Brad Pitt is going on the record for the first time to flat-out deny that he had an affair with Angelina Jolie while he was still married to Jennifer Aniston. It was commonly believed that Brad and Ange fell in love (at first sight, I believe we were told) on the set of Mr. & Mrs. Smith and began an extramarital affair behind Jen Aniston‘s back … but, in a new interview with W magazine, Brad clarifies that there was no “dastardly affair”, stating that his relationship with Angelina began after he “respectfully” ended things with Jen. HMMM. This is the first time we’re hearing about this after all these years … seems a bit fishy to me. Here is the cover of the new issue of W magazine which accompanies Brad’s revelatory coverstory:
Forget any potential catfight between Brad Pitt’s former wife, Jennifer Aniston, and his current partner, Angelina Jolie, the actor says in a new interview. Despite Aniston’s recent comment to Vogue in which she called Jolie “really uncool” for revealing how she (Jolie) couldn’t wait to go to work with the married actor on Mr. & Mrs. Smith, Pitt tells the February issue of W magazine, “Listen, man, Jen is a sweetheart. I think she got dragged into that one, and then there’s a second round to all of that Angie versus Jen. It’s so created.” The Curious Case of Benjamin Button star, 45, also says of Aniston, “We still check in with each other. She was a big part of my life, and me hers. I don’t see how there cannot be [that]. That’s life, man. That’s life.” As for his take on what took place with Jolie off-camera during the 2003 Mr. & Mrs. Smith shoot, he says, “What people don’t understand is that we filmed for a year. We were still filming after Jen and I split up. Even then it doesn’t mean that there was some kind of dastardly affair. There wasn’t.” He adds, “I’m very proud of the way that it was handled. It was respectful. [The film] will mean something to our kids. It will, that’s all.”
Curious … very curious. You’d think that someone (Brad, Angelina, Jennifer) would’ve made very clear YEARS AGO that Brad respectfully ended his marriage with Jen before he started his relationship with Ange, especially in light of all the heat that came when news broke that Brangelina were an item and that Brad and Jennifer were dunzo (in that order). HMMMM … I don’t know that I totally buy Brad‘s retelling of history here. After the jump, check out the rest of the photos from Brad‘s W magazine photospread …
I am VERY curious to hear what Jennifer Aniston has to say about these new comments when she sits down for her next interview … cuz you know someone’s gonna ask if Brad is right about there being no affair. At this point, it doesn’t really matter but if Brad is trying to retell the history of his relationship with Angelina in order to make him look better (in the eyes of his kids?, the public?) then that’s some shady biz right there. I suspect this isn’t the last we’ll be hearing about these new comments. Click HERE to read Brad‘s W magazine interview in full online.
Liar,Liar pants on fire! God, Brad looks like poo….i guess living with crazy(I mean angie) is a beatdown.
I really feel that if he considered himself Jen’s friend after the divorce he would’ve said something earlier. Everyone was already speculating about an affair and he let Jen take it all on her own when he could’ve at least tried to put rumors to bed.
Also, if he thought that parading around with his new girlfriend just months after his divorce with Jen was respectful he’s just plain dumb.
I think I would’ve respected him more if he just owned up to how shady everything was and tried to move on instead of trying to sweep it under the rug like it was all ok.
Wow – Chuck Close shot the photos!
I think it’s legit. He is very private and at that time never dreamed people would be so obsessed this far down the road. In hine sight they may have done it differently.
*shrug* Angelina said all along that nothing happened until after Pitt and Aniston had split. Brad told Larry King the same thing. It wasn’t that neither one spoke out about the timeline, but that most people don’t choose to believe their version. In the end, who really cares? It’s not our business and wasn’t our marriage. It really gets me the way that people bitch and moan about Brangelina, but these are the same people who comment on every Brangelina post defending one side or the other. It’s not that Brangelina doesn’t want to go away, but that the public won’t let them.
He looks nasty.
Jun 10th 2005 mr and mrs smith released
August 27th 2005 (roughly) Shiloh was conceived
Oct 2nd 2005 jen and brad divorced
-who really cares anymore, but obviously brad and angelina were gettin it on well before brad was divorced. people will say ‘they were separated earlier that year’. he was still married. disrespectful in my mind. BUT! lets all move on and be happy their all happy eh?
too bad brad doesn’t age as well as johnny depp. damn!
This man id really not ageing well…at all!!! I dont believe his story…its BS! I think the reason we care so much, is because Angelina once said that she would never trust a man that cheated on his wife (her father had cheated on her mom). So hypocrite of him to now claim that nothing happened while he was still married to Jen!!! He became so odd since he hooked up with Ang anyways!!! Jen’s better off without him!!!
Brad says : THEY HANDLED IT RESPECTFUL??? **News flash** Mr. Pitt! There is nothing respectful about leaving your wife for another woman!..you fucking douche-bag!!
This is a general comment that applies to many PITNB message boards–it doesn’t make any sense when you say “who cares?!” Obviously YOU care. YOU are reading a gossip column. If YOU really didn’t care about when Brad slept with Angelina for the first time, YOU shouldn’t have even read this story or taken the time to post a message about it.
Ok, I don’t like Brangelina and Jen, but in the case, I am kind of with Jen for her “uncool” comment.
Even they didn’t sleep together during Brad’s marriage to Jen doesn’t make things right, but they had absolutely flirted intensively for Brad to leave Jen. So the intention of both sides was there. If Angie is so affected by her parent’s history, she would just not flirt with any married or engaged guy at all knowing what that will lead to. Stealing someone’s lover seems like a thing she does. Cases in hand, Brand Pitt and Billy Bob. Billy Bob was engaged, then just got married to Angie without telling his fiance or something.
Usually this kind of thing happens in Hollywood and we shouldn’t really care much, but Brangelina is posing such a I’m saint, I did no wrong kind of front, is really disturbing. If they’d just either admit up front, or just keep quiet for the rest of their life, it would be much better. It kind of makes it hard to like them.
4 years later tell the magazine reporter that she felt in love with Brad during the movie, sounds like a intention to stir up press and makes it all the more hurtful for the abandoned woman.
I have to agree with Trent. Brad had years to step up and say there was nothing sordid about his and Angelina’s getting together. He could have said something MUCH sooner, but then again, the whole Branjenlina affair would have popped back up when Angelina opened her big dumb mouth about falling in love on set. Brad says in this interview that they(him and Angelina) don’t need a publicist, but I’m thinking they clearly do.
That being said, I think it’s great that he and Jen still check up on eachother and Brad was clear about her importance in his life then and now.
Honestly, I’m so sick of these three, though. At this point I don’t care when Brad screwed Angelina. We know Brad and Jen’s breakup was amicable and that there was still a lot of love between the two from the last photos we saw of them together shortly before the split.
We will never know everything that went on with them.
None of them are Saints. Brad is aging….well badly and quickly which is sad, but it’s nice that he is embracing it. He can’t stay the young golden boy forever.
I say who cares. If he loved Jen and she was the one for him, he would have remained married and not even give Jolie a second glance. He looks happy and he’s a grown man who can make his own decisions. He didn’t even look all that happy with Robo-Jen to begin with. Brad looks happy and content with his new life, wife and family. So let it be.
What a LIAR … I can hear Jennifer vomiting at that “It was respectful” comment … ugh! … Jennifer needs to never discuss these two or her marriage ever again.
He looks like Bill Clinton on that cover, right down to the crooked bottom lip. That should be his next role, just add a broader tip to his nose. Angie can play Monica. He’s starting to sound like him too in that article, he might as well have said “I did not have sex with that woman…Ms. Jolie.”
There was no affair. Honest. No Really.
Poor guy gets a hard time for nothing. I know *exactly* how he feels. Do you hear me Claire and Holly?
You know, if I was Brad Pitt, I wouldn’t have spoken up too during those 4 years of being misunderstood cos you know why, I don’t give a damn. Hello, I don’t even care when people in my school, office or everywhere else misunderstood me over some stuff. To hell with them. I know what I am doing and my loved ones know and that’s all that matters. Why bother about what outsiders think or care?
As for Jen, Brad and Angie matters, you know what? Even if they bare all their souls for us under the sun, it’s NEVER enough. Someone will always pick on someone else. Honestly, I don’t care how they get together or if they were really having an affair while Brad was still married. Just remember it takes 2 fucking hands to clap and by blaming Brad totally for the failure of the marriage, I find it so laughable.
Jen isn’t a saint as you guys paint her to be.
THEY ARE ONLY HUMANS!!!!!!!!!
What do I expect from you? You have always been an aniston fan. Obviously?
You don’t miss an opportunity to make snide remarks regarding this 2 couple. Wish you could be more fair.
oh man. i really can’t stand angie and brad.