Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie’s marriage was one of the most talked about topics in Hollywood when they were both still passionate. However, those happy times have now been overshadowed by a long and controversial legal battle.

Those who follow Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie all know that their fairy-tale marriage ended after an alleged fight broke out on a flight from France and the US in September 2016. The scandal was so shocking that the US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) stepped in to clarify. Although Brad Pitt was later determined not guilty, Angelina did not accept that conclusion and even filed a lawsuit against the investigation agency.

In early April, everything seemed to be coming to an end with the news that Brad withdrew from the custody dispute. However, Angelina was determined not to let her ex-husband go.

On April 4, Angelina Jolie’s legal team filed a petition with the Los Angeles County Superior Court, stating that Brad Pitt had a history of physically abusing the actress before the dispute. on a private plane 8 years ago.

As before, the Bullet Train actor denied all allegations of physical abuse. The lawyer also criticized his ex-wife for being hypocritical on his behalf, blaming him for hiding the truth.

While the By The Sea couple’s legal battle continues to intensify, people look back at the process from when Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie ignored the controversy to get together and then ended their beautiful love by getting bogged down in enmity.

Where love begins

Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie’s relationship began causing controversy when the two met on the set of the action-romance film Mr. &Mrs. Smith . At that time, Brad was married to Jennifer Aniston.

Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt met through Mr. &Mrs. Smith .

Two years later, the actor born in 1963 divorced his first wife and married his beautiful female co-star. Although they denied that their love blossomed while filming, rumors of infidelity still haunt the three until now.

In an interview with Vogue in 2006, Angelina confirmed that she and Brad were just “very good friends” after completing the film. They are not looking for a romantic relationship at that time.

“Because of the movie, we were pulled together to do all this crazy stuff. I think we found this strange friendship and collaboration that just happened out of the blue. And then life developed in a direction where we could be together, where we felt like we were going to do something we should do,” the 7X woman confided.

Two years later, when a New York Times reporter asked his children if they had seen Mr. &Mrs. Smith yet, Angelina describes it as “the movie where their parents fell in love.”

An insider said that during filming, Jolie showed up at Pitt’s property and said Maddox wanted to say hello to him. In the end, the actor was fascinated by the boy and the mother.

Finally, Brad and Jennifer separated in January 2005 before completing divorce proceedings in October of the same year. At that time, the former couple denied breaking up due to infidelity through a joint statement: “Our separation is not the result of any speculation reported by the tabloid press.” .

Not long after starting his relationship with Jolie, Pitt also officially adopted his son Maddox in 2006.

Maddox is the first child in the Jolie-Pitt family. Photo: WireImage.

Unusual family life

The first thing to note is that there is nothing normal about the family life that Brad and Angelina have built .

In an interview with W Magazine , the Maleficent star revealed that he took Maddox knife shopping when he was 7 years old. According to the beauty , her mother told her to do the same thing when she was 11 or 12 years old.

She insisted on choosing toys for her first son from a special store and knives that did not have any sharp edges.

“We also talked about samurai and the idea that protecting someone is good. We talk about everything,” she explains.

Meanwhile, on Entertainment Weekly , Angelina revealed that at the age of 6, Maddox drew a picture of a machine gun on a Mother’s Day card. Then, based on that, Brad ordered a piece of jewelry to attach to the necklace.

“The boy (Maddox) was passionate about war and guns. So for Mother’s Day, he drew a machine gun and Brad turned it into a necklace, which was so sweet. It’s really cute,” the actress shared.

Daily Mail quoted a source in France revealing that Angelina and Brad allow the children to control everything.

Angelina and Brad give their children freedom to develop.

For a time, Maddox liked to speak French. The whole family complied, although except for Angelina and Pax Thien , the rest struggled with the language. Meanwhile, Shiloh once asked everyone to call him John. The girl cut her hair short and wore boy’s clothes.

A former nanny said the children insisted on eating things like pizza or chocolate for breakfast. They also like a diet full of snacks, especially Cheetos.

A source told Daily Mail the Jolie-Pitt family has about 6-9 nannies. Each person is in charge of one child, but must rotate every 6 months to prevent emotional attachments from forming.

When Shiloh was 3 and Zahara was about 5, the sisters carried blankets everywhere they went. During a visit to the grocery store, the paparazzi captured the moment the children were wearing cotton blankets.

Relationships on unstable foundations

The person who laid the foundation for the Jolie-Pitt family was Angelina. In 2002, when she went to Cambodia to film Tomb Raider , she decided she wanted to adopt a local orphan. At that time, his second marriage to Billy Bob Thornton was about to end. She once said that the day Maddox was welcomed home was also the time she and her husband separated.

When Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston announced that they were “going their separate ways”, Angelina was spotted playing with her son in Central Park (New York) – an image of motherly love.

However, Angelina’s father, Jon Voight, does not support his daughter’s return as a great mother. He pleaded with his daughter to seek psychological help when she adopted Maddox. He also bluntly declared: “She has never been normal.”

Angelina was separated from her father from a young age and was mainly raised by her mother. Photo: Shutterstock.

Angelina had a hard time dealing with her parents not living together. Since then, the relationship with the famous father has become awkward. She couldn’t bear the fact that her father was unfaithful to her mother.

“My mother was in a lot of pain. My father had an affair and then faced many challenges in alimony and child support,” the Without Blood director shared on the Guardian in 2021.

The beauty spent many years watching her father from afar. In 2017, she told The Hollywood Reporter that she did not feel close to her father, instead thinking of herself as just her mother’s child.

This lack of love as a child is said to be the cause of Angelina’s later rebellion. Angelina developed sexually early. She brought her boyfriend home when she was 14 years old. She even tried drugs.

In the book Brangelina: The Untold Story of Brad Pitt and Angelina (2009), writer Ian Halperin said that the 7X beauty was taken to see a psychotherapist at school and received a diagnosis of personality disorder. anti-social way. This disorder is characterized by a lack of empathy, sexual attraction, violence, psychological manipulation, and aggressive behavior.

In fact, Angelina used to self-harm. She said in the press that she has a knife collection and always has this item around. She cut her hand. The pain made her feel alive, liberated, and “somehow it had a therapeutic effect on me.”

In 1999, Angelina’s mother was diagnosed with breast cancer. Eight years after the brutal war, she died at the age of 56.

During this process, Angelina decided to become a mother. She in turn adopted Maddox, Zahara and Pax Thien. This experience seems to be a preparation step to help the actress cope with the pain of losing her mother.

However, she is conflicted about having her own children and adopting them. In a 2005 interview, she shared, “Having a child of my own makes me feel like there’s a child out there who doesn’t have a home because I chose to have a child.”

When entering the Jolie-Pitt family, Brad did not have a complicated life story like Angelina. However, his legacy is not so glorious when he is labeled an unfaithful man.

A family built from an unstable foundation really makes others feel afraid when looking at it.

Brad Pitt ended his marriage with Jennifer Aniston in a noisy manner. Photo: Getty Images.

Heaven becomes hell

For work reasons, the Jolie-Pitt family spent many years traveling around the world. They simultaneously settled in America and France, calling countless hotels their temporary residence.

Jolie once rented an apartment at a hotel in Los Angeles even though the couple both had real estate in Hollywood. At that time, the American press said that the actress asked to stay in the room she booked for her mother when she was sick and often went there to cry.

Meanwhile, Brad struggles to manage the relationship and focus on the issue. He drank a lot of alcohol and many times woke up drunk from the night before. His friend, director Quentin Tarantino, once hinted at Brad’s smoking habit – something Angelina did not agree with.

Anna Kowalski, a hotel employee, said that Angelina and Brad had often slept in separate rooms since early 2010. They were like people who had nothing to do with each other. Angelina sat drinking alone in one bedroom, while Brad sipped beer in another room.

When her children grew up, the beauty realized her passion for charitable activities and took them along. Zahara and Shiloh were taken to Ethiopia to find a location to build a medical center, while Maddox went to Iraq to celebrate his birthday. The couple grew further apart.

In the final year of their marriage, Angelina’s older brother James moved in with the family, hired as the primary nanny for the six children.

According to Daily Mail sources , ignoring the controversial kiss on the Oscar red carpet in 2000, James is a great support for Angelina. However, this appearance caused tension that ended the marriage between Angelina and Brad.

James is said to be part of the reason why Angelina and Brad’s marriage came to an end. Photo: WireImage.

Insiders revealed that the relationship between his brother-in-law and brother-in-law was so sour that Brad once forced James to fly economy class while the other members sat in business class.

Some magazines also reported that the children even had the habit of calling James “father” in the summer of 2016. However, after his sister broke up with her husband, James also left, saying he was too tired.

The event on the private jet in September 2016 officially ended the decade-long love story of one of Hollywood’s most admired couples.

What followed was an eight-year long legal battle that still has no end. Since their parents divorced, the Jolie-Pitt children have had to undergo countless court-ordered psychotherapy treatments. They had to travel back and forth between their warring parents at each other’s homes in Los Angeles by private driver accompanied by security.