There was a moment, however brief, where it felt like Brad Pitt was publicly begging Angelina Jolie to take him back. Maybe two moments – one moment immediately following the plane incident in 2016, when Angelina took the kids and ghosted, then one moment after Brad made a big deal about how he was in some kind of program. I think about those moments sometimes. The original Brangelina energy could probably never be re-established (Angelina was still pissed off at Brad years later), but God, they were fun. Anyway, true story: Angelina and Brad still haven’t worked out everything regarding their divorce, and there are still big chunks (custody, money) to be worked out. But things are looking up during the lockdown. This is the first time in years that Angelina, Brad and the kids have all been in the same city for months at a time. And Angelina and Brad are working on being cordial.
Despite their messy divorce, Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie seem to be on good terms, multiple sources reveal exclusively in the new issue of Us Weekly.
“Things between Brad and Angelina are better than they have been,” says an insider. “They’re more cordial — they’re aiming toward resolutions that work for each of them.”
Following their 2016 split, the former pair — who were together for a total of 12 years — famously went to war over custody of their children: Maddox, 18, Pax, 16, Zahara, 15, Shiloh, 13, and 11-year-old twins Knox and Vivienne. However, the actor, 56, and actress, 44, have recently come to an agreement: Pitt currently sees the younger children every few days, says a second source.
While he’s not in contact with Maddox and Pax — Us previously reported that the Oscar winner’s relationship with his eldest sons are strained — he still gets updates about them from their mother, says the source. And to make matters even better, Jolie is particularly “impressed with Brad’s continued sobriety,” adds the insider.
Pitt, who revealed in 2017 that he’d given up alcohol, hasn’t been able to attend his usual Alcoholics Anonymous meetings since self-quarantine orders went into effect, notes the second insider, but “he’s in regular contact with his support network.”
I genuinely, no-shade hope that Brad is still speaking to his AA sponsor and attending virtual meetings and such. I feel like his journey to sobriety was not as smooth as he makes it out to be. And yes, I imagine Angelina would give him some encouragement and praise about his recovery. It’s been almost four years since they split – I feel like the thawing between them has been happening for a little while now, and it would be great if they got to a point where they could successfully coparent without any drama. I also find it interesting – again – that as soon as those kids are turning 14, they don’t want to spend time with Brad.
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Could it be his PR team and not him at the origin of the smear campaign against Angelina?
Not without his permission, if it was once, maybe they could’ve done it without his permission, but it went on for years.
I am in recovery, and maintaining my sobriety can be challenging on a good day. And I can say that in active addiction, I did things I would never, ever do while sober. I lied, cheated, stole, hurt my family and friends. Loneliness and isolation always made me turn to drinking in the past. I wish Brad all the best in his continuing sobriety, and everyone suffering from addiction. Times certainly aren’t ideal for those of us in recovery.
good luck in your recovery
Congratulations on your sobriety – and I hope you have a strong support network, especially during this isolation.
Congratulations and best wishes for your ongoing recovery.
Congratulations! I celebrate 5 months today.
Us Weekly LOL
Whoopty do.
Please it’s US weekly. It’s all BS from his PR team.
Us Weekly is a tabloid. I am amazed how people believe it.
Shiloh is 14 in 19 days, let’s see what happens.
I couldn’t imagine in 2005 that in 2020, the only emotion Pitt would evoke in me is “Eww, ughh, go away..” Sad.
Zahara is 15 and it says it’s only the two older boys he’s not in contact with…
They are juicy gossip and Brad is a Trainwreck. It’s easy to forget that once upon a time, these two people loved each other dearly and built a family together.
I can’t believe their divorce is still ongoing. It’s almost twice as long as their marriage at this point.
Hopefully he is maintaining his sobriety and they are being civil towards each other, it’s best for the kids.
I hope for all involved that they do end up cordial. Stuff like this eats energy that is better spent elsewhere.
I wonder if Angie tried to help him with his addiction problems. She also had problems with drugs and self harming – I would think she would be sympathetic and supportive. She still smokes though which is an addiction and damaging. I think Brad has worked hard to deal with his addictions – hopefully he maintains it.
It would be hard if the kids decide not to have contact with him they are still very young. I also feel that they had differences in the way they brought up the children. He was more keen on school and she wants them to be individuals. I think her views come from all the discredited work of Ayn Rand sadly. Hopefully they are both getting on for the sake of their children and less of the snide from both of them.
Angelina is the one who is insisting on children’s schooling and education – she is, per Brad, the organized parent who is always making sure all homeworks are done and everything is running smoothly for children, he even called her “militant” in her organization. Education and being individuals is not exclusive – she is propagating importance of education around the world, so I’m sure she is super insisting on education for her children (Maddox is in college studying biochem, isn’t he?)
Also, how do you know that Angelina is still smoking? Have you seen proof that Angelina is smoking besides those two pics where she was taking a puff from Brad’s cigarette outside the awards show? I haven’t seen picture of her smoking since she had kids. And, in interview from 2007 that Brad did with Clooney for Oceans13, he was hiding his smokes because he said that Angie didn’t want him to smoke. He was also hiding his pot from her according to Tarantino, so, yeah, see the pattern here… Promises that were not kept.
I feel this is like a tabloid talk about how Brad is doing so well with a shade tossed about Angelina in every other sentence that is prevalent and the result of his relentless PR.
@Lisa
Lol, I hope you posted the same thing to 100+ posters that daily post passionate posts about Meghan Markle. Unfairness hurts when you see it directed to a person that doesn’t deserve it.
@Kay, if you could only be as magnanimous towards Angelina as you are with Brad. For all the talk about stability, Angelina has been the key stabilizing presence in those kids lives even when they were togther. Who do you think was doing the brunt of the parenting when he was by his own admission an absentee parent? I also don’t get this whole thing about Pitt being the one who was keen on school. Do you think Maddox got accepted to Uni as some kind of fluke? Didn’t Pitt once say they were like nomads moving around for their work? Who worked more when they were together?
The early years of child’s development is extremely important. I have no doubt that Angelina Jolie loves and supports her children. She wants them to have a childhood that she never had. They have travelled by private jet all over the world and are very privileged children. You can still be worldly without having the privilege of travelling everywhere.
She has said in numerous interviews about her beliefs about parenting. In an interview she has said that artists bring their children up differently. When she was a single parent with Maddox and living in England she didn’t like it when a teacher told her that Maddox could not wear a helicopter necklace at the school. She said she wanted her child to be an individual. (Vanity Fair Interview) There was a whole team of people involved in helping her and Brad bring up the children. They had bodyguards who took them swimming/shopping. They have cleaners, cooks, nannies and private teachers.
I believe she practices Buddhism – all religions and faiths have forgiveness in them. I’m sure the children want their parents to get along and hope they get better and become better people. You might not agree with everything your parents do or say, but you can still be civilised and respectful.
People can evolve and they should be supported and encouraged.
It baffles me that people think Angelina is such a bad mother and person yet she had full custody for almost four years. The entire family regularly meets with a psychologist. If she was such a bad influence and detrimental to the kids, she probably wouldn’t have custody or would have to jump through a lot of hoops to retain it.
Crazy isn’t it? He gets the benefit of every doubt but her actions are scrutinized and found wanting. I’m still laughing over the “she still smokes and that’s a sign of addiction” completely ignoring that he’s a smoker as well. The cognitive dissonance of some is absolutely baffling.
I don’t think Angelina Jolie is a bad mother – she does everything she can for her children and wants them to be great people. She is an artist through and through and was surrounded by artists when she grew up. I think they both may have different approaches to bringing up their children. I think she decided everything and he just let her get on with it. Brad never grew up in an artistic family his was more traditional and rigid. Men can feel insecure when their wives are successful. I don’t think he gave her enough emotional support when she was dealing with the loss of her mother and her serious operations. He just drank and took drugs like he always has. She needed him to clean up his act and be there for the children if she couldn’t be. Hopefully they can be forgiving and supportive as a family.
Brad seems like a hard worker. I watched him on Celebrity IOU, and it seemed that he is a kind guy who puts thought and hard work into helping his friends. He may have been drinking to cope from stress of working in a very difficult competitive industry. He may have faults, but I think he seems like a good friend to have around.
I agree. I think he’s a good person but a horrible (as in unreliable) partner who has commitment issues. Gets bored and likes to roam. I’m a Sagittarius woman with a lot of planets in Sag and I would never date a Sag guy. (Though please do not take my words as lore and be reluctant to do so yourself if you find a great one!)
Wish he had worked that hard on his New Orleans project!
Brads like a value stock that is trading at a 30% discount because of a temporary situation. Some smart girl like Alia is going to scoop him up right now when other ladies aren’t noticing his true personality and value. Alia is smart; I’m learning from her. She goes after what she wants and gets it.
She gonna scoop
Him up? Lol Hunny he uses her like he does everyone. He won’t even acknowledge her as a gf, they are just friends. She is wasting her time he isn’t at all beneficial to her. He is 57 and an addict who is selfish. I hope she thinks long and hard and don’t let him sway her like he does everyone else.
I think he’s a decent friend but a horrible boyfriend. Look at how he tossed Jen Aniston just like that when he found a more interesting muse. I still enjoy his films but I’m assuming he’s a pretentious self-absorbed bf/partner, one who’s more interested in living what he thinks is an “artiste’s” (with a capital A ) lifestyle in real life. Yes, he won’t even acknowledge her but it seems (with the leaks yesterday or day before), that she’s trying to blow it open whilst his side is saying they’re just friends.
Why would any young woman Alia’s age want to be tied down to a 57 yr old man with ssues and like 10 kids half of them who don’t speak to him? She’s clearly insecure and has low self esteem for her to be going out of her way for 2020 Brad Pitt. Ladies love yourself and stop letting old fuckbois take advantage lol
I played one of her talks at some arts festival on the background whilst surfing the net. She’s very self-possessed and knows what she wants (but has that navel-gazing, somewhat nonsensical David Foster Wallace approach to life, art, etc). I think she and Pitt are totally into being “artistes” and that’s what they have in common. But I agree with your question. I’m a little older than she is and I would never date someone so much older with so much baggage.
First of all, she looks amazing in that old photo where she’s is wearing the minty sweater. Second, I miss them as a couple. My God they were good looking. Sucks that he turned out to be an abusive dirtbag 🙁
I wonder how Bruce and Demi managed to be civil to get other. Even well after both remarried.
Bruce Willis has talked about that. Apparently Bruce was having a lot of anger issues associated with Demi being with a much younger man (Ashton Kutcher), and Will Smith told Bruce, “No, you’ve got to get it so everyone can be in the same room. Your kids have to know it’s okay to like Mom’s new boyfriend or Dad’s new girlfriend. They have to *see* that they don’t have to pick sides.”
Bruce said that advice helped him turn a corner, and yeah, theirs is a family that remains a healthy, loving, happy family (without Ashton, now), despite the divorce.
Bread and circuses. This is absolutely correct. I wish my husband’s ex understood this. I feel for the kids in situations where the parents are still bitter years later.
She looks good in the last pic, whenever she’s not wearing all black or sack outfits. As a couple they should have enjoy a long (2, 3, whatever years) hot romance and left it at that. Expanded their family too quickly and committed when they weren’t really good couple material. As a keen people-watcher/celeb-gossiper, I think Angelina – despite her wild-child past – has been capable of a long, steady, committed relationship for a very long time and she was deeply in love with him (on the red carpet, etc, you could tell (expression, body lan) she was just enamoured and passionate).
On the other hand, I think he loved her a lot too but he was kind of following along and seems an unreliable discreet-cheater type who might think of his (IMO numerous) flings as artistic endeavours or “exploring life.” Anyway, that’s just my take. The fact they hadn’t been photographed together so long, he didn’t even go to her Kung Fu Panda II thing, he was travelling along, etc. They should have had a long, hot fling and Angelina should have waited for the right guy/girl to come along to start her family.
This coming from Brads camp of media outlets Us Weekly, foreshore we know it’s making Brad lookike he’s the bigger better parent and man. And how he was forced to become cordial with the witch that Us Weekly keep reminding us with? The added for boys of two adopted boys don’t see him anymore. But still this outlet is unable to explain why Brad Pitt hasn’t been seen with a single kida from 6 in public. And don’t start the Brad is private bullshit as we all have seen how private wasn’t since the kids were adopted and born. Every time there is a court filing , out comes Brads team deflecting attention with cover of lies. Angelina has been a good mother who put her kids well being and safety first. And it shows. Brad needs to go back doing what he does best melt into his latest girlfriend Ali’s Shawkat the artist
This is the same husband and father who slipped many of Father Days and their birthdays in favour of his hobbies and work. Now he all of a sudden wants the public to think he has been a hands on father all 12 year’s. Which we all know was all smoke and mirrors. Since he was the one who checked out on his own kids and got bored with his life with Angelin a and kids. Since leaving them he ran back to his old gang of people and ridiculed Angelina at every possible chance , even allowed Maddox a minor at the time take the blame . I never believed him not his managers then? Not do I beleive him know after 4 years. I havent forgotten his and Alia Shawkat gaslightibg Angelina speeches. Which he was very proud of and got applause for. And now he’s acting he’s cordial.Never all lies.
This is the same husband and father who slipped many oöf Father Days and their birthdays in favour of his hobbies and work. Now he all of a sudden wants the public to think he has been a hands on father all 12 year’s. Which we all know was all smoke and mirrors. Since he was the one who checked out on his own kids and got bored with his life with Angelin a and kids. Since leaving them he ran back to his old gang of people and ridiculed Angelina at every possible chance , even allowed Maddox a minor at the time take the blame . I never believed him not his managers then? Not do I beleive him know after 4 years. I havent forgotten his and Alia Shawkat gaslightibg Angelina speeches. Which he was very proud of and got applause for. And now he’s acting he’s cordial.Never all lies.