Juliette Lewi was only seventeen years old when she fell in love with twenty-seven-year-old Brad Pitt.
Their romance took the world by storm back in the 1990s, and they quickly became one of Hollywood's hottest couples.
They were inseparable from the start and seemed to have everything going for them.
Despite having broken up almost two decades ago, Juliette is still questioned about their three-year relationship.
Meanwhile, Pitt went on to describe their romance as one of his "greatest relationships."
Juliette Lewis and Brad Pitt met on the set of the film, 'Too Young to Die,' back in 1990.
That’s one of the greatest moments of my life. Yeah…
At the time, Juliette was just seventeen years old, and Brad was twenty-seven. Despite their ten-year age difference, the pair hit things off almost immediately.
There were some that thought that Juliette may have been too young for such a serious relationship with someone who was a decade her senior.
However, the new couple didn't let the public's opinion get in the way of their budding romance. What's more, Juliette wasn't just an average seventeen-year-old.
She had already been through a lot in her life and was forced to grow up pretty quickly in her teen years.
Her parents divorced when she was just two years old. Since her father, actor Geoffrey Lewis, was in the film industry,
Well, my dad is a character actor, so that was my whole introduction to movies
Juliette used to spend a lot of time on film sets when she was a young child.
Much of her childhood involved going back and forth to spend time with both of her parents, which resulted in young Lewis experiencing a lot of instability while growing up.
Juliette knew she wanted to follow in her father's footsteps and become an actress.
However, she felt like being in school was preventing her from being able to dedicate herself fully to her dream.
While she was able to book some small roles, she wanted to be able to do more.
Lewis then decided to drop out of school and become emancipated from her parents at just fifteen years old so that she could focus all of her time on her career.
After that, she took on roles in projects like, 'The Wonder Years,' 'National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation' and 'My Stepmother Is An Alien.'
While her career started to gain traction, Juliette admitted that she struggled with her identity and sense of self after being exposed to Hollywood at such a young age.
The actress confessed that she would often test her own boundaries by spending time with dangerous people and deliberately putting herself in situations that were "not healthy."
So by the time Juliette and Brad crossed paths, she had already done a lot of growing up, although admittedly, she knew she had a lot more to learn.
At the start of their relationship, the pair were still fairly new to the big Hollywood scene.
After working together on 'Too Young To Die,' they connected over their love for acting and were able to support one another as their lives became thrown into the spotlight.
During an interview, Lewis gushed,
Juliette and Brad had no intentions of slowing down their romance, and it didn't take long for them to move in together.
The couple was virtually inseparable and couldn't get enough of each other. The media couldn't get enough of their relationship either.
At 19, I was wrapped up in my first love, and you know, I was very 19.
Throughout their relationship, as their careers gained more traction, so did the press frenzy around their romance.
The couple was constantly followed by the paparazzi and were being photographed wherever they went.
Juliette and Brad did their best not to let the press get in the way of their relationship.
Despite the media's obsession at the time, the couple were blissfully happy together and simply wanted to enjoy each other's company.
They were thrilled to be cast opposite each other once again in the 1993 film, 'Kalifornia.'
Brad was excited to have another opportunity to work with Juliette, saying,
The film was also an excuse for the couple to spend even more time together.
Sadly, their relationship didn't last much longer after they finished filming 'Kalifornia' and the couple announced their split in 1993.
Lewis's publicist shared that the former couple planned on "remaining friends."
Despite their plan to remain friends, Lewis and Pitt drifted apart.
The actress was next linked to Johnny Depp, her co-star in the 1993 film, 'What's Eating Gilbert Grape.' However, their romance was brief.
Meanwhile, Pitt moved on to date Gwyneth Paltrow in 1994, even though he admitted that he wasn't really over Lewis.
In a 1995 interview with Vanity Fair, Brad shared,
However, neither Pitt nor Lewis ever really shared the reasons for their breakup.
Perhaps their ten-year age difference somehow played a part in Juliette being so young, or maybe media attention around their relationship just became too much.
Following her split from Pitt, Juliette entered a dark period in her life and struggled with substаncе аbusе.
At twenty-two years old, she decided to enter a rehab program and has maintained a life of sobriety ever since.
Lewis credited her recovery with helping her find peace and stability in her life.
In 1999, she went on to marry professional skateboarder Steve Berra.
Not much is known about their time together, and the couple eventually divorced in 2003 after only four years of marriage.
It was around this time that Juliette decided to take a step back from acting and focus on her music career.
I wanted to discover who I was as a songwriter, as a live performer…
And you can’t do that part-time
You cannot do that part-time, especially the rock and roll I do
She launched the rock band 'Juliette and the Licks' and did her best to prioritize her mental health away from the spotlight of Hollywood.
It's no surprise that over the years, Juliette has very often been questioned about her relationship with Brad and their subsequent breakup.
She said that "it amazes" her "that people are still fascinated" by their three-year romance.
"I was a teenager at the time. It's a lifetime away. I was in my high school years, and it was a wonderful, loving relationship with a fun, smart guy.
Then it was over, and he went on to become incredibly famous."
In 2009, she commented that the only reason people approached her inquiring about him was because of his superstar status.
Juliette explained,
Juliette said that she was often irritated by the fact that the press coverage about her was "usually about Brad Pitt or drug addiction.
Despite their split, the former couple has never said anything negative about their time together. If anything, they look back at their romance fondly.
Although they shared such an important time in their lives together and bonded over their new-found fame in Hollywood, Lewis admitted that
She described Brad as "a very stand-up, good guy."
Looking back at their romance, she feels like it was
However, Juliette admitted that it felt odd having lost contact with Brad after everything that they had experienced together.
After all these years, Juliette has nothing but respect for Brad and wants only the best for him.
While we can't help but wonder how things would have turned out if they had stayed together,
at least we know that they made a positive impact on each other's lives and the break up wasn't nasty.
There's no doubt that the 90s was a time for epic Hollywood romances,
and we won't be forgetting Brad and Juliette's love story anytime soon!