While fans of the former A-list couple may be reticent to admit it, the love story between Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt is truly in the past.
But with a family of six children between them, the actors are still in each other’s lives and trying to make co-parenting work.
Jolie and Pitt have kept the business of separating largely private, but in a new interview, Jolie opened up about the toll it’s taken on their children.
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The couple, who famously and controversially fell in love on the set of their movie Mr. and Mrs. Smith, were an item officially after Pitt split from Jennifer Aniston in 2005.
By the time they broke up 11 years later, Pitt was the legal parent of the three children Jolie adopted before they got together and they also had three biological kids, as well. They had married in a secret ceremony in 2014.
It was Jolie who filed for divorce in 2016. The decision seemed to have been cemented by a reported altercation on a plane between Pitt, who was allegedly intoxicated, and their then 15-year-old son Maddox Jolie-Pitt. No one in the family has ever publicly discussed the supposed argument in detail, though investigations were conducted by the FBI and the Los Angeles Department of Children and Family Services, as Us Weekly reported. Although both investigations cleared Pitt of wrongdoing, he was required to attend Alcoholics Anonymous meetings and submit to drug and alcohol testing to be able to see his children. While the split has stuck, their divorce still isn’t finalized.
“I separated for the wellbeing of my family,” she told Vogue India in June 2020. “It was the right decision. I continue to focus on their healing. Some have taken advantage of my silence, and the children see lies about themselves in the media, but I remind them that they know their own truth and their own minds. In fact, they are six very brave, very strong young people.”
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Source: USA Today
