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A familiar tale: Brad Pitt felt ‘pathetic’ in marriage with Jennifer Aniston, became ‘satisfied man’ with Angelina Jolie

Where did we hear it recently? Oh, yeah, that's his story for Jolie now.

After the storm that was his divorce from Angelina Jolie, calling it an “annoyance.” Interestingly, once upon a time, he unabashedly shared similar sentiments about his marriage with Jennifer Aniston and called Jolie his savior.

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For more than a decade, while his romance with Jolie was at its peak, Pitt sat down for a chat with Parade Magazine and spoke at length about how “pathetic” his relationship and life with Aniston had become.

“I spent the ’90s trying to hide out. I started to get sick of myself sitting on a couch, holding a t, hiding out. It started feeling pathetic.”

He further added that his life wasn’t “interesting” anymore and the blamed rested on his marriage. “I think my marriage [to Aniston] had something to do with it: trying to pretend the marriage was something that it wasn’t,” he added.

But apparently, all those twisted feelings vanished when he found Jolie, who turned him into a “satisfied man” as she took him to the “next plateau” in life.

“I’m satisfied with making true choices and finding the woman I love, Angie, and building a family that I love so much,” he itted. At the time, Jolie was “a great mom” in his eyes, and he was practically gushing about having a partner like her in his life.

Well, all that changed soon. Jolie initially filed for divorce on Sept. 19, 2016, and they were legally declared single in April 2019. The final divorce settlement was finalized and legally signed off by a judge on December 30, 2024, officially bringing an end to the union. In the midst of the legal battle and even now, Pitt has faced shocking allegations of child and spousal abuse. While the accusations couldn’t be filed as criminal charges, his children practically denouncing their father and going as far as to drop his name has done little to exonerate him of the allegations.


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Apeksha is a Freelance Editor and Writer at We Got This Covered. She's a ionate content creator with years of experience and can cover anything under the sun. She identifies as a loyal Marvel junkie (while secretly re-binging Vampire Diaries for the zillionth time) and when she's not breaking her back typing on her laptop for hours, you can likely find her curled up on the couch with a murder mystery and her cat dozing on her lap.