All of Angelina Jolie’s six kids are home with her in LA. Maddox, her oldest kid, had gone to South Korea for his first year of college, but the college sent all of the students home in March because of the pandemic. So all six kids are there with her, and from the looks of the paparazzi photos, Brad Pitt comes to see them often. Us Weekly and the Daily Mail are always writing stories to go along with a Pitt sighting near Angelina’s house, stuff about how Angelina and Brad get along better now, or how Brad and the younger kids are spending more time together. That’s what I think this is: a made-up story claming now that Maddox is home in LA, Angelina wants him to reconcile with Brad.
Now that Angelina Jolie is back on good terms with Brad Pitt, the actress, 45, wants her children to have a better relationship with their dad, a source exclusively reveals in the new issue of Us Weekly. Jolie “has been advocating for a reconciliation” between the actor and their oldest kids: Maddox, 19, Pax, 16, and “to a lesser extent, Zahara, 15, says the source. (The exes, who split in 2016 after a total of 12 years together, also share Shiloh, 14, and 12-year-old twins Vivienne and Knox.)
A second source close to the family, however, counters that “there’s no sign this is true, but it would be great if they were.”
As Us previously reported, Pitt’s relationship with Maddox in particular has been strained ever since the 2016 plane incident that led to Jolie’s filing for divorce. The former pair had gotten into an argument after the Oscar winner was heavily drinking on their flight from Nice, France, to Los Angeles. “The relationship continues to be nonexistent, a source told Us in July.
[From Us Weekly]
I would imagine that Maddox and Brad have probably spoken since Madd has been home and clearly, Brad has been coming by Angelina’s house. But I don’t think Angelina would “advocate” for any of her kids to do something they don’t want to do. I don’t think she’s that kind of mom, especially when her oldest has already made steps to fly away from the nest. I’m sure she and Maddox have talked about what went down on the plane and all that. I just think that she’ll probably let him make up his own mind about whether or not he wants to reconcile with Brad. I also think this is just some sh-t coming from Brad’s camp to make it sound like all is forgiven and he’s suddenly father of the year.
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Yup, I don’t see Angelina encouraging a relationship between the two and Us Weekly, to me, is more in line with The Enquirer. Mostly made up stories. But I will say that when she desires that she is out, she’s out for good, no wiggle room for negotiations or reconciliation. I wonder if the final details of their divorce has been finalized.
The phrasing of this sentence is the obvious tell that this comes from Brad’s camp: “The former pair had gotten into an argument after the Oscar winner was heavily drinking on their flight from Nice, France, to Los Angeles.” They could have said “Pitt” but they wrote “The Oscar winner” distancing him and muddying the water since both are Oscar winners. A casual reader who didn’t know what went down could easily mistake that Jolie was heavily drinking.
wow, good catch on the wording there. *I* knew they were referring to Pitt but you’re absolutely right that someone who doesn’t follow h’wood gossip could think it was Jolie. Damn.
Wow
This story doesn’t fit anything we know about Angelina’s parenting style. We wouldn’t be happy about one parent demonizing another, and we shouldn’t be happy to hear one parent pushing a child to forgive or accept bad behaviour, either.
I notice there’s no mention here of Brad taking responsibility (whatever the specifics, I don’t know) or taking steps to earn a reconciliation. No, now it’s on Maddox to forgive and forget, and his mom will get the blame if he doesn’t. This kind of language is so loaded and so harmful.
Seriously doubt it.
Angelina is focused on her kids’ well-being, which I think includes trying to have a good relationship with their dad (now that he is presumably sober). I don’t see her actively advocating, but I do see her telling Maddox that it would be a good idea to give reconciliation a chance, if he asked for her input. Just my two cents.
I agree with you – especially given that Angelina, herself, has tried to forge some type of a relationship with her own father over the years.
They might be getting back together. Supposedly they’ve been hooking up again
Sure. In other news, Joe Biden is going to destroy God.
@Venus.
What you said..
Also, water continues to be wet.
Bwah ha ha ha ha! Love it!
Maddox is an adult, I just don’t see AJ advocating for anything. Not her style. In the unlikely event Maddox and Pitt somehow reunited AJ would support whatever Maddox chose to do. But it’s his call.
Fake news. I don’t believe for one second, Pitt is going to their house. Why should Maddox and Pax be forced to put up with his presence in their home? That is their safe space.
There are photos of him visiting. It’s an 11,000 square foot house they’re probably hanging out in a separate wing when he visits. More importantly, I highly doubt Angelina would be allowing him to come to the house if any of the kids had an issue with it.
There are photos of him in Jolie’s house or are you referring to the pics of him entering and leaving the communal gate of their gated neighborhood? Doesn’t David Fincher live in that neighborhood as well? Why is it more plausible that he is going to Jolie’s home? Is it because he had the paps there to take the pics and had his pr run to the tabloids with this false narrative? Also, if you’re going to insist on this narrative, why don’t the kids want to go to his house? Shouldn’t that more of a concern? I know some like to allude to the fact that it’s Covid related, but would he not be endangering them since he’s not a member of their household and god only knows where else and with whom he gets up to?
I’m not insisting on any narrative, I honestly don’t care that much. I think it’s more likely he’s visiting his kids.
Also the visits were on Tuesdays and Thursdays which seems more like a scheduled visitation thing to me than him dropping by a friend’s house.
I sometimes wonder what these have been witnessed to. I have no doubt in my mind that Maddox is disrancing himself from Brad for more reasons than that plane incident.
Would Jolie and Pitt drink and get into a lot of fights and physical altercations?
Maddox must have seen something more or the relationship with Pitt must have been strained from before.
I grew up with a father who drank. He worked and was perfect on the outside, but would drink heavily and yell and be mean to us kids and especially our mother.
Never physical, but he didn’t have to. He left us feeling confused and scared because he would be a wonderful dad sober.
I’m sorry, but you are insinuating that Angelina was drinker too. Where did you get that from? If anything, she was the one who was devastated by his drinking and was trying to make him stop.
Angelina wasn’t the problem drinker in this relationship.
OT: i recently rewatched Mr and Mrs Smith and forgot what a god awful movie that was lol But atleast a family came out of it.
It was definitely a movie of its time. A lot of films from the early and mid aughts would never be made today.
Anyone else pissed about the wording of the first sentence of the article? AS IF Angelina would want her kids to have better relationships with Pitt because she now is back on good terms with him. They still want to portray her as petty and manipulative.
Hey, this is a rather Angie-neutral story from US Weakly. I am SHOCKED. They know jacksh*t about what goes on in Angie et family life. That being said, I really do hope Brad and ALL of his kids reconcile, but I’m not buying into this garbage. Angie once made a comment about US Weakly on the red carpet when an interviewer asked her if she bought a waterfall or something like that for Brad’s birthday — a nonsense story reported in the tabs. She had replied in joking manner “where did you hear that? From US Weakly?” That gotta stung. From there, it was all doubling-down on negative Angie gossip from them — her jealousy, bitterness, resentment, jealousy, jealousy, and more jealousy. Anyhoo, it’s Friday, I hope all you Celebitchy fans are keeping safe!
Angelina is promoting a movie about animal, she as an elephant, and suddenly he also in the news, with entering gate of her house and gives the charity about free food giving or something and appear in the video about John Lewis, and what about one of his friend has domestic abuse and ended with suicide, the guy was picture with pitt last year the same day with shiloh birthday (in Venice) no news from his pr.
This article is just more proof that Angelina has full custody and Brad has visitation only not joint custody.
Maybe AJ let’s Brad see his kids more than every other weekend as long as the visits are at her house?
Maybe AJ let’s Brad see his kids more than every other weekend as long as the visits are at her house?
I don’t believe this article from the first sentence, which essentially says “Now that Angelina is getting along better with Brad, she wants the kids to, also.” No. I think she always wanted them to have a good relationship with their father, provided they would be safe around him, which they weren’t at the beginning of the split. Hence, the split.
Agree with everything you wrote.
X3. Why no more pics if he was visiting Jolie. We have two separate pics but then that’s it. All of a sudden they can’t get pics anymore. Smells fishy to me. I don’t think BP sees any of those kids or Angie as much as he would like us to believe.