Mr. & Mrs. Smith began production exactly ten years ago. Think about that. Ten years ago, Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt, actors who had barely met or spoken to each other before, were stepping onto the set for the first time, flirting, laughing, working, playing a husband and a wife with secrets, perhaps grabbing lunch together some days. And by this time nine years ago, Brad’s marriage to Jennifer Aniston was either over and he was about to begin or had already started a full-on love affair with Angelina that is still one of the biggest gossip stories to this day. All because of a little film called Mr. & Mrs. Smith – which wasn’t so “little” even. At the time, it was the biggest hit of both of their careers. Anyway…
According to The Enquirer’s gossip guy Mike Walker, Aniston was recently SHOCKED when she chanced upon a private screening room that was playing Mr. & Mrs. Smith.
Jennifer Aniston and Justin Theroux were touring a multimillion-dollar Hollywood Hills home which a friend had just bought, gushing as they walked through one magnificent room after another – until their hosts ushered them into a state-of-the-art screening room, and Jen suddenly gasped.
Upon the screen, larger than life, where ex-husband Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie in a sexy scene from the movie that ended up ending Jen’s marriage, ‘Mr. & Mrs. Smith’.
Said an insider: “The couple’s teenage kids had been watching the film with friends, and were totally oblivious to Jennifer’s shocked look. Their parents immediately grabbed the remote and turned the movie off – but not before Jen was out the door.”
“The couple caught up with her, apologizing profusely and Jen later admitted to a close pal that seeing Brad and Angelina in that film still hits a raw nerve. But not wanting to make her pals feel uncomfortable, Jennifer brushed it off as no big deal – and insisted on continuing their tour!”
[From The Enquirer, print edition]
“The couple’s teenage kids had been watching the film with friends…” Sounds like at least one of those teenagers is a Brangeloonie. Like, they heard that their parents were inviting Jennifer and Justin to the house and the kid thought, “I should put on Mr. & Mrs. Smith, LOL.” And that kid’s name is MADDOX!!! *cue dramatic music* Anyway, do you believe this? Eh. Can you still have a “raw nerve” about something that went down ten years ago? And should you be so openly flustered and put out about your ex-husband nine years out… when you’re standing next to your new fiancé?
Photos courtesy of WENN.
I absolutely love this cheesy movie. Their chemistry was off the chain. So pretty and sexy. Plus, Kerry Washington!
I always thought they have no alchemy in this movie
Awesome translation mistake, don’t kill me!! Alchemy is the pseudo science of turning base metals into gold. LOL!!!
I think you meant chemistry. But I like alchemy much better!
Alchemy, bluhare, was the precursor of chemistry.
alchemy for the win! That’s awesome, and I am not making fun. At all.
Haha I love this movie too, it’s a Valentine’s Day staple here. And the way he looks at her in some scenes, there is just this genuine adoration that’s so sweet. 🙂
Yes, their chemistry was palpable. Plus, there was almost too much gorgeous when they were in scenes together.
It’s been long enough that teens and young adults would not know or care that Brad Pitt was once married to Aniston. IF this happened, I doubt the teens wanted to f*ck with her. Maybe that’s what she finds upsetting… her marriage to Pitt is ancient history. It was not an epic love story.
Fair point–because if Brad and Angelina break up, ever, that will never leave them. They’ll be like Angelica and Jack—I saw this interview when Angelica wrote her memoirs…..the interviewer said that when she got the book, she tried to skip ahead to see when Angelica would talk about Jack.
LOL girl stop! Regardless of whom he was/is with, Brad Pitt has consistently been popular with the female crowd, and this whether his films were good or not, 1998 (timeline when he met Aniston) Meet Joe Black he made women dream about death looking like him, Fight Club well no words for Tyler Durden, Ocean’s Eleven he was the yummy boy who would eat all the damn time, Snatch he was a funky Irish version of Tyler Durden, Spy Game he was the little baddie spy, and even the crapfest Troy, it was all about muscles, little skirt full of testosterone with Eric Bonus Bana!….
Yes, VC, Brad and Angie have the epic movie star love story. His marriage to Aniston is the relationship he had before the epic love story. I think that’s the thing that might burn a little. No one really wants to be a mere footnote in their ex-husband’s life. Hopefully, Thereoux is to Aniston what Angelina is to Brad.
Elodie, I guess your comment is for me, but you’re preaching to the choir. I have always been an unabashed fan of his. To be clear, Brad Pitt is an A+ list movie star. I think most young adults and teens are well aware of him. It seems probable that they don’t know or care that he had a short-lived marriage to Aniston.
@VC… that’s funny about the Jack and Anjelica story, because she split her memoirs in two and the first part that was published was only about her childhood and teens/early 20s. In other words, no mention of Jack (she did have a relationship with Terry Richardson’s dad). Brad and Angelina are the modern Hollywood love story and if they do break up (and I hope they don’t) their names will always be tied to each other.
@Peppa
That’s what I meant. When she wrote the first part of her memoirs, the interviewer wanted to know about Jack, even though they’ve been broken up for going on 30 years now. If Brad and Angelina break up (which I don’t see happening, not after a double mastectomy, but anything is possible), their names will always be tied to each other. It’s just like Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor, Angelica and Jack, heck Paul Newman and Joanne……
It’s an ok movie, I don’t see much of their chemistry onscreen tho
Same. I didn’t see much of the chemistry. Thing is both were incredibly attractive but their scenes together it didn’t fizzle per se. Brad Pitt comic timing was good but I didn’t feel like it was in synch with Angelina Jolie sensual sexy badass babe character, for example the tango scene, Brad Pitt owned that scene at being funny and sarcastic and totally eclipsed her, whereas the fight scenes Angelina Jolie owned it at kicking ass and the car chase… and Brad being funny when he kicks her behind the sofa before she kicks him in the nuts, his comic timing was good. It seemed they were both good individually and not good in synch per se… I guess it’s a matter of opinion, say for example her chemistry with Daniel Craig was much more palpable in Tomb Raider… argh I don’t know if t makes sense but oh well!
@Elodie, I agree they were out of sync in the way you described but I remember still thinking that they made a smokin’ hot couple. Not sure if that’s chemistry or not…
Girl bye.
Me three! Watched it 3 times and again 2 months ago as Australia keeps playing Angie’s movies on TV as she is here. Their chemistry is blatant you feel as if you are a peeping Tom.
I could imagine that it’s probably not her regular “go-to” popcorn fun movie (because it’s mine, I love it) but I really can’t see her getting worked up about it if she accidentally came across it like that.
The description of how it went down sounds too much like a scene from a sitcom for me… But I would have loooooved to see that!
She probably had a cocktail after and everything was fine
Exactly my thoughts: sitcom scene.
Wouldn’t this “friend” of theirs be more sensitive to them being over the house? Like there aren’t 50,000 other movies to watch at that time? Maybe the kids are evil? God, why do I care? I need to get out out of the house…
IF it’s true, and that’s a big IF, I think the kids were trolling. On a side note, poor Jen in the header photo. I hate it when someone takes a picture of me when I’m talking.
With this kind of friends, sure she doesn’t need enemies.
This is how she manages to stay relevant, and this is why she cannot move on.
U Nailed it 100%.
+1,000,000! She has got to stop planting these stories so she can coat-tail Brad & Angie. There was no cheating, no children and a lot of indifference on BOTH their parts. Aniston MIGHT get a little less ridicule if she slowed down on these transparent PR antics, but she seems addicted to it at this point. Sad that this is the best use of her money she can think of, but people that are this desperate for attention will do strange things.
I wasn’t going to say anything in case I got jumped on, but I’m glad someone else said what I was thinking – about this being planted by her/Huvane. After all, Maleficent is going to be getting promo attention, also Brad and his movie is doing the rounds this award season so…… Hey, past behaviour is a predictor of future behaviour.
Exactly!
Really you think Jenn planted this story herself? Sounds a bit far fetched to me. If it is true than that is incredibly sad and she should fire her PR team ASAP.
She should have fired him a long time ago. He makes her look ridiculous. But these silly stories he plants are what’s been keeping her on the tabloid covers all these years.
I guess Angelina must have planted the arm vein story for Maleficent PR, then.
Of course – why would she be upset about this movie? This was the catalyst for her current fame – “poor Jen” was born was from this movie. She’s been milking it ever since. Without her marriage, divorce, and endless search for true love, we wouldn’t even remember her.
that movie had one of the weakest plots ever
+1
I’m not sure I believe the story but I don’t think it’s weird that it would still strike a raw nerve. All tabloid crap aside, her husband fell in love with another woman while he was married to her and no matter what people think of Aniston….that’s something that most people would find hard to let go.
I’m not into the drama of the uncool Bermuda Triangle, but I could see how it still stings. You put it succinctly – one married woman saw her husband fall in love with another woman. Her husband’s and his new love’s chemistry were captured on film (in a movie) and preserved for all to see. I don’t care how far you have moved on in life, that has to sting, even a tiny bit.
I agree. Even if it was 10 years ago, and even if you’ve moved on, it’s still going to hurt to see your husband fall in love with another woman on screen. Even if Brad and Angie’s affair didn’t start in earnest at that time, the chemistry between them was sizzling, and they were both at the peak of their physical hotness. I think if this were any woman other than Aniston, there’d be no question that something like this could still hit a raw nerve.
That’s exactly it. Even if it was ten years ago and she has moved on, it’s still a bad memory that she would prefer to forget altogether. To have it shoved in her face again on a big screen, well that can’t have been fun.
@Ice Maiden, who wrote: “Even if it was 10 years ago, and even if you’ve moved on, it’s still going to hurt to see your husband fall in love with another woman on screen.”
If you’ve ‘really’ moved on, and made peace with it (and had fallen in love three times yourself since it all went down), why would it hurt?
I agree with you all. I am kind of “meh” on the whole love triangle story, but I do think it would still be hurtful for JA to see Mr and Mrs Smith. In her shoes, I could see myself looking at a scene and thinking “Did they already fall in love with each other by the time they filmed this scene? Or did it happen later?”
“If you’ve ‘really’ moved on, and made peace with it (and had fallen in love three times yourself since it all went down), why would it hurt?”
Because the human mind is complex and complicated thing. I’m married and extremely happy, but every once in awhile I get a pang when thinking about my last relationship – where it went wrong, what happened, and I’m sad about it. It doesn’t mean I love my husband any less or am any less happy in my relationship. Hell, I’m still hurt by Jimmy Giordiano cheating on me with Heather Reichstadt at uni and that was over 25 years ago.
I think Jen is hilarious and have watched Wanderlust at least five times. Watched all Friends seasons at least twice. Along Came Polly*at least 15 times. Jen is very talented, even though folks claim she plays the same role over and over. No one can make me hate her.
Angelina was incredibly beautiful during MMS. Brad and Jens marriage was rocky, Brad supposedly wanted children.
ANGIE adopts Maddox, Billy Bob Abandons Angie. Brad and Angie begin filming MMS, they develop a deep admiration~lust for eachother. I try not to judge, because love can be messy.
The Pitt-Aniston divorce seemed imminent long before Angie arrived.
I fully understand Jens anguish, but I believe Brad would have left Jen anyway. Angie just accelerated the Pitt-Aniston divorce.
she should have done a “Brenda Richie”. Remember when Brenda caught Lionel with his mistress (who became his wife, they’re now divorced). Brenda beat both their a**es. beat their a** then call it a day.
Ditto – doubt the story’s truth, but I think that might surprise anyone who went through a bad breakup/divorce. I often wonder how it must be to date someone super famous, and see them all over in movies, tv, interviews, ads, etc.
I think sometimes in her talk of celebs we forget that divorce is hard no matter who you are . I don’t have to love Aniston to have compassion that front.
Yeah I guess Heidi Bivens would feel the same way if she saw Wanderlust.Her partner of 14 years left her after hooking up with his costar.The costar who was dating Heidi’s partner while Heidi’s mother was telling people they were only friends.It was weeks later when Heidi
learned the truth and moved out.
Poor Heidi she couldnt cry about to VF or on Oprah C’est La Vie
Yes, I did think about this. Really, though, what are the chances anyone would be watching Wanderlust?
She could have spoken to any magazine, tv show, but she chose to act with dignity.
I’m with you, but only famous people who cry on tv are apparently worthy of any sympathy. Heidi, the one who acted with actual dignity, as noted by Eva, is forgotten.
This is how Aniston stays so relevant. The Brad/Angelina/Jennifer story is kept around by the tabloids for women to project their own feelings and insecurities on. That’s why we still all feel something reading this, even if we don’t believe it. Everyone knows what it’s like to lose at love, and so this story will be around forever. Probably (sadly) the best thing that ever happened to Aniston’s career!
I don’t know if it’s projecting – it could be for some who have unfortunately been through it. IMO, It’s more that they are larger than life personalities, and it’s easy to forget that they are simple humans with feelings like the rest of us. The way it was portrayed in the media, and spun by the various PR people involved, it played out like a story line straight out of a daytime soap opera. They all seemed like characters playing a part. Does that make sense?
Edit: Oops, this was covered above, but with a sitcom line instead of soap opera. Sitcoms are supposed to be funny/amusing, so I’m not sure it applies here. But sorry for repeating the same gist.
+1 yup. That’s why this thread has almost 160 posts even though it went up this morning. People that follow this triangle aren’t over it and Aniston certainly isn’t either. She and her PR have put this “woman scorned by Brad Pitt and Devil woman who needs to find her own happy,’ song on a loop. She’s not climbing off the coattails. PATHETICALLY, and again, she’s probably making plans to stalk Brad at the Oscars (I WON’T BE IGNORED BRAD!!!) Lol
My ex ended up with the woman he cheated on me with. Even though I know I’m better off, it still chafes when people bring them up.
My ex ended up with the person he cheated on me with as well. The way I feel is to him, “Thank you for showing me who you were so I could put you in the trash where you belong.” and to her, “Have fun with that cheater, who’s only with you because I dropped him in the trash, and have fun when he cheats on you too.” And he has, to no one’s surprise.
My two cents about this…Because I can’t believe this is still a story nearly a decade later.
I’m not Jenn fan or Ang Fan. I like them both in different ways.
But, as far as Jennifer needing to get over it…
Well, my personal experience with my husband and his ex wife still causes drama TO THIS DAY. Now, it hasn’t been nearly a decade. It’s only been 5 years.
My husband and I met after they had been divorced and therefore there was never even anything close to being an overlap of any sort. However, after 4 years of marriage and 5 years total of us being together… we are still harrassed by his ex wife. (Mind you, they had no kids). We recently went to an NYE wedding of our friend’s, My husband was the best man. The ex wife showed up and cursed us out ALL night long. She literally LOST her mind like a CRAZY woman. She would flip us off, scream at me and wave at me constantly.
It was insane! And scary!
We haven’t seen her in 5 years. We havent spoken to her in 5 years. (Though she does try to harass through family online) They dont share anything. So, all that to say, I’m sure it would kill her if she were in Jennifer’s situation considering she cant handle running into us once every 5 years.
I’m sure it isnt easy for Jenn to see a movie where her husband fell in love with another woman. So, in those ways I do feel bad for her. (See, I’m compassionate towards ex wives). Some are crazy!
I’d be more inclined to believe she’d freak out over seeing Leprechaun playing on the television than Mr. & Mrs. Smith. After all, shortly after that movie, she and her old nose broke up completely.
HA! ha ha ha ha! Daisy Fly you have made my day.
You win the prize for the best comment this week;)
LOL
Lolololol. Isn’t that the truth.
Awesome comment. LOL
You win the internet! 😀
You win! We can all go home now. LOL!!!
It’s hilarious that you’re making fun of Aniston’s nose job when Angelina has an entirely different face. There’s not one damn thing on it that hasn’t been tweaked to death. She really should have stopped with Mr. And Mrs. Smith era face- her surgeon had done some amazing work and then sh*t got out of control.
Fair point. The girl in Hackers and Gia is a significantly different face from the one today. It’s always seemed to odd to me that Angelina Jolie exudes such confidence, yet needed to mess with her features like a Kim K.
So funny! You are impossible. lol
Am I mean for laughing?
Not at all! This story is hilariously written about a ridiculous incident that likely didn’t occur. I think laughing is appropriate.
I love Mr. and Mrs. Smith…so much fun, and the chemistry between Angie and Brad was so hot! However, I’m sure, seeing them together, so obviously, enamored of each other, would still sting a little bit for Jennifer…I think it would for anyone, seeing an ex with the person he left you for…I know everyone will say, she should be over it, but I’m not saying she was crying all the way home, just a little sting for what could have been, I guess…
Mrsbpitt…
Yeah but to hear people tell it, their marriage was already on life support before angie. Almost like two roommates living together rather than life partners. So given that, how broke up could she be about after all this time??
Well, maybe the marriage was on life support, but at the time Jennifer wished that it wasn’t falling apart. Mr. & Mrs. Smith, even if it didn’t hurt Aniston’s heart, it has to hurt her EGO.
Well it is a bad memory for Jenn anyway and being reminded of that is never fun.
@Vee, who wrote: “Well, maybe the marriage was on life support, but at the time Jennifer wished that it wasn’t falling apart.”
And how exactly do you know that? And exactly how long did Jen really think Brad was going to stick around when she kept putting off having kids?
But it’s so much easier for her to blame the other woman than to see her role in the relationship. If there was no other woman, I’m guessing they would have had an amicable split. But he moved on before she did, and I think that’s what stings. She just does not strike me as someone who puts work into a relationship. And given their respective lives since then, Pitt and JA were not suited to each other.
@Jessibees
Well I guess she knows how Heidi feels, now doesn’t she?
What you said!
Surely, if she’s head over heels in love with whatshisname, her current/latest guy, I’d have thought seeing an old movie wouldn’t matter anymore.
Sigh…. I’m pretty sure the horse is nothing but skeletons and dust now.
What? Put down that stick you say? Nah. I think this old horse could take a l’il more beating still. 😛
Seriously though, I agree with those who understand why it would still sting a little bit even if Jennifer has moved on. He was a part of her life for seven years after all.
My first husband had affairs during our so called marriage, which ended 20 years ago. I’ve been happily married for 18 years now. I’m trying to imagine coming across actual documentation of one of my ex’s affairs, with a woman who broke up our marriage, and then went on to marry my ex and become a huge force in my chosen professional field. Nope, can’t muster a twinge. I feel lucky that he was careless enough to finally get caught, and every bit of pain was worth it because it got me to my present relationship. But I haven’t had it shoved in my face for 10 years, either. I don’t know, I sort of think she should be over it, but I feel compassion for her, too. I’m not her biggest fan, but that had to have been really hard.
And don’t forget, it was freaking BRAD PITT. When Jennifer married him, she was living the fantasy of millions–and I think it’s clear she really, truly loved him. Then to have Brad leave her, in a manner that all the world could see, for a woman who was sexier, prettier, younger, and more talented….I won’t be surprised if that still stings TWENTY years after.
Jen Aniston is quoted in an interview she and Brad gave jointly to VF during their marriage saying he wasn’t the love of her life. The most she would give the relationship was that he was ‘a love in her life’.
I always felt that she was shocked by the speed that he moved on to find the love of *his* life whilst she floundered with people like Vince Vaughn etc.
And the media didn’t help when they were printing reviews of the film that pointed out the sizzling chemistry between Brangelina.
I think that probably hurt more than the fact that he had left her because frankly based upon their own interviews, no matter how PR’d the interviews were, this marriage was broken long before Angelina came into the picture.
+1
She lied to him about wanting children and in the end chose her career over a family with the man you say she ‘really truly loved’. Sorry, but I honestly believe she never really genuinely loved him at all. Certainly not him for who he was, and certainly not enough to be honest with him. She was cruel to him imo. thats not love.
Yeah LAK – I agree with you again. She would not call him the love of her life, she forgot to mention him when she got her Golden Globe, and had to come back the next day on some morning show and mention that. She went to London for his birthday and they got into it, and she bailed on that. Yet, it seemed he was always the one in interviews supporting his wife …. I feel like she didn’t have the confidence to think it would ever last, and he probably got disappointed waiting for her to fully commit to that relationship. Also, he definitely wanted kids. I don’t think BP was actively looking elsewhere. Things were going South before AJ though. They just were not compatible in their goals for that relationship, and it cracked apart. JMHO.
Agreed. Same thing happened with my ex, we broke up and he knocked up and married another girl within 8 or 9 months (of course he was cheating but I didn’t know it at the time) and while I was happy to get out, it still hurt a little that he didn’t respect me enough to end it first. And before you Brangeloonies jump on me I’m not saying that this is what happened here, I’m just saying you can’t always control what you feel. *shrugs* life is messy and there are no set rules or allotted time to follow. The reason the dreaded triangle keeps going is because the fan’s feed it.
The fans feed it, but I can believe Jennifer had this reaction (if this story is true) just from the standpoint of her hurt pride. Hurt pride can last a really long time.
@ Zwella .. Yeah, I can believe she had this reaction too. Like someone else said, why would she ever want to watch that movie?
None of that is relevant since it was proven long ago that Brad and Angelina didn’t have an affair anyway. How about feeling compassion for Heidi Bivens, who has to see her ex Justin, with JENNIFER FREAKIN ANISTON, absolutely everywhere. She couldn’t even go to a magazine stand without him and The Jennifer Aniston plastered all over the mags. And Heidi and Justin were together for FOURTEEN (14) YEARS!! A lot longer than a 4 and a half year marriage in which (admitted by Aniston) they were separated for months at a time and shooting movies so hardly had a marriage, anyway. The pain for Heidi would be *immeasurable*!!! 🙁
I thought Angelina admitted in an interview that she and Brad started their relationship while he was married, and Jennifer publicly said that was “not cool” that she chose to reveal that in such a public way.
I have compassion for both of them. When you get married, you think it’s forever, and it hurts when it fails.
Not true at all, Angelina has never, ever admitted any such thing. Ever. What she said was she enjoyed working on the movie and couldn’t wait to get to work because she enjoyed working with the cast and loved playing with the firearms. Of course, the tabloids spun that how they wanted and Aniston gleefully jumped at the chance to attack Angelina and made that ‘uncool’ comment – which, by the way, she later tried to deny that she said it and tried to blame the Vogue Editor until Oprah called her out on her show and then aniston backtracked and was all, yes, ok,yes I did say it. So Aniston’s malicious little uncool comment can be seen for the low act it was and was a reflection on Aniston herself, no one else.
The only other comment Angelina made was when she said the kids got to see where their parents fell in love, [got married and tried to kill each other]. Ergo, Angelina was talking about their characters in the movie, getting married then being hired as assassins to kill each other. But all but 2 media outlets left that last bit of, to skew public opinion.
@GoodNamesAllTaken
Jennifer called Angelina uncool, because she said that she couldn’t wait to go to work–with Brad, in her Vogue interview. Also, Jennifer said that she didn’t like that Angelina was saying things were happening (between her and Brad) when she didn’t know what was going on–which I went back and read Angelina’s interview, and she spoke in very general terms about how she and Brad got together. The most specific she got was when she said that it took until the end of the shoot to realize that there was something more to their relationship. So I don’t get what she was talking about.
If she was talking about the ‘watch the film where their parents fell in love’—they both said that they started dating at the end of the film, and they did reshoots in March 2005. Plus, I do think that they had feelings for each other, but didn’t want to act on anything, until Brad had his relationship with Jennifer dealt with.
@Sal and VirginiaC
Oh, ok, I guess I remembered that wrong. I respect them for waiting.
Sal, I get the feeling you don’t care for Jennifer. Lol
Plus, I don’t know if anyone mentioned this here or not, but AJ said she did not get involved with BP till he and JA had split, because her dad cheated on his mom while they were together, and AJ would never do that, for that reason. I believe her. Why would she have said that at all if it wasn’t true? I mean, yes people lie, but I don’t think she is the type, and there was no need or advantage to making up a whopper like that.
Yeah, because no one has EVER lied about cheating. I’m sure if they had, they would just have come right out and told everybody all about it. Oh wait – they kindof did!
Was there NOTHING else to write? Did Jen A’s camp ‘text’ you pleading to keep her name ‘out there?’ Because she makes movies NO ONE goes to view.
This is a ‘dead horse’ Aging Angie has the sense to move behind the camera, while Jen A. thinks she can play a stripper and pack movie seats. Plaa-eeeze! Brad P. is a good looking chad and let’s just leave it at that.
I’m not a Jen fan, but her movies are actually profitable, because they are made with lower budgets. Look it up, and you will find that overall her movies have been profitable. So to say “no one goes to view (her movies) is not accurate.
Wow. This was sexist. First of all, we’re all ‘aging’ otherwise we’d be dead…and since when do women in their 30’s like Angie (or even beyond) have to skidaddle off the screen..do you say the same thing re Bullock, Natalie Portman, Amy Adams, Cam Diaz, Meryl Streep?? Angelina is 38. Not 48 like Aniston. Secondly Angelina at 78 will still look better than Aniston and her ugly friends, along with the enabling hags that coddle that hack.
Don’t believe it for a minute. And I’d probably be a little pissed at watching the moment my husband fell in love with another woman.
But how mad could you be if your marriage was all but over before he even met another woman?
Come on. People cling to bad marriages for years before actually splitting or never splitting at all. Letting go of even a crappy marriage can be really, really hard. And painful.
Have you ever been in a serious relationship? Some of these comments are mind blowing.
Which moment was that in the film.. I would love to know
The only way I would believe a woman is still ‘smarting’ and ‘hurt’ whenever she see some reference to her ex-husband who is now blissfully happy with another woman is if ‘that’ woman was obsessed and a hermit who had never found love again.
It is hard for me to believe a supposedly vibrant woman, who has been in love ‘three times’ since her marriage failed, and is currently ‘engaged’ to her reported ‘soul mate,’ still gets verklept ten years later upon seeing an old film with her husband and his current love.
It’s ‘verklempt’
Who cares Cecilia.
then I guess I’m an obsessed hermit for still feeling pain and sadness at relationships that have ended. At least I’m not bitter and cynical towards the relationships of people I have never met and never will meet.
@paranormalgirl-Did you forget that this is a JA/Brangie thread?
Your articulate and insightful posts do not belong here! 😉
@TOK Hahaha, so true. These threads crack me up!
paranormal girl, you are definitely not an obsessed hermit. I don’t think it is unnatural to feel ongoing pain from failed passes relationships, whether we have moved on or not. We are not robots.
O’Kitten (I am making you Irish) – I know, I know. LOL. I had 2 patients reschedule, so I’m just hanging out bored waiting for my last appointment.
it’s about ten years she is freaking out all the time on Mr and Mrs Smith.
I don’t care about the dead triangle, but damn! They were hawt in that film.
Lets ask what Heidi and Sandra Bullocks feels whenever they see Wanderlust or Friends episodes. You know because Jennifer slept with Sandra’s then fiance Tate Donovan and also with Justin while he was still living with his girlfriend of 14 years.
I am sure they are all fine. Most adults know how to move on with their lives. Just ask Laura Dern.
Or we could just ask Ben Harpers first wife, ahem. Or Billy Bob Thorntons fourth wife either.
@Badirene exactly!!!!
Right! Hollywood is so full of cheaters. I don’t understand why some people demonize one for the behavior but others get a complete pass.
You mean Dern who was busted for lying about still being with BBT?
Exactly! The hypocrisy on here takes my breath away. As usual there is one standard for Aniston and one standard for all the rest of the celebs. Aniston gets a pass for everything, as usual.
Sal, you’ve made it your life’s mission to make sure that Aniston is dragged through the mud at every opportunity. She’s certainly not getting a free pass with you on the job.
I LOVE MR. and MRS. SMITH.. adore them on screen together. Would love a repeat of them on screen.
Mr. and Mrs. Smith plays on TV all the time. I mean all the time. Hard to believe that movie started filming 10 years ago. Doug Liman needs to show all that great footage his ass is sitting on. I want more.
pretty much 9 years as a couple.. and just think people were saying it would end in a week.. Heck they are still waiting for the break up.. and yes there is a group of people that scream that everyday.
I would hope this is total BS.. has to be. because it would make her look completely well fill in your own adjective.
I’ll have to watch this again.. 50+ million opening weekend..
That film was almost as bad as The Tourist. If J.A freaked out when she saw it, I don’t blame her. Maybe some people move on really quickly from relationships but she was married to that man and as everyone knows, he fell in love with someone else when he began making that movie. I can imagine it still hurts to see it even after all this time – particularly when his new woman is practically superwoman in every way and they have loads of kids. Talk about having your face rubbed into it.
Yeah well, word on the curb is their marriage was already in the crapper long before AJ came along.
Remember the interview where Jen corrected a reported when she said she wasnt sure of Brad was the love of her life, the long separation when brad was filming troy for like 6 months and Jen never came to see him on set. And if gossip can be believed, they had had quiet separations during their marriage and of course the big issue…Brad wanted kids and a family, Jen obviously didnt.
So again, how much can it sting when the marriage was all but over long before Brad got with angie? Heck, I remember the vacay they spent before they separated, there were photos of them walking and hugging, holding hands. Looked intimate, right?
Wrong, looking back now, that was the farewell. Seems to me like they parted as friends. If JA was heartbroken doubt they would have taken a final vacay together to part ways.
I believe that Angelina Jolie worked with Brad Pitt in “Troy” which commenced production in 2003.
My first time to comment here after being a lurker for all these years. Love CB and all the snark … but please, be more factual. A simple google would have shown you that Angie was NEVER in Troy, she was in Alexander with Colin Farrell; she met Brad for the first time on Jan. 1, 2004 at the first day of shooting for Mr. and Mrs. Smith. Troy had Diane Kruger, Saffron Burrows and Rose Byrne as the female stars. Quit rewriting history just to make it seem that Brad and Angie met earlier.
The story sounds apocryphal as heck… but yeah, if it were I, I ‘d totally be stung. I’d try to laugh it off and be a good sport, but yeah, ouch, can’t say that would be a pleasant reminder even years after the fact and everyone has moved on.
They were hot in the movie and their chemistry was sizzling.. Anyway this sounds like a made up story. And yes there marriage was already on the rocks even before Angie came into the picture but Angie got all the blame for it.
Eh, I can’t say that I wouldn’t feel the same in her shoes. I don’t even engage in face book stalking my ex’s because damn, who needs all that shoved in your face? I also don’t think it comes down to how many years it’s been, or that she’s happy with a new fiancé , or that Brad and Angie have been together so long, etc…I think it comes down to how you lose someone you loved, were married to and had a life with. My guess is that whole kit and caboodle was an extremely painful period in Jen’s life and every bit of media for a few years was salt in a raw wound. Think about it…are you more at peace with an ex where the relationship naturally played itself out and you parted amicably or the dude who publicly humiliated you and broke your heart???
You mean how Theroux publicly humiliated Heidi Bivens and broke her heart? That Aniston could turn around and do that (for the second time: Aniston had an affair with Tate Donovan when he was with Sandra Bullock) to another woman is PROOF POSITIVE that she was never cheated on or humiliated or broken hearted. On the contrary, Aniston is the one who has humiliated Brad, Sandra, Heidi and apparently Chris Gartin’s wife. Aniston is a serial homewrecker so its clear she felt no pain or humiliation at all, or else she wouldn’t turn around and give that same pain to other women. Case closed on that alone, imo.
How in the world did Brad Pitt publicly humiliate Jennifer Aniston?
OH MY GOD. Really?
He didn’t Emma. He fell out of love and didn’t want a future with her anymore, but because he’s Brad Pitt everything was magnified 1,000,000x . The tabloids made a narrative that became their golden goose and so did Jennifer’s PR.
Sounds like a made-up story to me. Do teenagers watch movies from 9 years ago nowadays?
I’m neutral on Angelina, but I remember seeing that movie on a plane years ago and thinking how hot she was then. I think that was the pinnacle of her hotness. She was the perfect weight, her skin looked gorgeous, and she was such a bad-ass in that movie.
I love Mr and Mrs Smith,it has to be one of my best movies ever,made me Angie’s biggest fan.I actually thought they were married in real life before making the movie,how is it possible that they never met before it?just once?
Angelina in “Mr & Mrs Smith” is my all-time nr 1 girl crush!
I agree. I love Angelina as an actress and as a person and I always think she’s beautiful. I find in this movie, during that time, she was totally at her hottest, she was sooo sexy and gorgeous, still has a sexy vibe about her today, but in this movie it was off the charts.
Yeah, it sounds like a made up story to me, too. I highly doubt that the teenagers were watching “Mr. and Mrs. Smith.”
Doubt the story is true, but most kids that age (or anybody under 40 who isn’t a tabloid addict) wouldn’t know who Aniston is, much less that she was ever involved with Pitt. And, yes, Mr. & Mrs. Smith is definitely one of those fun, watch more than once type movies. It also has some great quotable lines that are less about the writing and more about the Pitt/Jolie delivery…hmmm- think I’ll dig out that DVD and have a nice movie night with my guy!
I know I’ll probably get yelled at but nothing Brad Pitt can do or say to make his cheating excusable. I always thought he could better then Aniston but I just don’t get it why people don’t get out of a bad relationship because they are unhappy but rather they lead on their better halves until someone better comes along and they fall in love again,which is unforgivable for me. If you are not happy just get the hell out but they act like cowards and let the 3rd person take the blame and losses any sympathy IMO.
I also don’t understand how can a woman trust a guy to not cheat on her when he cheated on his wife with her. My husband asked me out for the 2st time when he was already in a relationship and I refused point blank by saying I don’t go out with other people’s BF. He broke up with his ex on his own because that relationship wasn’t working out for him but I didn’t participate in that breakup. He needed to that on his own and for the right reasons that he wasn’t happy any longer and not for me. I still give him a hard time for just asking me out when he wasn’t single, for this he have to propose me twice to get an yes. So I just don’t understand women who find this kind of behavior acceptable or men who leave some1 for another woman. If he cheated on her, he’ll cheat on you too and if you aren’t happy get out but please don’t be a douche bag and cheat and then make it out to be other’s person’s mistake.
How do you know it didn’t happen this way with Brad and Angelina. Your husband was in a relationship, met you broke up with his girlfriend, that’s exactly how it could have gone down with BP, unhappy with JA met AJ and left JA, you don’t know for sure. You’re coming across as a hypocrite cause whether you like it or not you did cause your husband to break up with his girlfriend.
No I didn’t cause my husband to break up because of me. We have common friends and went out on a date for the 1 st time 6 months after his break up. As I said I don’t entertain taken men.
You are right though that I don’t know the exact circumstances under which the whole triangle of doom was formed. i know what was reported by media and my opinion are based on IF HE CHEATED ON ANISTON WITH JOLIE.
Right, so your husband asked you to cheat with him on his girlfriend, BP, JA, CC, AJ and all the crew on the film confirm that he didn’t cheat and BP’s the coward, wow you got a real keeper there better hope he doesn’t test out the waters with someone while still attached to you. I hope you didn’t talk to him as a friend in those six months or you’re exactly the same as the people you think are cowards.
You are assuming he cheated despite all the people involved Brad,AJ and Jen saying he didnt.Do you believe Theroux cheated with Jen on Heidi?
Yes I do think Theroux cheated on Heidi and Jen is a big ass fool and not any better then Angelina. I actually think she is a bit pathetic and cashed too much on being a victim but I still can’t excuse what went down b/w Brad and Jolie. I guess they all deserve each other and i don’t know why on earth I decided to comment on this thread.
I think what Jennifer and Justin did was a lot worse than just ‘cheating’. Like I think that we are all human, we all make mistakes, and cheating is one of those mistakes. I’m more interested in what you do after what’s already been done.
Jennifer and Justin didn’t just have a one-time fling (I believe them when they say it wasn’t on the set)—- Justin deciding that he didn’t want to run two women, Jennifer deciding that she didn’t want to be the other woman (she met him years ago via Stiller)—they were sneaking around, going on public dates, award shows, while Justin was still going to premieres and vacationing with Heidi, as his girlfriend. And was telling Heidi and her mom that they were just friends and coworkers.
Whatever happened between Brad and Angelina on the set of MAMS–whether they became friends, and then at the end of the shoot decided that they were more than that (which is what they said), or if something else happened— they were not sneaking around. When Jennifer and Brad announced their separation, Angelina hadn’t even been in the country–she went to London immediately after they wrapped up for a few months. When they did the reshoots, Angelina went to Kenya (she filmed this documentary with a bunch of celebs)–and didn’t come back until they had to do that photoshoot…..so it’s not like she and Brad were sneaking around, two days after he and Jennifer separated….or before.
But it was proven Brad and Angelina didn’t cheat, so none of what you said is relevant. The ONLY cheater out of the 3 is Aniston. You say you don’t know what happened, then go on to speak as if you KNOW FOR SURE what happened. How would you like it if someone did that to you? There is NOTHING to excuse. NOTHING went down between Brad and Jolie. So why are you attacking them? Maybe nothing can excuse you smearing 2 innocent people?
You keep saying it was proven, were you there? Did you have a ring side seat? No? Then knock it off already, jeez your crazy’s showing..
Blue Marie, Sal has a special time machine mini-drone that went back in time and recorded EVERYTHING. WITNESS!!!!!
While there isn’t concrete proof that Brad didn’t cheat, there’s some pretty convincing evidence in my opinion.
Remember, it was Brad who went to his then wife and told her about his feelings for Angie. This is not the behavior of a cheater. Cheaters just go out and cheat. They don’t go to their wives and reveal complicated feelings they’re harboring for another woman. Brad was honest and straightforward with Aniston and her response was for him to just go and get it out of his system; in other words to have an affair with Angie and then come back to her. So Aniston is actually encouraging Brad TO CHEAT!! Brad said no. He didn’t want to do that and I don’t blame him because then Aniston really would have cause for the “victim” label she’s championed for nearly a decade. And who knows, maybe Brad knew that; knew that she could use that against him, so he was wise to take the appropriate course of action.
I personally believe Brad should feel good about how he left that marriage. He was honest with Aniston from the beginning. Not many men are.
@TC
Great comment.
I have a second cousin (who’s in his forties) who is a cheater. Let me tell you how 99% of cheaters cheat. My cousin married a woman who did EVERYTHING she could to help him out, like a good, supportive partner. She’s the one who cleaned him up, helped him get a job—did what she could do to help. They were married for ten years, had kids, and he had a girlfriend for 8/10 years. It was so bad/serious, that the girlfriend moved up the street from them (about two years into their affair), so that when he told his wife that he was going to the sports bar or wherever, he would go to the girlfriend’s house.
When his wife kicked him out (and she did), he immediately proposed to the girlfriend, and got himself a new piece like THAT! Let me tell you how bad it was—during the summer, my family has bbqs in my grandma’s backyard–just a family party. Well, he kept bringing this woman to the bbqs. So we all assumed it was the new fiancee. WRONG. We went to the wedding (probably about two months after his divorce was final), saw the bride, and went ‘WHO IS THAT!’. He’d been bringing some sidepiece to all of our family gatherings.
And what’s really funny is that now she knows what it feels like. My cousin was getting ready to go out (to the clubs, bars, etc) and his wife asked him why he always wanted to go out, saying he needed to spend time with his family. My cousin turned to her and said ‘You weren’t saying that when I was with my first wife.’….I died laughing.
Anyway–I feel like Brad has learned from his past mistakes in relationships, and Jennifer hasn’t. Like the ‘evidence’ is circumstantial–but come on. She praised Brad to the high heavens, and said that their split was mutual and amicable, and that nothing or NOBODY went between them in their decision to split. And she said this nearly three years after their separation–so it wasn’t something that she said when the pain was still fresh (which I think a divorce, no matter how amicable it is, is still hard, and I don’t think it’s wrong for Jennifer to have felt sad, confused, hurt, etc that her relationship was over), something to try and protect Brad, somehow.
It was THREE YEARS later. And it’s the reason I don’t like her (beyond her crappy acting skills, but if she could act, I’d watch her movies). Because it’s not like she’s trashing Angelina, and saying zip about Brad–she’s brought them both into it, by commenting on both. She’s saying that Brad’s behavior was all fine, dandy, and respectable, but Angelina’s wasn’t. Which makes no sense to me.
She didn’t need to play nice with Brad, or say anything beyond ‘We’re divorced, and I’m happy right now’—but she went in and said that she was so proud of him. Of his accomplishments with Angelina. Of his children, with Angelina. So it’s confusing to me, that Brad’s okay, but Angelina isn’t. And that’s ultimately the reason, beyond what you said in your post, why I don’t think they cheated (although if they did, I think that it was handled in a very respectful way–no sneaking around, etc).
Anyways, I’m rambling….as always.
Wow Virgilia, what an unfortunate family situation to have to witness. I can honestly say that that would affect me and the way I relate to other people if I had to deal with cheaters on that level in my family. But you sound incredibly grounded for someone who’s had to deal with this in your family, so kudos to you.
My dad cheated and helped his male friends to cheat as well. He would go pick up a buddy’s sidepiece and stash her in a nearby hotel for him. Really despicable behavior in my opinion. But the thing is, it happened when I was very young and I didn’t find out about any of it until decades later, after the fact, when I became an adult. But even learning about it all those years later can still mess you up a bit. I’m sure it’s left its residual effects on me.
But this just proves my point that cheaters just go out and cheat. They don’t inform their wives that there’s something happening, like Brad did with Aniston. Brad’s actions do not fit the profile of a cheater. He was honest and straightforward with Aniston and for her to encourage him to get it out of his system by cheating with Angie and then coming back to her is just horrible advice in my opinion that can only lead to more problems for the both of them. It also tells me more than I need to know about Aniston in her relationship with Brad.
This story sounds totally fabricated, but thinking about the scenario that is presented…yes, it would sting. And for all those saying their marriage was all but over — no one REALLY knows what happened. No matter how much people claim they know the facts about these relationships — they don’t. Jennifer is the perceived victim but she is the one being vilified. Jolie knew after she snagged Brad that she had to turn around her seedy image and amazingly, she has. And again…the man (Brad) comes out of it clean as whistle. Cue women to turn this all on the 2 women involved & commence tearing them apart. Madness…
Oh…I thought M&M Smith was a crap movie. I was working in the entertainment industry at that time & you should have heard the rumors from the set.
ROFLMAO..I dont think Angie gave a damn about her image when she got with brad. this was a woman who would fugg her husband in the limo on the way to awards shows, rofl when did she ever give a damn about perception of her. She was too batshit to worry about that stuff.
and Jenn wasnt villied, Angie to this day is still being called a homewrecker..but how can you wreck what was non existant?
All I know is, Brad and Jen separated in Jan and by March he was with angie( at least publicly, if not sooner)
But you are right, we dont know exactly the state of their marriage but again, both had been giving little signals before the split that all was not perfect in the land of Anniston Pitt..
Turn around her seedy image? For the record Angelina joined UN in 2002 way before she met Brad. She also adopted Maddox around that time as well. Angelina didn’t have to change her image at all – she just saw the world and it’s suffering and grew up.
This is what I dislike about Jennifer fans – just because you nor your idol dont do humanitarian work you dare to critize and attack Angelina who genuinely does.
You just cannot handle that Angelina is got hours, most powerful woman in Hollywood, has an amazing life with her partner and 6 children, has genuine (not show business like someone else we know) long term friends both male and female, is universally admired,praised and awarded for her humanitarian work, millions of women look up to her and actually like her.
Angie started changing her life once she adopted Maddox. Being a mother really changed things for her. If I am remembering correctly, that is when her marriage to Billy Bob went down hill. She was growing up, enjoying her son, wanting a family, and he really didn’t want any part of that.
She has done some good things, but I still don’t like her. I don’t like JA either.
Exactly Cecilia -we should have heard rumours from the set, so why didn’t we? Unless there was nothing to tell, I would imagine that not everyone on set could be kept quite when the gossip world wanted to know what was up.
I thought I remembered that there were rumors from the set. Isn’t that how the whole Brad and Angie are having an affair got started, or is my brain just fuzzy?
There were tons of rumors from the set and even tabloid covers about their rumored affair. I remember not believing it at the time because I mistakenly thought he was a better guy than that.
There were definitely rumors from set. Some were documented in the bloids & others floated around the industry & had everyone talking.
There were no on-set rumors UNTIL Brad announced his split from Aniston in January 2005. This was the tabloids attempt to try and connect the dots on his separation and start some press-worthy gossip on a major A-list star for the sake of newsstand sales. It’s a classic tabloid strategy — build a narrative and publish the rumor now; find the truth later. Can’t blame them though, it’s still selling nearly 10 years later.
However, Angie had newly adopted son Maddox on the MAMS set with her during filming and was evolving into her new role as mom, so its highly unlikely there was anything going on.
Meant to say: There were no on-set rumors at all. It was the tabloids that started to manufacture the rumors after Brad’s separation announcement.
There WERE rumors of Brad and Angelina on the set of MAMS—it was on US Weekly and Star magazine’s covers. I’m guessing those were the only ones, because according to the source I have (I’ll put the link down below)—those covers came out on May 3rd, 2004, and Brad and Jennifer went to the ‘Troy’ premiere in Cannes on the 10th of the same year. So I’m guessing they had those covers, then the rumors stopped and then they started up again after Brad and Jennifer separated.
I wouldn’t have been surprised, because ever since Angelina split up from Billy Bob, she’s always had rumors about her and her costars hooking up—especially if she gets along with them. I saw this interview when she was doing ‘Taking Lives’ with Ethan Hawke and Oliver Martinez. She, them, and Maddox went to a baseball game, after filming. During the game, she stood next to both of them, separately, and the paps took pictures of them, and said that she was sleeping with both of them. Same with ‘Alexander’—except Colin Farrel made it clear, in an interview, that he wanted to date her/jump her bones, but she didn’t see him like that.
The closest thing I’ve ever seen that Brad and Angelina were behaving inappropriately on the set, were those pictures in Italy–but those pictures were on the set i.e they were filming, and you could see the crew in the shots (at least what I saw)–they were holding hands. I also saw another picture of them (when they weren’t filming, with her in the same red dress) sitting either on some steps or in front of a fountain and they were leaning in and talking to each other.
http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,1066184,00.html
Virgilia, I guess my point was that these rumors didn’t originate from anyone on-set (meaning other MAMS cast or crew members) which would’ve garnered much more credibility in my opinion. They were manufactured by the tabloids, which has its own agenda and likes to run fast and loose with the truth. The link you supplied is EW, but they picked up the on-set rumor stories from STAR Magazine, which is most definitely a tabloid. And as you so astutely stated, the tabloid press had always routinely accused Angie of sleeping with all her male co-stars. It was their “go-to” story for this woman, so I’m not buying it.
Cecila who said. jennifer is the perceived victim but she is the one being vilified. Jolie knew after she snagged Brad that she had to turn around her seedy image and amazingly, she has. ARE you kidding Me Jennifer was vilified . Angie has been hated on for years people wishing her death, rape for her kids calling her a homewrecker a slut a whore and you say jennifer was being vilified I don’t think you live in this world. You need to wake up from your sleep if you think jolie turned her seedy image for the sake of being liked.
People only began turning on Jen after seeing her for who she truly is a HYPOCRITE and everyone is tired of her pity Me antics. And the fact that she also got with Justin while he was still with his GF of 14 years!!!
You also said…
Oh…I thought M&M Smith was a crap movie. I was working in the entertainment industry at that time & you should have heard the rumors…. Hahahaaha who cares about the rumours they have made a family and are still happy and waxing stronger even when people like you have been wishing for them to split up! Oh you said they already did that they were just together for the sake of the kids. I wonder how you know that maybe you sleep under their bed.
Cecila I get it you don’t like Angie! But your dislike for her and Brad has gotten the better of you. And I feel you should be more than that. And oh end of rant!!!
It is amazing how some of these people are rewriting history. As if Angie has not been ragged on for years.. YEARS.. Jennifer has gotten some snide comment about her in the last few years. You would think she was being stoned the way her fans are whinying.. they need to travel back in time as see what was and is said about Angie.. boo hoo.
lollol Its funny how the Anistonloons like Cecilia aka Spinner aka Maggie all state they ‘worked in the industry and heard rumours’, each and every one of them have used that line. Seriously, what *are* the odds of THAT happening? All 3?
You don’t fool anyone cecilia/Maggie, in fact I think you just slipped up and exposed yourself.
Angelina was the REAL victim, while Aniston was merely the ‘perceived’ victim by the tabloids. Oh, and Angelina had no seedy behaviour to ‘turn around’, so keep making up your hateful lies.
We know there were no rumours from the set, because those who *ACTUALLY* worked on set all came out and said it was all bs, the set was always crowded so nothing could have happened anyway.
Give it up Cecilia. Worry about your idol finding a way to recover from her many years of her own seedy and filthy immoral behaviour.
PS I used Anistonloonie because Kaiser still uses Brangeloonie, as she did in the article, and Kaiser has also said Jen loonie or Aniston loonie before, so before a certain self-righteous and sanctimonious person cough Virgiliacoughcough obnoxiously attacks me for it, since its ok for Kaiser, the author on the site, to use it, others can too. Ok? Thank you.
Oh. My. God.
I could stock my practice with some of the people on this site.
Sometimes I like to pop into the Triangle threads just to observe the crazy and remind myself why I avoid these posts, and then promptly leave before it gets any worse.
Paranormalgirl and TheOriginalKitten: This thread was already cracking me up, but your comments have really made the whole thing! I like Brad and Angelina… but not THAT much 🙂
I know. What was I thinking even coming in here? I don’t actually care about the lives of any of these people. LOL
These threads are full of crazy, I have no idea why I keep reading and commenting.
I LIVE for these JA/BP/AJ threads. I would be frightened if I knew some of these people that comment but thankfully I can chuckle at with crazies from afar
It is good for a chuckle, though…..but then I just find myself shaking my head in disbelief at the craziness that goes on. Some people are insanely, and I use the word loosely, invested. 🙂
I usually come in quietly, read the comments, (marvel at some) and leave just as quietly. It’s safer that way.
I hope that Sal is actually multiple posters- it would make me feel safer In the world. There can’t be more than one of these, right?
If this is true, it was probably on tv and the kids were randomly watching it.
As a rapid gossiper for 100 years, it’s silly to believe the hype that their marriage was already over and nothing happened til after. I like both Jen and Angie but let’s be real.
Jen had 2 miscarriages causing her and pitt to fall apart. Him and Angie most definitely cheated emotionally and physically based on all confirmations from folks on set. Then the rumors started that he left Jen for Angie because Jen wouldn’t give him a baby. Angie and Brad then instantly posed on W with 100s of babies/children which Jen called. “Having a sensitivity chip missing” and you know what? I agree- that was a low class move.
It’s so amazing to me how easily celebs can rewrite history, our gossip memories are short and we forget.
I know Jennifer fans likes to use fiction about how Jennifer has miscarriages. But come on – Jennifer herself said that she has never been pregnant nor had any miscarriages. Plus a woman who has had miscarriages would never do a commercial with fake pregnancy belly and mock those pregnancy rumours.
Geez, Hyena, talk about revisionist history! Wha??
It’s so amazing to me how easily celebs can rewrite history, our gossip memories are short and we forget.
Yep! I think you are the one rewriting history because even Jen herself confirmed that she was never pregnant not talk more of having a miscarriage or miscarriages. go back and check the gossip history Hyena.
Hyena,
Thank you for the revision. This is what also I remember but as you can see I’m being called out for suggesting that Brad cheated On Jenifer. The fact that he cheated on her because she can’t get pregnant makes it even more disgusting then it is and I don’t understand how can women support a man who cheated on his wife because she was having difficulties reproducing.
It seems to me Angelic 21 that you gullibly believe the first thing you are told. As others have said, there were NO miscarriages, Aniston herself debunked this tabloid lie, herself. Brad DIDN’T, as well all (breathing thinking humans) know now cheat on Aniston. And he certainly didn’t leave her. She left him and chose her career OVER *reproducing*. It was HER REFUSAL to reproduce with her husband, that led to their marriage demise. If Aniston had even bothered to TRY to reproduce, instead of turning her back on her marriage and vows to Brad, who knows? They may still be married now. I wonder if she regrets her choice now?
Um, Hyena? Or whoever you are,
Aniston did NOT have any miscarriages! She HERSELF came out and denied this, after some Anistonloons planted that in the tabloids to take the heat off of her for splitting up with Brad over not wanting children. Aniston DENIED this years ago, please do catch up. There……were……NO miscarriages.
Secondly, please stop lying. We know that there were NO rumours coming from the set, on the *CONTRARY*. Those who worked on the set said the set was always crowded so there was no way they could, and they said the rumours in the tabloids were bs. Their co-stars and director all said this. There were no rumours from set.
Brad and Angelina were proven not to have cheated, so I think you need to accept that you were duped into believing a lie about 2 innocent people.
BTW, Brad and Angelina did a PROMO shoot, for WORK, when they posed. The PRODUCER AND DIRECTORS told them to; it was for WORK? Do you understand what promo shoots are? research it if not.
How about you feel sorry for Heidi Bivens who had to see photos of her partner for 14 years, with whom she shared a life and a home together, sliming all over Aniston while he and Heidi were still a couple? Not to mention the rumours on the set of Wanderlust where Aniston had a physical affair with HEIDI’S MAN. Talk about a sensitivity chip missing!!! Aniston is the only one who has a sensitivity chip missing – she has a dozen of them missing. Starting from when she did that horrible VF affair where she lied her arse off for attention, threw Brad under the bus, and subsequently had photos of her dry-humping Vince Vaughn on a public balcony, before her marriage was over. And then, rubbing it in Heidi’s face that she was having an affair with her man? Its a laugh, because Aniston is the ONLY one who has *consistently* shown she has more than ‘one’ sensitivity chip missing……!
why are you so emotionally invested in these people like they are your besties? They are just celebrities. Please explain.
Um, what? I’m no more emotionally invested than those on here that accuse Angelina of having a seedy life etc, but I notice you don’t ask the others that same question. So I’ll give your agenda-laden question with the respect it deserves…….
Sal, why would Aniston want to/have to confirm something as personal as miscarriages to the public?
Aniston herself has said she has never been pregnant.
Good gawd if Aniston had miscarriages while married to Pitt (who knows what happened before that) she would have saved the material in a mason jar to parade around Oprah’s stage on a wagon like Oprah did her 50 pounds of fat.
Keep it Klassy
If the reminders were few and far between, it is possible to still carry the wound.
However, this isn’t the case with this triangle. It’s been relentlessly public and in her face for the past decade. The hurt may still be there, but she should be immune to the reminders by now.
I believe their marriage was already over when Brad met Angelina, he kind of said so in recent interviews. As for Jennifer.. she needs to come out of it already! It’s been 10 years for God’s sake!
Jen IS most likely over it. The tabloids can’t let it go because it has been & still is a HUGE money maker for them. Judging from the amount of comments on threads like these, the public isn’t over it either. The tabs are just giving the masses what they want.
You mean that YOU’RE clearly not over it Cecila? Lets face it, you don’t try to hide it, do you?
Eh, it doesn’t help when she has a ‘friend’ who has been calling her ex’s partner a ‘homewrecking c*nt’ (but never Brad), doesn’t help when she clearly talks to her costars about her being Brad’s ex wife (Charlie Day), doesn’t help when she tells a reporter that she keeps old voicemail messages of ‘her husband’ (verbatim, not EX husband, but ‘my husband’), doesn’t help that she made excuses/defended Brad in the aftermath of the divorce (Vanity Fair interview), and it doesn’t help that she trashed Angelina, while praising Brad to the high heavens IN THE SAME INTERVIEW (Vogue), all the ‘Jennifer: Five Years after Brad (how looking good is the best revenge)…..plus every once in a while she’ll have an interview, where she ‘rose from the ashes’ about 6,7 years ago i.e. right when she and Brad split up.
For what it’s worth–personally, I think she’s over it, but her ego isn’t going to recover for quite some time…as evidenced by the above.
Man, they are off the charts smokin’ HOT in those photos! I haven’t seen the movie, but I might have to now.
As for Jen, don’t you think she would be used to seeing them together by now? They (or their kids) are in the news almost every day.
Seems I’m just not buying anything this morning…
You should see it. Their chemistry was off the charts. You can only imagine what it was like once they gave in to it. 🙂
Someone who worked on MAMS commented to one of the tabloids that Brad and Angie had “scarily good chemistry” while the movie was being filmed. I always wondered if he meant their onscreen chemistry or offscreen.
If she was upset it was probably because the kids didn’t know who she was and/or that she was ever married to Pitt- she got mad at Charlie Day for just that. Over TEN YEARS LATER, there is still no proof that Brad & Angie cheated. There is, however, plenty of proof that Justin and Jen cheated on Heidi. If Jen is that immature/neurotic to care after all this time (she sure didn’t seem to care when she said she liked it when Pitt was gone for months at a time or when she humping Vince Vaughn), then Justin should take a cue from all those other guys and run.
I totally know I’m going to get slammed, but I think you have to be freakin naïve to think there was no cheating going on during that filming! There may not be any proof, but I find it extremely hard to believe there was nothing going on. That does not mean I give a stamp of approval to JA’s cheating. There seems to be plenty of proof for what she has been up to.
You may get slammed, but not by me. I’m not that naïve either. When two adults fall in love anything can happen. It doesn’t concern me so I really don’t care who did or didn’t do what with whom.
I think even if she has 100% moved on, which I believe she has, that film would totally still touch a nerve. I’ve been cheated on and I’m so thankful it wasn’t captured forever on film.
I can understand where she is coming from.
I’ve seen the movie once and will never watch it again because I refuse to support adultery in any shape or form.
I was cheated on once and nothing breaks a persons heart more than deception by someone you love and trust.
Hmmm, I hope you had never ever watched a Tom Hanks movie, or a Paul Newman movie. Both have been known to cheat on their first wives with their second wives, Rita Wilson and Joanne Woodward, since you absolutely “refuse to support adultery in any shape or form.” Have you checked all the backgrounds of Hollywood producers, directors, actors, actresses, etc etc because a lot of them have committed adultery.
Have seen a few Tom Hanks movies, but otherwise don’t like or watch old movies. Haven’t seen Newman in anything.
Besides, do you always take everything so literally?
But it was proven that they didn’t cheat. So its ok for you to watch it again. Stop believing the tabloids. I also hope you apply the same rationale to Aniston’s movies ie Wanderlust where she cheated with a very taken Justin Theroux.
Proven by who exactly ?
Aniston herself – her own words, her best friends, Director, cast and crew, and Aniston’s own actions in doing that same behaviour to another woman. Just for starters…..
Sal, come on, now — that’s no “proof”. Of course Aniston is going to say there was no cheating; she doesn’t want to look like the woman who got cheated on. Nobody knows for sure what happened when. And at this point, all these years layer, what difference does it make?
Janet, you’re kidding! Surely? Aniston has staked her career on being seen as the woman who got cheated on, she LOVES it and nurtures it – where have you been?
Dude, nobody is going to purposely watch Wanderlust 😉
Sal, she’s staked her career on being the woman who got dumped, not cheated on. There’s a big difference.
Absolutely loved MAMS! Such an enjoyable movie and Brad and Angie are perfect together in it. I’ll have to pull out the DVD this weekend and enjoy it all over again. Thanks Kaiser for sparking the idea.
Lol. So many emotions about something that happened so long ago to people who don’t even know I exist… 😀
Aaaanyhoo… I couldn’t care one bit about this mess.
I’d believe this. Aniston is certainly this selfish and histrionic that she’d do this, and on purpose.
Lmao! Did someone squash the other story?
(oh boy, who goes)
Let me start out by saying this–when I first started reading gossip, I thought all the talk about Jennifer not being over it, was full of crap. Didn’t believe it. She had clearly moved on with her life, and so had they. But come on–anyone who reads any of her interviews, especially during the 2005-08 era knows that something’s up.
I think that Jennifer and Brad were a horrible fit for each other (I’ve never met anyone who talks about their marriage like that to reporters–I don’t understand how anyone thought they were going to last–merger? really?), and so I think that Jennifer is over Brad, but not over her ego.
Sidenote–She clearly identifies very strongly STILL with being Brad’s ex wife–remember Charlie Day’s interview, when he said that she asked him if he knew that she was married to Brad, and was shocked that he had no clue. They’d been divorced for nearly six years at that point–why would she be bringing up exes to begin with?
But I do think that she hates (or ‘strongly dislikes’) Angelina–which I don’t understand. Because Brad is the one that hurt her, not Angelina. Read her Vanity Fair interview. Her friends were all aghast at how disrespectful Brad was to Jennifer, when he did that ‘Domestic Bliss’ photoshoot–but Jennifer was saying to the reporter how she knows Brad, how he would say that’s art, and how he would never, ever mean to hurt her. Read her Vogue interview–the interviewer asked her about Brad and her divorce.
She said that she and Brad basically sat down and talked about EVERYTHING. She said that they were very respectful of each other, that the split was handled as best as it could be, it wasn’t that bad, and there was no one in between them (saying that Angelina wasn’t in Brad’s ear)—that THEY decided everything together as a couple. She also said that she was proud of him in his film and humanitarian work, and said she congratulated him on his kids (with Angelina).
But here’s the thing–the interviewer asked her about AJ. This is when I began to buy into Jennifer not being over ‘it’ fully–because come on. She’s met AJ ONCE. But she has enough issues with Angelina to tell the reporter to stop recording so she could tell the reporter, off the record, what she thought of Angelina, to bring up a cartoon about her shooting Angelina, and to call Angelina ‘uncool’ for saying that she liked going to work with Brad.
My question is this–how is it that she has NO problems with Brad (and it’s not like she trashed Angelina and said nothing about Brad, like a lot of exes would do)–she’s said to the world that she is proud of the man that he has become (with Angelina), but with Angelina, there’s a problem.
But there’s not a problem with Brad–especially since she said before that there weren’t any third parties in their split.
So I think that Jennifer hates Angelina’s guts–which is why she took those crap shots at Angelina in that interview (saying that Angelina was talking about specific timelines in the start of their relationship, when she wasn’t), and why she is still besties with Chelsea Handler—who’s been calling AJ anything but a child of God–but not Brad.
“But I do think that she hates (or ‘strongly dislikes’) Angelina–which I don’t understand. Because Brad is the one that hurt her, not Angelina.”
As a wife who has been cheated on, I can tell you that all the hate is directed at the other woman. All the hurt. My husband and I stayed together, but the pride still hurts, the hurt is still there nearly 25 years later, and I still hate the hell out of the other woman, no matter how hard I have tried to get over it.
Okay, but my point is that she went out of her way to praise Brad. When asked about him, all she had to say was that they still talked sometimes, and that she had no ill will towards him–something generic like that. But she didn’t do that. She said that she was PROUD of the man that he was, of his work, and his kids—said that their divorce had been handled so respectfully, and that there had been nothing and no one that influenced their decision, as a couple to end their marriage. That’s what SHE said.
So I don’t understand how she can have all this animosity towards Angelina (as evidenced by C.Handler, most recently), but be proud and loving towards Brad–publicly.
And as the daughter of a woman who has been cheated on more than a few times (my mom, that is) I find it incredibly sad that you hate the woman, but not your husband. I don’t understand that. I get that ‘the other woman’ should have some of the blame and hurt–but ultimately it’s the person that was in the relationship who bears MOST of the blame. If you’ve forgiven your husband, then you should forgive the woman. Unless he said that she hog tied him and forced him to have sex with her, I don’t understand how you can still hate the woman, or why most of your hate would go to the woman. Your husband is the one who made the choice. No one held a gun to his head. If my husband cheated on me, I would blame HIM, not the mistress.
And I’ve seen a lot of cheating in my family—a lot of bitterness over it. Usually they don’t praise the person who cheated on them to the high heavens to FAMILY MEMBERS, let alone the media, but then still bash the ‘other woman’…..they usually bash the ‘other woman’ and don’t say jackshit about the dude/woman who actually cheated on them.
Because men can be pigs, but women are supposed to know better. Husbands couldn’t cheat if there weren’t willing partners.
“But I do think that she hates (or ‘strongly dislikes’) Angelina–which I don’t understand. Because Brad is the one that hurt her, not Angelina.”
That’s just typical female psychology. The further distanced the blame is from the blamer than the less the blamer bears responsibility for her own failed marriage. See, there has to be some outside force that caused the failure.
Not every woman does that though. My mom has been cheated on, as have the majority of my aunts (which is why they were all single mothers at one point in their lives), and they never blamed the woman–they blamed the man. I’m not saying don’t be mad at the other woman–but ultimately it’s the person in the relationship.
I just find it strange, weird, and unusual, that Jennifer would go out of her way to praise Brad in a public interview–instead of giving a generic ‘I hope he’s happy’ answer–and make it a point to say that nothing and nobody went between their decision, as a couple, to separate–but there’s an issue with Angelina. Doesn’t compute with me.
IDK. If I were Aniston I don’t think I’d like walking in on that up on someone’s TV screen either. I wouldn’t leave in a huff, but I’d definitely give it an ‘ugh’ and an eye roll.
1~ Teenagers were watching MAMS? Doubt it. That’s just not how teenagers hang. Also they would have no interest in the sex lives or the hairdos of the middle-aged.
2~ Who was the source for the story? Did the teenagers called it in to tabs or their embarrassed parents?
3~ What’s the benefit? Jen gets some more sympathy and Brad gets a slag during award season. Mmm.
Oh, I don’t know, I can see teenage boys watching it for the action with all the guns and stuff. It is the type of movie boys like.
Uh, no. Sorry. Nothing against the movie, but this is geriatric territory for tennage boys.
I actually remember when MAMS came out, I was 8 or 9, I think. I remember wanting to watch it so badly–I was really jealous that my aunt let my two cousins watch it. But I just remember it being a thing that EVERYONE was talking about (because I live in a tiny town where nothing happens), I didn’t know why it was a thing, but I just knew about it–years before I even watched the movie. I also remember thinking Angelina was so beautiful……
I have a seven year old and she would want nothing to do with any such thing. She watches Disney and Nickelodean and doesn’t look at movie stars and think “she’s beautiful” and I’m glad. I want her to be a kid and make rainbow loom bracelets and snowmen for a few more years.
Um, there’s nothing wrong with me thinking that a woman on a dvd cover is beautiful—I had no clue what the movie was about, I had just seen the cover, and my cousins told me what it was about….I already liked action films at that point.
This sums up my thoughts on that matter, quite clearly—
http://archiveofourown.org/works/1133252
http://archiveofourown.org/works/1132816
@Virgilia Coriolanus: You are good, thanks for posting this, it is interesting.
Very interesting indeed. I knew the JustJen timeline of them getting together was sketchy. But when Penelope Spheeris stated that Aniston was on the “Five” set with Justin introducing him as her “boyfriend,” that’s when the JustJen lie was exposed for me. “Five premiered in April 2011, which means they were filming months before then.
Regarding Aniston going after Angie….I just think women have a tendency to go after each other as opposed to the man. I don’t know why. But that just seems to be the way it is and the way it’s always been.
Thanks for posting this.
Very interesting. There are some things that I didn’t know about that after reading it, it gives me some realizations.
Good read, indeed.
My thanks too VC.
No respect here for L. Bennetts’ work. Does she still write? Not interested enough to look.
Can the tabloids give it a rest already?
I doubt the story’s truth, but I can see where that would freak her out. That’s not a movie she is ever going to watch, lol.
i’m shocked when people say that can’t see the chemistry between Brad and AJ. They are burning up the screen!
They are gorgeous in that movie. They look like completely different people now.
I know, right??
I think they look pretty much the same considering it’s been 10 years, i.e. still drop dead gorgeous especially on the red carpet when they purposely go glam…that pic of them at cannes..coming down the steps at the Tree of Life premiere just 2 yrs ago it was Mr and Mrs Smith come to life…
http://m.zimbio.com/pictures/YU1_1tj_NDJ/Premiere+Tree+Life+Palais+des+Festivals/spq-b8X3Lv2/Angelina+Jolie
….but off camera they seem fairly low maintenance though still uncommonally pretty, though they’ll have different haircuts depending on what movie they’re filming.
Aniston however has a completely diff face than on that friends TV show. She went from baby Streisand to some generic less attractive Laura Kinney look. But no one ever calls her out. I guess it’s still that pity factor weighing in. They (her enablers) want her to be pretty so bad..they don’t care what lengths she had to go to.lolol
I thought Jennifer was a lot more unique, prettier, and much more interesting looking before she had 4 nose jobs and destroyed her hair. Darker hair with blue eyes–love it. I wish she hadn’t caved into whatever pressure she felt to change it. Her orig. nose fit her face a lot better.
I’m no Jennifer Anniston fan, but I must admit, if it had been me, I would have flipped out or had a similar reaction. I guess its just my personality, but there would be no expiration date on seeing my (ex)husband whom I had really loved, frolicking with the other woman on screen. Ten years or twenty years, that would be something I would never want to see. I don’t know if this story is true, but if it really happened at all, I can definitely see her reacting like that. After awhile it becomes more of a pride thing. I can see her not wanting to see that because it hurts her pride.
If this is true-and it probably isn’t-she should have kept it together for her boy toy, Justin. Given his pseudo career, he has to feel insecure about Brad. If she wants to move on and get remarried, she really needs to MOVE ON.
I still hate a girl that slept with my boyfriend in high school even though I’m happily married today. It has nothing to do with whether I’ve moved on. It’s because she was a skanky ho who did it for no other reason but to say she did and rub my face in it. Nothing wrong with hating someone who did something low down like that. I’m not ashamed to say it.
So do you call your boyfriend a skanky ho too? I don’t understand how you can put all the blame on the other woman/man. Ultimately your partner has the choice. I’m sure that he knew what kind of a person he was getting in the sack with—shouldn’t that say something to you, that he chose that kind of a person to cheat on you with?
I’m not saying don’t be mad at the person, but person who ultimately did the ‘low down’, was the person you were in a relationship with.
No, I don’t call him a skanky ho, I called him a piece of garbage. From what I heard he’s a serial cheater. I’m sure Heidi will carry a grudge or hate Aniston for a long time to come if she was still in love with Justin. As for my situation, they were both nasty; she was someone I thought was a “friend” and knew he was taken. But I guess if she thought our relationship was on the rocks it made it okay, right? But anyway, I hated them both equally. I was trying to make a point but of course each and every word has to be dissected since it’s about “The Triangle.” Silly me.
My response to your post had nothing to do with the Triangle—that’s how I feel, personally.
People wonder why many fans of the Jolie Pitts really loathe Aniston, it’s for THIS very reason – she’s given tacit approval for every scorned reject woman (including that pitbull boozey lush latenight tv cable host Chelsea TrashCandler and the people posting above) to smear Angelina Jolie’s character. That, to me is unconscionable. It, more than anything shows Aniston’s true colors and lack of character.
Notice I dont include Brad because hysterically and inexplicably he escapes their wrath. Aniston has lavished him with praise on occasion, saying she admires and is proud of him. Which wouldn’t actually be true if had cheated or even told a couple of lies, now would it? The facts are, all three parties say no one cheated and no one was unfaithful. Furthermore, Aniston said in her official statement on the matter it wasn’t the result of a third party.
Now you have these same women refusing to believe what Aniston herself says because they need to hate the beautiful woman Brad has made a life with, that badly.
Why this gets rehashed every time a tabloid decides to manufacture a lie, is baffling. It shows the neurosis that so many have in common with aniston.
She seems truly unstable. You hear/see it in her stuttering brain farrting nervous tic interviews. She never strikes me as being a truly happy person (not even with Brad) I think she is far from over it. I think she and her PR flack and best gay huvan, make it a point to pseudo stalk Brad and Angelina still. I think they still pull stunts like hiring handler to attack angelina, or following them to award shows they’re being honored at…it’s all to coattail. Even her sad little ensemble comedy aging sexpot roles these days seem only designed to undo the sad sack ‘homely’ reject pitiful loser image they’ve cultivate for a near decade.
The farther she got away from Brad’s dumping she’s resented being called a loser so she’s trying to play up the hotness (see annual mexican bikini tours as well). But she’s never forgotten or forgiven Brad for moving on with someone whose league she will never be in. That’s why though she and her PR flack come for angelina, and despite her so called admiration of Brad. ..it’s still about getting back at him personally thru aiming this kind of public dirt at the woman he loves. That is Aniston is a grudge holding sad lame….
Ask her mother.
+ 1,000,000
You couldn’t have said it better.
Take a bow – the best reply I have ever read on CB.
And for the record, Aniston did say she fights dirty in her Parade (Sep 2009) interview.
Great comment, Blanche, could not have said it better.
Way to keep it klassy Blanche/sal. Really all you loons on both sides, eg, Maggie and Cecilia, suck the fun out of making fun of Jennifer Aniston’s boringness. Virgilia: you’re obviously smart and not a bona fide loon, but in the words of William Burroughs: watch whose money you pick up.
@marina
Can you you imagine how Heidi Bivens feels about that skanky ho, Jennifer Aniston?! And to make matters worse, she was in a long term grownup relationship with Justin Theroux, unlike your high school one.
Aniston needs to stop tanning. Tanning makes young fresh look pretty but older skin turns leathery looking. Can’t she see this?
I agree. Not too mention being tan with flat long hair is totally 1999.
Agreed. She and most of Hollywood look so much nicer when they’re not orange-baked within an inch of their lives.
Some commenters have been talking timelines here… All I know is Shiloh – a PLANNED baby – was born may 2006 would have to have been conceived sept 2005, which was like 4 months after a planned co-adoption of Sahara. So in my head, 5 months after brad Pitt and aniston announced their separation two children were already in the mix – me thinks the timeline is not as clean.
Bivens and Theroux? Meh – not as well documented of a relship – so harder to gauge the seriousness of the relationship or what happened … Just my two cents
Angelina had already started the process of adopting Zahara, months before she got with Brad. You can’t just go into an adoption agency and say ‘I want a baby’—you have to file paperwork, meet with case workers, have homestudys–especially when the child you’re trying to adopt is from a diff. country than you, so who knows how long it took for her to get past the Ethiopian gov’t…..from what I’ve read in interviews, when she and Brad got together, she was at the tail end of the adoption process. He went with her and picked Zahara up, but he wasn’t the one who said ‘let’s adopt a baby’–it was Angelina. Angelina is the one who actually adopted her, and then in Nov/Dec. 2005, he adopted both kids. Personally, I probably wouldn’t have had a baby so soon after bringing one home, but it’s not my life…..
As for Justin and Heidi, Heidi released a statement when they broke up and said that they had been together for 14 years. When tabloids called Justin for a comment, his rep had no comment. Which I find odd, because there were tons of rumors going around that he and Jennifer cheated. And the fastest way to shut those rumors down, would be to simply say ‘Heidi and I were in an on/off relationship’ i.e. there is no cheating. But he chose not to make a statement, which tells me something.
Heidi released a statement? Some commenter up thread said she took the “dignified” approach and didn’t make any statements? Which is it?
As for the adoption of zahara – yes I see what you are saying. But you don’t think they discussed building a family before the adoption went final? I’m just saying that the relationship seemed to be very much in full swing given the speed in which everything happened post separation. I mean aniston and Pitt weren’t even officially divorced when all this happened. Let’s acknowledge that maybe, just maybe, there was some overlap…
Brad himself has said (paraphrasing) that when he moves forward, he does not look back. If he went on to have children and form a family (with AJ), he embraced it fully. she was adopting, he was in for it, he had made the resolution of being a parent to her children, a condition she had made to anyone seriously getting with her.
that is how serious was for him regardless of how some crazies say that she trapped him with a pregnancy. They have also said that he convinced her to try for a biological child, and as soon as the stopped using contraceptives, she was preggo, when they thought it would take a few months. I wish it had been like that for me, they were very lucky.
that is why I do not doubt them having twins in a natural way, they are fertile and would probably had a child every 1 or 2 years, but she had cesareans and they seem to like having balance between their adopted and biological children.
I know it is hard for women who are cheated on, but she kind of did the same with Bivens, so I have no sympathy for Aniston, also the JP family is full of cute children who seem to be having a great life and seem well behaved and happy. that is a great reason/ motivation to change one’s life as a weeded out couch potato. kudos to Brad.
I’m saying that Angelina was already in the process of adopting Zahara before she got with Brad–that’s what she said in her PEOPLE article, when Zahara came home, that the adoption had nothing to do with him i.e. she started it. They both said that they started dating during/after the reshoots for MAMS, so March 2005. And I don’t get why two people would have to discuss building a family when there’s already a child involved. It would be different if there wasn’t already a child in the family.
I’m not understanding how Zahara’s adoption five months after her parents got together says that there was overlap, especially when her mother’s signature was on the paperwork, not both of theirs.
Brad was forty two years old when they got together—his desire for a family was pretty well known in Hollywood. Plus he’s a grown up. I think two grown ups can decide if their relationship is going too fast or not. They’re not some young 20somethings who think they will be together 4evah—they both have past experiences in relationships, and know what works and what doesn’t. After a certain point, you shouldn’t have to beat around the bush if you don’t want to.
And it’s not like Brad separated from Jennifer and went straight to Angelina. Angelina was in London when they separated. She didn’t come back to LA until they had to do reshoots–in the meantime, Jennifer was seen on her new film set, and Brad was at his beach house, walking a lot w/his dogs.
Then they did the reshoots, and Angelina went to Kenya–she was shooting a documentary–and she and Brad weren’t publicly seen together, outside of work, until those beach photos–which were taken a month after JA filed for divorce. Then they weren’t seen together in a private setting until after MAMS came out—so it’s not like Brad and Jennifer broke up and then Brad ran straight into Angelina’s arms.
They kept their distance for a while, and didn’t talk about their relationship until Angelina said that she was pregnant.
From Brad’s 2011 Parade interview- oh so different from their People version of the story.
On adopting daughter Zahara [Brad and Angelina have three foreign-born adopted children: Maddox, 10, from Cambodia; Zahara, 6, from Ethiopia; and Pax, 7, from Vietnam]:
When Angie and I first met, we came together quite quickly and we decided we were adopting. Now the rules are that because we are not married, I can’t adopt. Angie adopts. We decided we were adopting a daughter. We were going to do it right out of the gate. We were not going to mess around. Angie said, ‘No shopping [for kids].’ I thought that was astute and beautifully put. It took the pressure off of adoption and brought a magic to it. We had set our parameters—we had room in our family if anyone needed a home. We got the call, and that’s our eldest daughter, Zahara.
@Pawl: If it was wrong of Brad to get together with Angelina in April 2005 – four months after official separation (Brad was in Hollywood first 3 months with multiple sightings and he even attended Jennifer’s birthday party).
Well then Jennifer started sleeping with Vince Vaughn in May 2005 herself and that was also before being officially/legally divorced.
I personally think Brad and Angelina fell in love on sets but they didn’t physically cheat. Jennifer also said that Brad was always honest with her and that he told her the second he started to feel something for Angelina.
Many people meet, fall in love, gets married and planning to have children within a few weeks of meeting. Some of them have also gone on to live happily for many many years.
PS: Heidi did take a dignified approach by releasing one single statement saying her and Justin have been together for 14 years but have officially broken up. She could easily have done Jennifer’s pr games and gone on to TV shows and given interviews after interviews about how her world has ended and give snide comments on Jennifer. But Heidi didn’t because she is not Jennifer and never wanted to be portrayed as a victim and get public support. This despite the fact that Jennifer and Justin did cheat for months before she found out.
Nothing Kiki posted contradicts People magazine. Once Brad and Angie were together as a committed couple – from their own interviews that sounds like it happened sometime in June 2005, just my take in it – Brad immediately got on board Angie’s already in place adoption plans for a child from Ethiopia. Naturally as a couple the conversation becomes “we.” Just because he wasn’t formally adopting Zahara at that time doesn’t mean that he and Angelina considered Brad any less a partner in the adoption.
Angelina has discussed that after they received Zahara’s adoption packet that the agency and orphanage informed her of the possibility that Zahara could be HIV positive and that they also told her she could back out of this adoption and they’d find another placement. Angelina said she did hesitant briefly because of her fears for Maddox and other reasons but that it was Brad who helped give her the strength to proceed with Zahara’s adoption and so they both felt they were parents from the get-go. Sharing that kind of crisis and decision making can create an incredible bond between partners.
Pawl, the planned aspect of Shiloh was explained by Angelina already. They planned to get pregnant but had been advised it would probably take about 6 months after she went off the pill. As it happens she got pregnant right away. That’s what she said was a surpirse – the timing of the pregnancy, not the fact of the pregnancy. Shiloh’s birth was a scheduled c-section so we don’t know when Shiloh would have been born if left to her own devices. LOL!
@Kiki
For the last time—I am someone who is interested in adoption, so I know what I’m talking about. I don’t know exactly how foreign adoption works, as I am more interested in domestic adoption–but you cannot just decide you’re going to adopt and then go get your kid. There is a long, drawn out process–ESPECIALLY for younger kids. I know that in the US (and this is info from AdoptUSKids directly) that for babies, it’s at least a nine month wait. I would imagine a lot longer for foreign adoptions, because you have to be cleared in the country of your choice, and then you have to be cleared in the US.
Now when Brad and Angelina got together—it’s not so far fetched for Angelina and Brad to BOTH make a final decision about the adoption–especially since Angelina already had a son.
Do you really think that a superstar has to go through the same routine as a normal civilian, especially for an overseas adoption? No wonder you think they didn’t cheat until Brad had “officially” left Jennifer. Sorry, but you are quite naive if you believe either of these things to be true.
You’re kidding me, right? Angelina already went through that–when she adopted Maddox, the agency she used was shady, and so she had to wait months to get cleared by the US, and bring Maddox into the country. And by your logic, you’re saying that anyone with money is automatically by passing two sets of adoption laws. Right.
Also–look at what JENNIFER has said about HER split, in her Vogue 2008 article. She said that nothing and no one went between their mutual decision, as a couple, to split–that their marriage just didn’t work out, and that she was proud of Brad, to that day, of all the things he had accomplished–THREE YEARS after they split. This wasn’t something that she said in the heat of the moment–it was three years later.
I think we can trust a 39, 40 year old to tell us what happened in HER divorce. Give HER some credit–she’s a grown woman. If she didn’t want to talk about her divorce, or give any details whatsoever, all she had to say was ‘There’s not much to say–we got a divorce, I’m a happier/more fulfilled person’–end of.
So forgive me for taking what she said literally. Is there a hidden, coded message in her statement, where she says Brad’s a cheating skank??? I would love to hear it. Maybe it was in any one of these sentences–
“He seems…great?” she says. How often do you talk? I ask. “We have exchanged a few very kind hellos and wishing you wells and sending you love and congratulations on your babies. I have nothing but absolute admiration for him, and…I’m proud of him! I think he’s really done some amazing things.”
“Well, it never was that bad,” she says, knowing that it will be hard for a lot of people to believe. “I mean, look, it’s not like divorce is something that you go, ‘Oooh, I can’t wait to get divorced!’ It doesn’t feel like a tickle. But I’ve got to tell you, it’s so vague at this point, it’s so faraway in my mind, I can’t even remember the darkness. I mean, in the end, we really had an amicable split. It wasn’t mean and hateful and all of this stuff that they tried to create aboutBrad can’t talk to Jen and Jen can’t talk to Brad because this person won’t allow it. It just didn’t happen. The marriage didn’t work out. And pretty soon after we separated, we got on the phone and we had a long, long conversation with each other and said a lot of things, and ever since we’ve been unbelievably warm and respectful of each other.
I eagerly await your reply….
Oh Please. I distinctly remember how I insipid, cheesy and implausible this film was, and I couldn’t finish the whole thing. The sets were budget, the story line a cliche, and her outfits were pure slut o ween yawny.
I would have BET my first born that the rumours of brangelina were pure PR to gain some interest in this POS.
I was shocked to hear mr Midwest went for bloodinavilearoundherneck. The whole affair seemed staged. Who knew it was going to be long term. Good thing I’m no gambling man.
You must have seen another film. The sets and costumes weren’t cheesy at all. Except for the bondage outfit – which was a hoot – Mrs. Smith wore simple, classic clothes.
Implausible plot? LOL! Of course it was. It was a wild action comedy not a true to life drama.
One of the things that I really liked about MAMS was they didn’t reduce Jane Smith into eye candy. I mean yes, Angelina is very beautiful. In the film, she was a professional working woman—so they had her in the typical skirts, blouses and things that are nice office wear—beyond the dominatrix outfit, she wasn’t in something that would reduce her to eye candy. Like at the end, when they have that shootout in the store—she’s wearing a pair of slacks and a long sleeve shirt w/a vest—NOT a pair of ridiculously tight pants or dress, with a blouse that shows off a ton of cleavage or something else ridiculous like that.
And yes i think that was the point. She was looking at the dumb house dress and she went for the suit.. just like his.. and i can still remember how he looked at her in it.. She looked sexy has heck in it too.
I know over the years FX would show MAMS at least once a week. And when it is shown on TV.. go check out twitter. Lots of chatter about it. So Call it whatever you need too. But it was a successful film. One many many people liked and will still watch now.. 10 year later; regardless of the fact that they have seen it many times.
They were so hot together on screen and off. Loved the chemistry. And that balcony scene when he just looks at her.. HELL you don’t need words for that.
ARE WE SERIOUSLY STILL TALKING ABOUT THIS?!? HOW MANY YEARS HAS IT BEEN? AT LEAST A DECADE?!? —->FIND SOMETHING MORE ORIGINAL THAN THIS ZZzzzZZZzzzz….
Well this BS story caused me to watch MMS again.Good film I see why it made over $478 million.Good to see my girl Kerry Washington in the film.
Absolutely you can hit a raw nerve 10 years later. Even twenty.
But I don’t believe the story. Just sounds like something a gossip rag would make up.
Hello Mia Farrow and Woody Allen. Granted, what Woody Allen allegedly did to his adopted daughter (including marrying a stepdaughter) was ten times worse than what Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt did behind Jennifer Aniston’s back (and it seems Jennifer ended up doing the exact same thing with Justin Theroux since he had a long-term girlfriend). But even 10 years later, even if you have moved on, the wounds are still there and it’s not something you necessarily want to revisit. Even Mia Farrow and Ronan Farrow were tweeting about what happened over 10 years ago while Woody Allen got that award at the Golden Globes.
So I wouldn’t be surprised if Jennifer acted the way she did. She was taken off guard and did not expect to see her ex and current partner on a TV screen.
i can’t imagine she’d ever be okay watching that film, would you if that was you? if you had visual evidence of the start of your husband’s next relationship after you, would you ever want to watch that?
i think the underlying issue is being deceived, & that raw nerve never goes away. the insecurity that stems from it, the self doubt that you’re not enough, and obviously the trust issues, the fear of ever letting anyone close to you again. i think that’s the issue.
i think having peace with what happened is every different than being okay with reliving it.
i think her choosing not to ruin the rest of the night, brushing it off and changing the subject was the mature thing to do. she didn’t turn her friends showing their new home into a moment all about her, she behaved like a mature adult in my opinion.
I thought the Mr/Mrs Smith movie was pretty bad. All in all, it wasn’t a good time for Jen as this is when her husband cheated with Angie, or when the mutual attraction was occurring. I’m sure it really hurt Jen, as it would hurt anyone, but she’s happy with someone else now and this happened a long time ago. I would think that the remembrance wouldn’t affect her that much anymore. However, I’m sure she wouldn’t want to see a screening of the film.
Can you have a raw nerve about something that happened 10 years ago? I’m still kind of ticked that my first boyfriend broke up with me by MOVING AWAY TO ANOTHER STATE WITHOUT TELLING ME (I was 16, now 26, he was 20, now 30). Do I want him back? No. Does it still hurt or make me cry? No. Do I still think he’s a loser douche canoe that was too much of a coward to break up with me face to face? Absolutely.