Brad Pitt in a suit posing next to Angelina Jolie in a white shirt at the premiere of ‘By the Sea’.
Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie’s divorce was a tumultuous experience for both, one that continues to affect them and their families. One alleged insider even claimed Pitt only learned who his ex-wife was after they were no longer together.
A source claimed Brad Pitt would never revisit his marriage with Angelina Jolie
Angelina Jolie posing in a black dress next to Brad Pitt at the WSJ. Magazine 2015 Innovator Awards.
According to Hollywood Life, Jolie briefly second-guessed her decision to divorce Pitt. The two had only been married for two years before separating in 2016. But they’d been dating since 2004. Jolie was initially the one who filed for the divorce, giving a vague but cryptic explanation for her decision to The Guardian.
“I’m not the kind of person who makes decisions like the decisions I had to make lightly. It took a lot for me to be in a position where I felt I had to separate from the father of my children,” she said.
There were reports that an incident between Pitt, Jolie, and their family on a plane caused the Maleficent star to end her relationship with Pitt. A couple of years after their split, however, an insider claimed that Jolie couldn’t help but reevaluate her choices.
“Lately, there are times when Angelina feels major regrets over ending things with Brad. There are days she can’t help but question if she made the right choices for her family. The more her anger at him fades the more she misses him,” the insider said.
However, another insider report said Pitt wouldn’t be in the least bit interested in rekindling his marriage with Jolie.
“Brad couldn’t care less about Angelina supposedly missing him, or regretting filing for divorce, that relationship is well and truly over as far as he’s concerned, and Brad has zero desire to revisit it, and give it a second shot,” the source said. “If he ever actually, truly, knew the real Angelina, because he never imagined that the woman he fell in love with and married could behave in the way she has toward him.”
Brad Pitt surprised Angelina Jolie when she got to know him on ‘Mr. and Mrs. Smith’
Initially, it was Pitt who surprised Jolie with who he really was. Although under very different circumstances. The two stars met filming Mr. and Mrs. Smith, where Jolie admitted to having certain preconceived notions about Pitt beforehand. She was glad to see Pitt wasn’t at all who she thought he’d be.
“Brad was a huge surprise to me,” Jolie once told Vogue (via The Independent). “I think we were both the last two people who were looking for a relationship. I certainly wasn’t. I was quite content to be a single mom with Mad. And I didn’t know much about exactly where Brad was in his personal life. But it was clear he was with his best friend, someone he loves and respects. And so we were both living, I suppose, very full lives.”
The impression that Pitt left on Jolie made the Oscar winner wonder if there was perhaps more between them than she realized.
“Because of the film we ended up being brought together to do all these crazy things, and I think we found this strange friendship and partnership that kind of just suddenly happened. I think a few months in I realised, God, I can’t wait to get to work. Whether it was shooting a scene or arguing about a scene or gun practice or dance class or doing stunts—anything we had to do with each other, we just found a lot of joy in it together and a lot of real teamwork. We just became kind of a pair. And it took until, really, the end of the shoot for us, I think, to realise that it might mean something more than we’d earlier allowed ourselves to believe,” she said.
