angelina jolie and brad pitt broke
hearts the world over when jolie filed
for divorce in september 2016
asking for sole custody of their six
kids what happened to upend this
hollywood power couple
here are a few reasons why brangelina
may have fallen apart
you know the story by now in 2003 brad
pitt who is then married to friends
favorite jennifer aniston
signed on to star in mr and mrs smith
originally nicole kidman was set to play
opposite the blonde hunk but according
to entertainment weekly pitt reportedly
didn't feel enough chemistry with her
and dropped out of the film kidman
continued on with stepford wives
as the herald sun reported immediately
after producer arnon milchin cast jolie
as the female lead
pitt called him back to say he was happy
to play mister to her misses
filming began in january 2004 and just
months later
rumors began to swirl that the pair was
hooking up so what do we do
in may 2004 pitt made an appearance with
then wife aniston at the troy premiere
possibly to quiet the tabloid chatter
that august paparazzi captured pitt and
jolie looking cozy
which mr and mrs smith insiders
dismissed as being in character
according to entertainment weekly later
that year pit vacationed with aniston
but by january 2005 they had announced
their separation
that march anniston filed for divorce
and in april 2005
pitt and jolie were photographed
vacationing with jolie's son
maddox the jolie aniston pit love
triangle blew up the tabloids
despite all parties denying that there
was any cheating involved pitt and jolie
had a hard time keeping their stories
straight
they both initially claimed nothing
happened until after pitt and aniston
divorced but in a 2007 vogue cover story
jolie made it clear that a deep
relationship had developed during mr and
mrs smith
when pitt was still married she claimed
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
for a long time the pair courted the
unrelenting media scrutiny
remember that infamous 2005 w magazine
spread that starred pitt and jolie as a
sexy married couple
and came out as pit and aniston were
falling apart it looks like the press
brangelina loved so much in the
beginning came back to bite them later
pit and jolie co-starred in 2015's by
the sea which may have been a case of
art imitating life
the film focused on a broken
relationship between an unhappy couple
stop stop i don't know what's happening
you don't understand stop but when they
were asked about it brangelina was quick
to deny any problems
jolie said on today in 2015 i'm counting
on the audience to know that if it was
close to us at all
we could never make this film it's
because we're actually very very stable
and these aren't our issues
jolie later told the daily mail that
throughout production
it was our way of testing ourselves we
knew that if we could get through this
we'd come out even stronger and happier
and we did we've always liked putting
ourselves through challenges even though
it was maybe a little more dangerous for
us as a couple
why do you think we failed because we
were leading seven lives
or was it all the line that did us in
page six reported that jolie and pitt
had very different priorities in life
she was said to be looking for
fulfillment outside of tinseltown while
he supposedly loved being hollywood's
golden boy
a source told the tab the older she gets
the more serious she becomes and she is
sick of the hollywood thing
he wants to make movies she doesn't it's
a fundamental difference
it's how you live your life i'm not here
because
i'm a director who wanted to make a
movie and so this country for me has
been a um
was my awakening but did jolie's quest
to serve the greater good of the world
damage her own family
another insider told page six ultimately
she almost got too comfortable acting as
a role model
she wasn't able to adapt to some of the
realities of her marriage and her life
she just assumed that people would
follow whatever she said including her
husband
and so when they had marital issues she
believed she could just bully him into
whatever she wanted
while pitt appeared to champion jolie's
efforts in the past he may have grown
skeptical over time
a source told radar online in 2018 brad
used to admire angie's humanitarian work
but is now more suspicious of her true
motivations
brad wasn't surprised that angie went to
iraq when he was with the kids for
father's day
sources also told us weekly that the
couple argued over politics
during the 2016 election season when
their split was announced
those heated political fights may have
intensified
jolie also admitted to marie claire that
she relied on pitt for adult
interactions outside of work
conversations claiming
i don't have a lot of friends i talk to
he is really the only person i talk to
perhaps she wanted pitt to join her in
an isolated bubble
radaronline claimed jolie resented his
friendships with other stars most
notably actor ed norton
a source alleged to the tab angelina has
always thought ed's a shallow
underachiever who brings out the
immature side of brad
and she's not impressed by his wife and
an insider told page six that jolie
supposedly envies the attention showered
on renowned human rights attorney amal
clooney the wife of pitt's bestie
george clooney meanwhile the friends
that jolie does have were suspected of
planting stories that smeared pitt in
the press according to page six
and speaking of smears the tab also
reported that pitt allegedly hooked up
with allied co-star marion coutillard
with an insider saying he was shacking
up with russian hookers as well
a source claimed he's in the throes of
some insane midlife crisis and angie's
fed up
she hired a private eye because she felt
he was fooling around with kotiard on
set
and it turns out he was kotiar denied
any affair with pitt addressing the
rumors on instagram in 2016 writing
firstly many years ago i met the man of
my life father of our son
and of the baby we are expecting he is
my love my best friend
the only one that i need finally i do
very much wish that angelina and brad
both whom i deeply respect will find
peace in this very tumultuous moment
nothing materialized from all that
tabloid dirt but the salacious headlines
likely added more strain to brangelina's
marriage
you have to just make the choices you
make in life i made the choices i made
because i believe they were right for me
when jolie was married to actor johnny
lee miller she reportedly cheated on him
with model jenny shimizu
whom she met on the set of 1996's fox
fire jolie then reportedly hooked up
with her second husband
billy bob thornton while he was in a
live-in relationship with actress laura
dern
durn told talk magazine i left our home
to work on a movie
and while i was away my boyfriend got
married and i've never heard from him
again considering jolie has also
described doing drugs and cutting with
former lovers via the daily mail perhaps
the relative stability of our marriage
to pitt grew boring to her
what's better when brad is working and
you're with the kids yes or when you're
working
with the kids when i'm home with the
kids insiders claim the biggest issue
jolie and pitt faced in their
relationship was their conflicting views
on parenting and considering their brood
of six children
that's a very big problem a source told
people their parenting approach was
always very different since their
separation it's been
obvious that they weren't going to
figure things out on their own when it
comes to the kids
a different source also told the
magazine brad has always been stricter
angelina always had a more relaxed
attitude when it came to the kids
but pitt told gq in 2017 that his
upbringing may have influenced his
parenting style
he said i grew up with the father being
all-powerful
super strong instead of really knowing
the man and his own self-doubt and
struggles
and it's hit me smack in the face with
our divorce but to each of their credit
jolie gave fit some props on good
morning america in 2017.
in the past you described brad often as
a wonderful father of course as part of
the family
do you still believe that of course of
course
but we will always be a family while
it's unclear exactly how pitt and jolie
differ on parenting
something definitely happened on a
private plane between pitt and their son
maddox that prompted jolie to file for
divorce and initiate a child protective
services investigation into pitt
tmc reported that pitt allegedly argued
with jolie during a private flight at
which point
maddox stepped between his parents to
defend his mother pitt was then accused
of lunging at maddox
us weekly reported that the fight was
sparked when a frustrated jolie urged
pitt to quote
sober up pitt was eventually cleared of
any wrongdoing or abuse allegations in
an la county department of children and
family services investigation
tmz also reported that jolie was fed up
with pitt's alleged marijuana and
alcohol abuse and its potential effects
on their kids
amidst reports that pitt was in
treatment for addiction and attending
aaa meetings he addressed its issues
head on telling gq in 2017.
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 i was boozing too much
it's just become a problem and i'm
really happy it's been half a year now
which is bittersweet
jolie famously battled heroin addiction
when she was younger and also allegedly
used cocaine according to radar online
being around someone who even
recreationally abuses substances can be
a potential trigger
so that could be why she pulled the plug
on their marriage the pit jolies
it's getting really nasty jolie and pitt
initially agreed to keep their divorce
proceedings private to protect their
kids
but custody negotiations got ugly in
2018
julie has maintained primary physical
custody but in june
2018 the blast reported that a judge
ordered julie to allow their children to
speak
and text with pitt without her
monitoring the conversations warning her
that alienating the kids from pitt
wasn't helping her case
jolie hired celebrity divorce attorney
laura wasser to represent her in 2016
but tmz reported in august 2018 that
wasser quit working for jolie because
the actress allegedly had frequent
screaming fits
a source claimed she's fueled with anger
and has gotten ridiculously unreasonable
court documents obtained by nbc news
revealed that jolie slammed pitt for
allegedly not paying quote any
meaningful child support
meanwhile pittskamp told page six that
he'd paid jolie nine million dollars
since their split
and accused jolie and her attorneys of
deliberately attempting to smear him
publicly
a source told radar online in november
2018
the longer this case drags on the more
determined angie is to prove she's the
parent who deserves the final say
on everything