Brad Pitt's Divorce Response Sparks Backlash

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3 days ago

Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie began dating in 2005 and were together for about nine years before getting married in 2014. Their relationship lasted about 11 years in total before Angelina filed for divorce in 2016. Last December, their divorce was finalized after an eight-year legal battle.
Brad's relationship with their six children has allegedly become strained since the split. It has also been reported that Brad has "virtually no contact" with his adult children — Maddox, Pax, Zahara, and Shiloh — and limited visitation with his younger twins, Knox and Vivienne.
Brad himself has acknowledged his struggles with substance abuse during their marriage. In a 2017 interview for GQ, he described the split as a "huge generator for change" in his life. Adding, "I can't remember a day since I got out of college when I wasn't boozing or had a spliff, or something... I stopped everything except boozing when I started my family. But even this last year, you know — things I wasn't dealing with. I was boozing, too."
Angelina also spoke about the divorce in a 2017 interview with Yalda Hakim for BBC News when she was promoting her 2017 film First They Killed My Father, a movie based on the genocide in Cambodia.
When asked how she was coping, holding back tears, Angelina said, "Many, many people find themselves in this situation...and my family, we've all been through a difficult time. My focus is my children, our children, and my focus is finding this way through... We are and forever will be a family, and so that is how I am coping. I am coping with finding a way through to make sure that this somehow makes us stronger and closer."
You can watch the full interview here.
And now Brad has made his first comments about the divorce since it was finalized last year.
In another GQ interview, Brad described his divorce finalization as "not that major of a thing" and "just something coming to fruition. Legally." He expressed that the legal conclusion didn't bring him a significant sense of relief, and that it was merely a formal step in the process.
He also added, "My personal life is always 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."
And, as you can imagine, some people on TikTok have been sharing their thoughts on Brad's comments. One TikToker expressed frustration over Brad's comments, saying, "My favorite part of the interview is when he tried to act all nonchalant and chill, like Mr. Cool Guy about the divorce from Jolie. They asked him if he was relieved and he said, 'Nah...it wasn't that major.' ARE YOU KIDDING ME?!"
They seem mostly upset at the fact that he appears to be shrugging off an 11-year relationship and custody of six kids.
That, and the fact that it took nearly as long as their entire relationship just to be finalized.
Others even blamed his zodiac for what appears to be a lack of emotion about the whole situation.
Either way, it is just not sitting right with some people.
You can read more about Brad's comments on the divorce being finalized here.