Brad Pitt breaks silence on divorce from Angelina Jolie
Brad Pitt has spoken out about his divorce from Angelina Jolie for the first time.
In a May 28 interview with GQ, the 61-year-old actor opened up about how his personal life has always been in the news.
"It’s been in the news for 30 years, bro, or some version of my personal life—let’s put it that way," he said, describing it as an "annoyance" that he's "had to always deal with in different degrees, large and small, as I do the things I really want to do."
"So, it’s always been this kind of nagging time suck or waste of time, if you let it be that, I don’t know," he added.
The media publication then touched on a bit about his divorce from Jolie, which Pitt said he doesn't think of as "that major of a thing."
For him, it was "just something coming to fruition—legally."
Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie's divorce battle
Pitt and Jolie reached a divorce settlement in December 2024.
The two became a couple after co-starring in the 2005 movie Mr. and Mrs. Smith. They share six children: Maddox, 23, Pax, 21, Zahara, 20, Shiloh, 19, and twins Vivienne and Knox, 16.
In 2016, Jolie accused Pitt of raping her on a private plane. She also claimed Pitt “physically and verbally” assaulted her and their kids, and said he was already abusive before the plane incident. This was when the Eternals star filed for divorce.
They were ruled legally single in 2019.
Since then, Pitt and Jolie have been embroiled in legal battles, the center of which was the winery Miraval they had bought when they were still together.
Jolie accused Pitt of not letting her sell her share of the winery to him unless she agreed to a "more onerous" and "expansive" non-disclosure agreement (NDA).
In June 2023, PEOPLE reported that Pitt sued Jolie for selling her portion of their shared winery without consulting him.
The lawsuit claims the purported sale was "unlawful" due to "contractual agreement" breaches between Jolie and Pitt "to hold Miraval together and not sell their interests separately without the other's consent."
Jolie’s lawyers said the winery lawsuit would not have happened if Pitt had purchased her share when she made the offer. They accused Pitt of refusing the deal unless it came with the NDA, even as he supposedly feared that sealed documents in their other legal battle—the custody of their children—could be made public.
A June 2023 filing from Pitt’s team, meanwhile, claimed it was Jolie who suggested an “even broader non-disparagement clause” as part of the deal. Pitt’s team presented a “narrower” one “intended to protect the business.”
Last November, Jolie won a motion seeking to make Pitt disclose documents that would show his alleged abuses. These include emails, texts, and other written communications, but not those involving him and his attorneys or therapists.
