fell madly in love with Liam Neeson and had an affair on her husband. She and Liam had a beautiful 17-year marriage before she died. No one put a scarlet letter on her.

      • mln76 says:

        GHJackie…
        AGAIN you see it your way. I see it mine. I don’t think it was appropriate for her to make any comments about the kids individually especially 30 seconds after calling Angelina ‘uncool’. She knew what she was doing and it was all in the name of her dumb dog movie.
        You can call that classy if you want that’s your right but I found it really low and at that point I was actually more sympathetic to Aniston then Jolie.

      • GHJackie says:

        I didn’t call it classy or unclassy. I’m very simply pointing out that contrary to your comment, Aniston’s only reference to the kids was to say that (paraphrased) the tabloids had no clue, for all they knew, the three of them were friends, spent their weekends together and she’d have one of the kids perched on her hip.

        There was no making fun of the kids in there anywhere, she was giving snark to the tabloids about knowing diddly squat and making things up. Taking that as “making fun of the kids” is clearly an effort in overreaching just to have something to criticize.

        As for the uncool comment, well yeah, it’s not very cool to make reference to being eager to get to work because you couldn’t wait to see the married man you were working with. At least from the point of view of the woman who was his wife when that was happening and who had no idea it WAS happening. And who’s husband had told her the contrary.

        I’d refer here to the first post in this number. There is nothing ok about throwing yourself into the path of a married man, whether he’s willing to stray or not. What he chooses to do or not is irrelevant. You can’t force a man to stray, but you can certainly give him the opportunity.

      • Shay Kay says:

        Hi there GHJackie! Thank you for reminding people the context of Aniston’s quote about the children. She definitely was making fun of the tabloids and obviously not the children in any way, shape, or form.

        Jen’s not crying about Brad or laughing at Jolie’s ring (although she probably did about the leg bombing but h@ll you can’t blame her for that) but “Jen is o.k. with it” isn’t going to make the National Enquirer’s headlines now is it?

      • GHJackie says:

        @Shay Kay: She probably didn’t laugh at the ring, but I’ll bet she might have been thinking “Poor Angelina, she’s stuck wearing the ring version of Brad’s uncomfortable furniture”.

    • aprayerforthewildatheart says:

      I get a really sick feeling when any grown a$$ adult tries to blame their situation on others. I just can’t with situations like this. I can feel sympathy to some extent, but ultimately we are all responsible for ourselves, and our own happiness.

      If a person can’t be happy without someone to ‘complete’ them; then they’re pathetic. I can think of about a million far worse things to go through than a f-cking divorce, as an adult. Just when does personal responsibility finally kick in? Please… 🙄

      I will care about all of the children in this world who will deal with so much pain, and die before they even get the chance for a sh-tload of self pity…smdh

  34. I’m pretty sure she has moved on. It was bittersweet when my ex boyfriend got married, even though I was with my now husband. It’s a door that closes on a part of your past. But that doesn’t mean you haven’t moved on.

  35. Relli says:

    You know its never easy to hear that someone you once loved has moved on. I am not talking about the guy you dated for 3 weeks and never called again. I am talking about someone you had you considered a real connection with. While I am sure that it stings, I doubt she collapsed in a heap of Ben & Jerry’s.

    And since in the last post everyone was talking about the length of time the Brange has been together vs. the Honey Blond Highlights Crew, I though i would share this personal anecdote:

    My friend K was fiercely in love with R and they had a passionate relationship. K and I become roommates and my friend T starts hanging around and she starts getting interested despite already being happy with someone else. So they start sneaking off together using me as an excuse and after a few times of R catching on to their lies so he break it off with K. Now T & K start dating but there is always drama because they ALL have the same friends but they end up sticking it out. However, K never really moves on and blames herself for every thing that R does in his life, graduating late and joining the army. AND eventually decides to break it off with T after 6 YEARS because she is now sure she made a mistake. K & T break up and she reconnects with R on Facebook and they start corresponding. At the point where she feels comfortable again she calls him to tells him everything she had been holding in for years; that she still loves him, that she made a mistake and picked the wrong man. The line goes quiet for a few minutes and then he tells her that her breaking up with him is the best thing that could of ever happened to him. It gave him the courage to break free, travel the world, and see things with different eyes. That he was really happy now and that he was sorry she had never been able to let go because the only person she was harming was herself. Then he told her to never call again.

    My point of this story is life moves on without your permission or forewarning all the time. Only a true narcissist would believe that a former lover still holds an inextinguishable flame.

    • stinky says:

      v-e-r-y interesting!

    • Jayna says:

      OMG, you are so right. My friend married a guy with two kids, who had been devastated by his ex-wife cheating on him and leaving him. He adored his children and it was a painful split. He dated, but when he met my friend he fell madly in love. They married and moved out of state for work. His ex had a lot of drama for years with the man she left her husband for. They finally split and she dated other men and eventually married. So ten years later she is a mess, being dumped by her second husband, and she called her ex saying she made a mistake and wanted him back. The man had been married to my friend for nine years and loved her madly and considered her his soulmate and was flabbergasted that his ex would ever think there was a chance, except she was a narcissist and felt he could never get over her and must still hold a torch for her since he was so brokenhearted ten years before. Nope.

      • Relli says:

        NO WAY! I did not realize that there were more people out there like my (former)* friend. The whole time she was telling me about reconnecting with her ex to declare her undying love i was trying to hide my “WTF were you thinking” face. Partially because i knew he didn’t feel the same way about her anymore, and hadn’t for a LONG time. R & I had discussed the whole thing in length on numerous occasions after, and I had tried to tell her kindly so many times that it was time for her to move on. But mostly because i could believe how out of touch she had been for the last 7 years that she didn’t notice that life had moved on.

        * Former because its really hard to be friend with a narcissist and eventually I got tired of her too… but she makes for some great stories.

  36. Sa11i says:

    why would brad let his ex wife of 7 years know about his engagement? That makes no sense.

    • GHJackie says:

      Common courtesy towards someone who is about to be media blitzed if she steps foot outside.

      Unless you meant the “missing a sensitivity chip” thing, in which case it really does make no sense.

      • aprayerforthewildatheart says:

        Well, I guess we’ll all get the word on how to properly handle this type of situation, when Justin contacts Heidi in order to let her know he’s marrying Jen, before telling the media…

        I’m sure JA will insist that JT do the ‘classy’ thing; you know because of the ‘media blitz’ that Heidi will face, sans an almighty PR machine a la Huvane. Heidi might even have to shed a tear without releasing a tell-all article excoriating JT. Or maybe SHE will have actually moved on, and not feel the need to say; “Eddie Munster called, he wants his look back”…Who can say…*monster sideye* at the glass houses…

      • GHJackie says:

        What exactly does Justin’s behaviour have to do with Pitt’s? Last time I looked, they weren’t the same person. Last time I looked, the Jen, Justin and Heidi triangle wasn’t a tabloid staple making millions either.

        It’s more than a little disingenious to “not be able to understand” why he might give her a head’s up, given the context. Get real.

  37. Olive says:

    Brad could have called her to give her a heads up that this was happening and be prepared for the media blitz that will happen next. And, yes if I was Jen I would start crying too knowing that crappy stories like this will haunt me for the rest of my days.

  38. Runs with Scissors says:

    If she was upset, it’s because her gravy train is finally chugging to a halt.

    Now if she makes references to keeping old voice mails from her “husband” YEARS after they break up, she’ll look too much like a stalker.

    She’s stuck with the Herve Villechaize knock off on her own little sinking fantasy island…

    • GHJackie says:

      The amount of money this woman is worth, I doubt she has to rely on her salary in order to mainain her standard of living.

      For the record though, talking about tabloids and gravy trains, it’s the Brange who has been making money hand over fist selling photos to them. I wonder how much they’ll negotiate for the wedding pix.

      Seems to me, that didn’t happen after Pitt’s first wedding. No selling of wedding photos back then.

  39. Ari says:

    I am not a fan of Aniston and will always be a brangeloonie but this is seriously just sad already. She “couldnt believe he would ever marry angie?” seriously? they have a multitude of KIDS TOGETHER. I would be more surprised she thought they wouldnt have gotten married SOONER. wtf world? leave the poor woman alone and allow her to just bathe in her own happiness for a moment – jeez louise!

  40. Jayna says:

    Why would Brad call her? They’ve been divorced for seven years. She isn’t even on his radar to worry about calling. His parents didn’t even know. Spare me about giving her a heads up excuse. Did he call her when he moved in with Angie? Did he call her every time he knocked Angie up or adopted a baby? Did he call her every time he or Angie were going to give an interview about how in love they were? I guess he needs to call her for the rest of his life every time a big event happens. It’s been seven years with a lot happening in between. He didn’t call her on this one.

    • aprayerforthewildatheart says:

      This^^

      • GHJackie says:

        While I’m fully willing to believe that he would be enough of a thoughtless d*ck to not give her a head’s up that the pap and tabloid vultures would be descending on her once it was known, I’m surprised that his fans also think he’s an insensitive jerk.

      • aprayerforthewildatheart says:

        Why is he a d*ck? I just don’t get why people feel BP owes JA anything. I’m pretty sure you end a marriage because you don’t want to be with that person anymore, and with that end comes the inevitability that, at some point, you no longer have to contact your EX about every personal thing that goes on in your life. Seriously, where does it end? She’s not his child, she’s his ex-wife…a grown a$$ woman. Come on now…

      • GHJackie says:

        Did you miss the bit about pap and tabloid vultures? They are all very public people who’s so-called triangle has been the joy of the tabs for years. Divorced for 7 years or not, it’s clear to anyone with half a brain that the engagement news would make her even more a target for a while. Pitt understands image control every bit as much as the rest of them. So yes, it would make him a thoughtless d*ck to not take the time, or have one of his people take the time, to forewarn her so she doesn’t get surprised with the news in front of dozens of paps when she takes her dog out for a walk that morning.

    • cameron says:

      I’m with Jayna on this one. Why would he have to call her, it’s not like they had children and forever connected. They’ve been apart for over 7 years. If she were to get married again do you think she should call Brad and let him know before the press. Quite fankly, I don’t think he would give a damn. Why do people feel Brad should make these calls to his ex’s, GOOP included. He owes them nothing.

  41. cookie says:

    Wonder who was in the house with her listening to the conversation. What a joke. By the way, Jen is set to co-star in a movie called Miss You Already as best friends with Toni Collette whose character is pregnant while Jen’s character has breast cancer. Filming in London in the fall.

    • Carolyn says:

      Wow. What a great movie plot (where’s the sarcasm font?). Will totally be avoiding this one.

  42. aprayerforthewildatheart says:

    And, so it begins…LOL! SMDH

  43. Blackberry says:

    I want to know who actually watched her collapse on the floor. Then I want to know why they didn’t make a video of it with their phone and post it on youtube.

  44. Rena says:

    Complete and total BS, LOL. Her Dad is on record quite recently as saying she and Brad did not talk, not at all. As usual Nat Enq is in fantasy land, and anyone who believes this crap needs to reevaluate their lack of education and remediate this lack in their lives.

    Yes Brad gave a heads up to GP as he likely might have still had lingerling feelings for her and they had only been apart for a few years. Brad’s present life is quite different from that time in 2000, 12 long YEARS ago, in 2012 he has 7 YEARS with ANGELINA & 6KIDS.

  45. sayanniething says:

    This story makes no sense. Brad and Angelina are not a new thing — they have had MULTIPLE BABIES together and adopted a few too. Marriages, especially in Hollywood, are temporary, but children are forever. Babies are like tattoos: you can quote me.

    In other words, I think somewhere around Baby #5 or something, Jen got the message that Brad wasn’t coming back. I’m sure that was kind of devastating at the time. But I’m sure, by now, an engagement announcement provokes a twinge of annoyance at best.

    Who cares if Brad and Angelina get married? They are already a FAMILY. And if Aniston didn’t get that memo, then she is totally kookoo, out of her gourd, banana-pants cray-cray.

    Not likely.

  46. G says:

    This is just the same boring story dressed up in more drama so the Enquirer can justify repeating it.

    She’s a different person by now leading a totally different life.

  47. Bella says:

    Jen has always worried how things look
    and has a shallow boring needy personality.Brad must have gone to heaven when he met Angie..I`m sooooooo
    happy for them!!

    • Freya says:

      He absolutely upgraded. It doesn’t mean that Angelina is perfect. It just means that he has chosen her. I happen to like her too, with all her imperfections.

  48. lol says:

    Laughing at Brad’s life. He’s clueless and insensitive. His whole life, past and present is filled with drama. And when he’s not whining in interviews about his religious upbringing and boring life with Jennifer, he’s blowing sunshine up his own butt for being englightened.

    All these women, Gwenny, Jen, and Angie are better off on their own. Brad needs to find himself and find out who he is instead of taking on the interests and lifestyle choices of the women in his life.

    • GHJackie says:

      ^^^^^
      this

    • pwal says:

      Actually, I think that Brad is very self-aware about him – it’s just that females who are unwilling to accept that are game to re-write things in order to fit their agenda. Those basketball pics and the story that accompanied them should’ve been a definite example of Brad’s character – he was disappointed with not accomplishing a goal, so he reconfigure this goal and went full-steam ahead with it.

      Maybe next time some people should stop fixating on his haircut in the picture, how goofy he looked at 14, or how much Shiloh resembled him and concentrate really hard and absorb the true essence, not the superfluous crap that doesn’t mean a damn thing!

      Try clinching – it may help.

  49. Brenda says:

    They have 6 kids together and yet Jen didn’t think this was coming and colapsed because she was so shocked? really? So stupid.

  50. The Original Mia says:

    I just want to know did she swoon like Scarlett O’Hara or drop to the ground like a rock. Inquiring minds want to know!

  51. Anon says:

    How many men have slept with Jennifer, (that we even know about) since Brad? Oh my and some of those rumors associated with those encounters…one would think Jen wasn’t too bothered with her divorce when she hooked up immediately with Vince Vaughn and appeared on Oprah and all. Jen and her PR Guru sure do know how to play the PR game, sometimes it might end up biting them in their rears.

    • Carolyn says:

      PR overload is already backfiring. Huvane’s cohorts on here conveniently forget the fact that Brad has only been with Ange since THE BREAKUP OF THE CENTURY and Jen’s been with a lot of men since. And none of them have wanted to keep her. Wanderlust was a bomb and everything she’s been in except for the dog movie has also tanked. People aren’t forking out $$ to watch her rotten acting. They’ve wised up.

  52. JulieM says:

    This is the biggest barn of horse manure I’ve ever heard. Well, maybe not, but it’s near the top of my list.

  53. Billy says:

    I honestly don’t think that she gives two sh*ts. I mean, he has six kids with her.

  54. Nakli says:

    Tell me why Brad is pitched as this ultimate trophy-man in Hollywood that women must have? If nothing, it makes these seemingly successful women look pathetic. For once I wish Brad is told clearly in his face that he is not all that!

    • pwal says:

      Maybe females were the reason why Brad was deemed a trophy catch. He certainly didn’t create an image of being God’s gift. Females decided that a good-looking, blond-haired blue-eyed guy with killer abs was their gift. Unfortunately, he didn’t play very well with that image. In fact, his feeling towards that image can be comparable to that female black cat in the Pepe Le Pew cartoons – clawing and scratching to get away from the stink and the source of the stink – bizarre, possessive, narcissists, completely oblivious to certain tells like disinterest and revulsion.

      He has been told that he wasn’t ‘all that’ via being cheated on, and the long time it took to get to where he is now. Some people’s problem is that he felt the sting of rejection and disappointment and yet, got the hell on with it.

    • Hipocricy says:

      Aniston and her camp made him a catch when they decided that the only way she could have a chance to approach him was through a blind date, unlike all his former girlfriends and Jolie where it was the natural circumstances and attraction.

      Sorry, if you need a blind date to approach someone you covet, then you know he was out of your league to begin with and maybe would have not given you that chance in natural circumstances…hence Aniston loosing plenty of weight at that time to fit his ‘genre’….then crying for him after the legal separation, then the divorce though you are in other relationship which is insulting for your current beau, agreeing to titles like ‘5 years after Brad’ ignoring all the men you had in between, like their importance is nothing compared to him.

      Nor Jolie, nor Pitt have had their respective exes used that way in such extent. Never see ‘2 years after Gwyn’ or how Gwyn was coping when he married Jen though Gwyn was his first fiancee and part of the original golden couple. Never see title about Johnny Lee Miller and how he was coping after Jolie & BBT’s marriage.

      It’s only Aniston and her camp and her hens who put Pitt on a pedestal every now and then, everytime they feel the need to compare him to her last boyfriend, like he is the ultimate measure of comparison among all the men she ever had. They can pretend it’s not true, that behaviour, the constant comparsion to Brad who is her ex, ex, ex, ex, ex, ex, ex to her current is a powerful testament of the mega importance they put in Pitt, the ultimate measure of comparison when it comes to men in jennifer’s life.

      • Josephina says:

        Word!

        However, I think you you gave too much truth in one passage. The Jenhens will surely fire back at you for pointing out their participation in this mess.

        How come Justin isn’t compared to Gerard Butler, John Mayer (they are more alike), Tate Donovan, Vince Vaughn, Paul Sculfor, the Grip Boy, Mr. Sport Fvck, etc. She forgot all of those men?

        It is up to her to portray what she wants in interview. She always mentions or references Brad. Yet there has not been ONE PHOTO of them together in any event since 2004. She would bring Brad’s name up even while she was dating other men. She has mentioned Brad more than she mentions her father…what does that tell you?

        Jenhens and the media bring up Brad because they are following Jen’s lead.

  55. Janet says:

    Oh sweet Jesus Christ, G! M! A! F! B!

    The National Enquirer is more full of caca than an overflowing commode. From some of the comments I’ve seen here and on other sites, I think a lot of her fans probably collapsed, but Aniston herself? No way.

    The tabloids have been feeding off this bullshit for seven years. They have a vested interest in keeping it going. As long as her fans keep obsessing about it, the tabloids will keep the bullshit coming. It’s fed their bottom line since 2005 and they will be damned if they are going to let go of it now.

  56. sup says:

    the meangirl in me kinda wants to believe this. not that i do so im not really that mean :p too melodramatic

  57. The OG Sasha says:

    Bwahahahahaha! Bullchit! In fact, biggest, lamest b.s. story about the “Brad/Angelina/Jennifer triangle” yet.

  58. CHRISTIAN_GIRL says:

    The belief that Brad does not have his own mind is another driving point in the crazy lane.

    He left his now ex-wife to never return as HIS mind told him. Deal with that fact. He knows what he wants and how to get it. It’s not who he left, that is problematic, it’s who he left her for that does not sit well, as it should not. This pairing came out of left field. Really BP and AJ? NO ONE COULD HAVE IMAGINED IT UNTIL IT BLEW UP IN OUR FACES. Hollywood, the media was NOT in control, but BP and AJ were and it is the same to this very day. And for that they should be punished, except it’s not anyone elses call. This ring is more the same. A year to make and under the radar? See, Brad and Angie are not playing fair as puppets, but instead calling their own shots, so expect more of this mess until people wise up. JT can’t help. He is STILL a non-issue. Nothing can make him and JA happen.

    Not believing HE called, but his manager also Courtney Cox’s could have. Not believing JA fell out or JT was pissed. Not believing anything relationship wise between those two.

    As far as his lovely life with Angie, if there is anything either of them don’t like, they will change it. This engagement is one of those things. They want to move further along going forward, so they are. That they can make decisions based on what works best for them is a strong point, not a weakness. They dropped ring, UNHCR promotion, than took off to make happy times as a family. While away, Cannes competetion is announced. Who is bold enough to do that. They have a plan and I can’t wait for the reveal. I wish them well and give THEM much respect. That other couple frontin, not any.

    • phool says:

      CHRISTIAN_GIRL April 21, 2012 at 1:19 am
      I love to read you posts they are always postive in regards to Angelina & Brad thanks again

  59. XYZ2 says:

    Effe Aniston! Pitt wanted babies, (a family!) Aniston didn’t! She wanted to be “Rachel Green” her whole life… Jolie didn’t still nobody from no one. If aniston loved Pitt? The pathetic Bitch would be 3 deep in Aniston-Pitt babie. Pitt isn’t no prize catch,but BITCH PLEASE!

  60. ukl1 says:

    Toobad this site doesn’t want real things to be said

  61. LOLOL says:

    LOL so she said she “doesn’t care in her second ” comment with in 5 days to give a way for tabloids to put her she is victim or she pinning for brad. Then as predicted she come out and deny that all is said and mad to put her to gain e assoication benifit. No JP fan thinks she is pinning for Brad rather she make this same kind of passive agressive moves so she stay attach to Brad andangie . If taboids are real, they would put her in the desreving headline that say she is using brad and Angie association for relevancy again and put the details the things she doing and has been doing. That wont happen so instead they put her with usual assoication attachement headlines to work up her fans and paid people to go off on JP then the circle will contiune. 7 years and 17 men passed the same old formula.

  62. Catty says:

    Angie fans love to believe that Jen is still crying over Brad. The reason – they have to believe that Brad is the prize that Angie won. That Angie was more deserving of Brad so the adultery was A-OK!! The sad truth is Angie got the booby-prize – just take a look at the two of them. Compared to photos from Mr. & Mrs. Smith they have both aged 20 years. And don’t start saying looks don’t matter because all we have heard from you idiots for years was how “Beautiful” they were – some even said it was OK for Brad to cheat on Jen because Angie was younger and hotter. Well not anymore!! Out of the three Jen is the only one who has come out of this with class, dignity and glowing beauty.

    I would also like to comment that Brad & Angie got off easy because of Jen’s class – she could have finished them off with her best-selling Vanity Fair issue but she didn’t. And she never mentioned Brad on Oprah – post a link if you can find one but you won’t because that is another loon lie!! And you loons bittch because Jen had the nerve to talk about HER MARRIAGE and HER HUSBAND but have no problem with Angie having an affair with him. Your hypocrisy knows no bounds!!

    And since Brad & Angie are all about the money and attention THEY had to drag Jen into this “promise of an engagement” nonsense because the public DID NOT CARE – you all know it but don’t want to admit it. 7 years and 6 kids and they get engaged – why not just get married quietly with their children?? Because they want to be paid for it, that’s why. You all can keep drinking the Kool-Aide but this little stunt is apparent to anyone with half a brain – attention and money – they need it like oxygen.

    Oh, and anyone who says Justin is not hotter than Brad is lying through their teeth – have fun Angie with your old hobo of a fiance who likes to run around in a onesie!!

    • sup says:

      i don’t believe she is still crying over brad but crying over the a-list status that being his wifey gave her. which is why she started her p.r. attack about the time she made the uncool comment. she is buying her a-list presence, she is not a movie opener and her fame is limited to terrible romantic comedies in which she can’t even act. i believe she was over brad about the time she dated john icknast mayer, but after that humiliating break up and seeing how brangie shone while she was left to obscurity and oblivion, she decided to get p.r. revenge. it’s not about loving brad anymore, never really was. hell she even said that he wasn’t the love of her life while she was still married to him!

      and btw brad isn’t hot, i never got what the big fuss was about but justin is just downright fugly-he looks like a disproportionate fake tanned monkey with long arms and all the mascara and hairpieces make it worse-no matter how hard henistons try they cannot deceive their eyes. and if they can they should invest in contact lenses -snort-

      • guest says:

        I agree with almost everything you said except that Brad isn’t hot. He is the only caucasian actor that women of all races in my office talk about. I think it’s the way he walks, his full lips, He’s sexy with a great body and he loves his family. I’m sorry, but I don’t think there’s another actor that fits that description. Brad in his 20’s, meh..but Brad in his late 30’s, 40’s is HOT!! That’s why every up and coming Actor is the Next Brad Pitt. You never hear this actor is the next George Clooney, Matt damon, Ben Affleck, Johnny Depp.

        Even the “Dancing with Stars” guy is labeled “The Latin Brad Pitt”.

    • hatuh says:

      yessss. this.

  63. Meanchick says:

    It’s like high school. Enough.

  64. Helly says:

    it’s like we’ve been watching Twilight since 2005!! this is stupid! i hate Twilight but i like Angelina

  65. RHONYC says:

    man! what happened to her chiseled guns?!

    since hookin’ up with that Justin dude her arms have gotten floppity.

    🙁