Brad Pitt is formally prepared to maneuver on from Angelina Jolie. Pitt broke his silence on his divorce from his ex-wife in an interview with GQ in Could 2025, wherein he was requested if he felt “reduction” after he and Jolie legally settled their eight-year divorce in December 2024.
“No, I don’t assume it was that main of a factor,” he mentioned. “Simply one thing coming to fruition. Legally.” Jolie first filed for divorce in September 2016. They had been declared legally single in 2019, nevertheless, it wasn’t till December 2024 that the 2 formally finalized their divorce, with Jolie’s authorized crew submitting court docket paperwork that she had waived “any proper to obtain” spousal assist from Pitt “without end.”
“Greater than eight years in the past, Angelina filed for divorce from Mr. Pitt. She and the youngsters left all the properties that they had shared with Mr. Pitt, and since that point she has centered on discovering peace and therapeutic for his or her household,” Jolie’s lawyer, James Simon, mentioned in a press release on the time.
He continued, “This is only one a part of a protracted ongoing course of that began eight years in the past. Frankly, Angelina is exhausted, however she is relieved this one half is over.”
Pitt and Jolie share six kids: Maddox, Pax, Zahara, Shiloh, Knox, and Vivienne. All the children, apart from Knox and Vivienne, are authorized adults. Pitt‘s uncommon remark about his divorce from Jolie additionally come after a supply instructed Folks in July 2024 that Pitt has “nearly no contact” together with his grownup kids.
“He has nearly no contact with the grownup children. His engagement with the youthful children is extra restricted in latest months due to his filming schedule,” the insider mentioned. The supply additionally defined that the couple’s custody settlement permits visitation rights to their minor kids.
“[Angelina] has the children more often than not, however per their settlement, he has visitation with the youthful children,” the insider mentioned. A supply additionally confirmed to Folks in June 2024 that Pitt was “conscious” of his and Jolie’s daughte, Shiloh, dropping “Pitt” from her final title after she turned 18 years previous.
“He’s conscious and upset that Shiloh dropped his final title,” the insider mentioned. “The reminders that he’s misplaced his kids, is in fact not simple for Brad. He loves his kids and misses them. It’s very unhappy.”
As for the rationale for his or her cut up, one other supply instructed Folks in July 2024 that Jolie and Pitt “clashed” over their completely different parenting types. “Throughout their marriage, that they had very completely different parenting types. Brad grew up with construction and wished extra guidelines for the children,” the supply mentioned. “Angie had a distinct upbringing and wished the children to be extra impartial and accountable for their very own schedules from a younger age.”
The insider continued, “Brad and Angie clashed over this. Nevertheless, they did all the time have the identical imaginative and prescient for his or her children’ future. They wished the children to thrive by experiencing the world first-hand and never solely be taught from conventional education.”
Regardless of their disagreement over how their children needs to be raised, a second supply claimed that each Jolie and Pitt “care” about their household. “They nonetheless each actually care,” the insider mentioned. “They each care in regards to the kids.”
