Brad Pitt offered some rare, but reserved, insight into his personal life in a new profile for GQ.
Asked if he was relieved to close the chapter on the nearly decadelong drama, he told the magazine, “No, I don’t think it was that major of a thing.”
“Just something coming to fruition. Legally,” added Pitt, who shares six children with his ex.
While Pitt and Jolie separated back in 2016, their divorce turned into a prolonged drama which couldn’t evade public scrutiny.
Courts declared the former couple single in the eyes of the law in 2019, but disputes over their French vineyard, Chateau Miraval, and other shared property lingered.
Once those matters were finally settled late last year, Jolie’s lawyer, James Simon, told Page Six, “Frankly, Angelina is exhausted, but she is relieved this one part is over.”
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Though Pitt was forced to be the focus of media spectacle during the legal battle, the “Fight Club” actor told GQ he’s grown accustomed to the attention.
“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,” he said.
As GQ wondered if immersing himself in the high-octane world of “F1” offered some refuge from the tabloid fodder, Pitt told the magazine, “Um, I don’t see it that way.”
“It’s been an annoyance I’ve had to always deal with in different degrees, large and small, as I do the things I really want to do,” he went on. “So, it’s always been this kind of nagging time suck or waste of time, if you let it be that.”
“My life is fairly contained,” the veteran actor added. “It feels pretty warm and secure with my friends, with my loves, with my fam, with my knowledge of who I am, that, you know, it’s like this fly buzzing around a little bit.”
Though he’s tried to keep his personal life out of the spotlight in recent years, Pitt did offer some unexpected insight into his relationship with girlfriend Ines de Ramon, whom he had been linked to since around 2022.
Pressed to say if their public debut at the 2024 British Grand Prix was a strategic PR move, the actor laughed and said, “No, dude, it’s not that calculated.”
“If you’re living, oh my God, how exhausting would that be?” he said. “If you’re living with making those kinds of calculations? No, life just evolves. Relationships evolve.”
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