Brad Pitt: ‘I maintain a deep friendship with Jen’
Brad Pitt has opened up about his split with Jennifer Aniston and insists he enjoys a “deep friendship” with his former wife.
The 43-year-old actor admits he followed his heart when he split with Aniston in 2005 for his then co-star Angelina Jolie, with whom he now has four children.
“Jen and I still maintain a deep friendship and have a lot of life together that isn’t erased in any way,” Pitt told Details magazine.
Of the media whirlpool that surrounded their separation, he added: “I don’t know how better to have handled it.
“My view was, this is no one’s business in the end – at least in matters of the heart.
“So you need to protect all involved as much as possible.
“I don’t know if that cooled things off or exacerbated them, but it was a thing I felt justly about at the time.
“Again, the thing guiding me then was you don’t know how many days you have and you need life to be everything you want it to be.”
It was after meeting Jolie on the set of action film Mr & Mrs Smith in 2004, that the rumour mill went into overdrive of a close bond between the two.
At the time Pitt was still married to America’s Sweetheart Jennifer Aniston, but by the start of the following year, the couple announced their separation.
Pitt was soon inseparable from new girlfriend Jolie and they were photographed in a number of exotic locations including Kenya.
The couple now have three adopted children – six-year-old Maddox, Pax, 3, Zahara, 2, and one biological child, one-year-old Shiloh.
On his instant family, Pitt said: “Listen, I’ve always embraced extremes, so it doesn’t feel odd to me.
“There’s a couple weeks of finding your balance, and then it’s in stone.
“It (my family) pleases me so much. I get so warm.”
Of his adopted children, Maddox, Pax and Zahara, Pitt told Details: “I don’t even see in that, anymore, what their lives could have been. I have to intellectually think about that.
“They are a bond, they are a family. And I want to see those bonds and that family grow.
“And that right there, sitting in our kitchen, is how I want to see the world. It’s how I want the world to be.”
As for turning 40, the man often described as the ‘Sexiest Male in the World’, admits he has to work harder to maintain his physique.
“I liked it, man. Maybe I had a crisis earlier or something. Maybe I had it in my 30s.
“One thing sucks, your face kind of goes. Your body’s not quite working the same.
“But you earned it. You earned that, things falling apart.”
September 5th, 2007 at 2:42 pm
His eyes do look empty with her. I really hate it, but sometimes we have to do what we have to do. God Bless them all!
September 5th, 2007 at 2:45 pm
“My view was, this is no one’s business in the end – at least in matters of the heart.”
Translation : “none of their effing business that I’m a cheater falling for a man-thief”.
September 5th, 2007 at 2:54 pm
Yeap I got no love for a cheater. I really don’t care much for him now.
September 5th, 2007 at 3:26 pm
He eyes always look empty, he doesn’t have a mind of his own.
September 5th, 2007 at 4:28 pm
Lettibe, you are stupid! You are always trashing him. If he didn’t have a mind of his own, he’d still be with Jennifer Aniston! You can’t escape your soul mate, that’s just the way it is.
September 5th, 2007 at 4:42 pm
No “Blondey” your stupid!!! Escape your soul mate, bullshit! Listen to what you are saying. Now, that is stupid!
I call it the way i see it. He is an ASS even to bring up the past in his interview. Everyone has moved on & he has to talk about his break up w/ Jen? What the f*** is up w/ that.
September 5th, 2007 at 4:46 pm
Boo Hoo Hoo! Brad’s in Damage Control cos he has a crap movie coming out soon.Angelina has trained him well.
If he doesn’t care what anyone thinks of him then he shouldn’t bring up his ex from 3 years ago (to look like a good guy) and if he hates the intrusion into the lives of his children then he shouldn’t be talking about them to sell magazines, period.
Brad is a hypocrite. If he thinks Paris is oblivious then so is he; oblivious to the fact that his partner doesn’t care about Shiloh and that she only had her to trap him cos it was the biggest piece missing from his marriage. What a lame moron.
September 5th, 2007 at 7:05 pm
He brings it up now to drum up publicity for his new movie. Brad and Angelina have no shame. They will do anything and exploit every aspect of themselves for a movie. The two most notorious fame whores in Hollywood.
September 6th, 2007 at 2:36 pm
Ummmmmmm, I think we all know what was guiding him so to speak and it wasn’t his heart. The guy is a jerk!!
September 6th, 2007 at 2:49 pm
LOL…Lettibe, now you’re really proving how STUPID you are! Everyone else has moved on???!!! There isn’t a day that goes by that someone brings up poor Jen… And this is the first time I have read that he is talking about it. Maybe you need to move on. Green, I say, all of you people are green with envy.
September 6th, 2007 at 5:22 pm
No DUMB blondey, Brad talks about Jen in his interview.
So, It’s obvious that he is has not moved on! Read the interview.
No, not everyone is green w/ envy. Your are so childish!
September 7th, 2007 at 10:37 pm
If you’re so mature, learn some grammar, dumb ass.
September 11th, 2007 at 3:34 pm
It was a typo childish, B****!