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, during which he was requested if he felt “reduction” after he and Jolie legally settled their eight-year divorce in December 2024.
“No, I don’t suppose 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 have been declared legally single in 2019, nevertheless, it wasn’t till December 2024 that the 2 formally finalized their divorce, with Jolie’s authorized staff submitting court docket paperwork that she had waived “any proper to obtain” spousal assist from Pitt “perpetually.”
“Greater than eight years in the past, Angelina filed for divorce from Mr. Pitt. She and the kids left the entire 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 an extended 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 youngsters: Maddox, Pax, Zahara, Shiloh, Knox, and Vivienne. All the youngsters, apart from Knox and Vivienne, are authorized adults. Pitt‘s uncommon remark about his divorce from Jolie additionally come after a supply instructed Individuals in July 2024 that Pitt has “just about no contact” together with his grownup youngsters.
“He has just about no contact with the grownup children. His engagement with the youthful children is extra restricted in current 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 youngsters.
“[Angelina] has the youngsters more often than not, however per their settlement, he has visitation with the youthful children,” the insider mentioned. A supply additionally confirmed to Individuals 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 youngsters, is in fact not straightforward for Brad. He loves his youngsters and misses them. It’s very unhappy.”
As for the rationale for his or her cut up, one other supply instructed Individuals in July 2024 that Jolie and Pitt “clashed” over their completely different parenting kinds. “Throughout their marriage, that they had very completely different parenting kinds. Brad grew up with construction and wished extra guidelines for the youngsters,” the supply mentioned. “Angie had a distinct upbringing and wished the youngsters to be extra unbiased and liable for their very own schedules from a younger age.”
The insider continued, “Brad and Angie clashed over this. Nonetheless, they did at all times have the identical imaginative and prescient for his or her children’ future. They wished the youngsters to thrive by experiencing the world first-hand and never solely be taught from conventional education.”
Regardless of their disagreement over how their children must 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 youngsters.”