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In November 2015, a year after their wedding, Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt sat down with Tom Brokaw at the Sunset Tower Hotel in Los Angeles to promote their new film, a movie about a marriage falling apart. “If it was close to us at all, we could never make this film,” Jolie said. “We’re actually very, very stable, and these aren’t our issues.” Ten months later, she filed for divorce.

They had married in August 2014 at their French estate, Château Miraval, and her wedding veil was covered in drawings by their kids. Then they flew to Malta and shot By the Sea on their honeymoon. She wrote and directed it, credited as Angelina Jolie Pitt. Brokaw called theirs “one of the most secure marriages in Hollywood.”

In the video below, they joke about her trying to learn to cook (“she has no business in the kitchen”) and about what ten years together will do to a couple. Then it turns serious. In March 2015, while she was editing the film, her doctor called: another blood test showed possible signs of early ovarian cancer, the disease that killed her mother. Pitt was in France. “Angie called me and I got straight on a plane.” The surgeon who removed her ovaries was her mother’s old doctor, who had once promised her mother she’d look after her.

On September 14, 2016, the family was on a private jet flying from France to Los Angeles. Five days later, Jolie filed for divorce. The FBI looked into what happened on that flight and filed no charges. The divorce took eight years, and several of their children have since dropped Pitt’s name.

But watch Pitt while she talks. He says seeing his wife have to be her strongest was “terribly moving,” that there was “no vanity” in how she faced it, that whatever had to be done to keep the family together “as long as possible” would be done. And she says he made it clear what a woman meant to him: someone smart and capable who cared about her family, not a body. “My husband wasn’t going to let that happen.”

Was that the look of a man still completely in love, or a man trying hard to keep something together that was already slipping away?

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In June 2005, Diane Sawyer asked Brad Pitt the question Hollywood had been waiting for: “Did Angelina Jolie break up your marriage?”

He said no. Then he laughed and turned the question into a game show joke.

Five months earlier, Pitt and Jennifer Aniston had announced their separation. They had been together for seven years. Their divorce wasn't even final yet.

But photographs had already surfaced of Brad, Angelina, and her son Maddox on a beach in Kenya.

Mr. & Mrs. Smith was about to hit theaters. The movie that brought Pitt and Jolie together told the story of a married couple hiding entire lives from each other.

In the video below, Sawyer asks whether he and Angelina are officially together.

Pitt doesn't say yes. He says he doesn't know what the future holds.

She asks about the ring he's wearing. Tabloids claim Jolie gave it to him. Brad insists it was a freebie from a photo shoot.

Then Sawyer brings up the way the tabloids portray him. A man having a midlife crisis. Angelina cast as the woman who destroyed his marriage.

“I know my truth,” Pitt says.

At 41, he tells her he sees no need to defend himself.

He refuses to clear up the rumors. He wants to keep something of his private life for himself.

Pitt and Jolie went on to raise six children together. They married in 2014. But in September 2016, Jolie filed for divorce. Their divorce settlement came in December 2024.

Back in 2005, Pitt insisted he knew his truth.

Brad said he knew his truth. But if Angelina didn't break up his marriage, why did his next chapter begin with her?

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@starboyhamzyy Honestly, who knows? Maybe they would’ve lasted, but I think if a marriage is meant to end, it eventually will, with or without a third person

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In June 2005, Diane Sawyer asked Brad Pitt the question Hollywood had been waiting for: “Did Angelina Jolie break up your marriage?”

He said no. Then he laughed and turned the question into a game show joke.

Five months earlier, Pitt and Jennifer Aniston had announced their separation. They had been together for seven years. Their divorce wasn't even final yet.

But photographs had already surfaced of Brad, Angelina, and her son Maddox on a beach in Kenya.

Mr. & Mrs. Smith was about to hit theaters. The movie that brought Pitt and Jolie together told the story of a married couple hiding entire lives from each other.

In the video below, Sawyer asks whether he and Angelina are officially together.

Pitt doesn't say yes. He says he doesn't know what the future holds.

She asks about the ring he's wearing. Tabloids claim Jolie gave it to him. Brad insists it was a freebie from a photo shoot.

Then Sawyer brings up the way the tabloids portray him. A man having a midlife crisis. Angelina cast as the woman who destroyed his marriage.

“I know my truth,” Pitt says.

At 41, he tells her he sees no need to defend himself.

He refuses to clear up the rumors. He wants to keep something of his private life for himself.

Pitt and Jolie went on to raise six children together. They married in 2014. But in September 2016, Jolie filed for divorce. Their divorce settlement came in December 2024.

Back in 2005, Pitt insisted he knew his truth.

Brad said he knew his truth. But if Angelina didn't break up his marriage, why did his next chapter begin with her?

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It’s pretty amazing that Brad Pitt was so much better looking than his wife that he’s still too good looking for her in his 60’s with her in her prime.

It’ only took being an old man to finally find a woman to be on par with him in looks.

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@Ta6764Kris You can have your own perspective, but that doesn’t change the facts. People just see things differently when it suits them

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@montoya99 Angelina didn’t make vows to Jennifer, Brad did. He was a grown man who made his own choices, and people seem to forget that

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@ChicagoBeckyP He had a good thing with Jennifer and threw it away. At the end of the day, he made his own choices

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@LyndaAddy Exactly. People love blaming Angelina, but Brad was the one who made vows to Jennifer. He made his own choices

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@Charlenejules2 Funny how life has a way of coming full circle. What goes around comes around, i guess

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@Elainie The timing of it all definitely didn’t help her image, but Brad was married too. He wasn’t exactly innocent in all of this

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@Faberkat Maybe the grass wasn’t greener after all. So much drama for something that probably felt exciting at first

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@softarox Crazy how the divorce dragged on for so much longer than the marriage itself

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@MadGenX1979 I think Jennifer choosing peace after everything says a lot about her. But Brad and Angelina in the same room? That would be a whole different story

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In January 2004, Jennifer Aniston told Diane Sawyer she couldn’t imagine being with any other human being. That same month, Brad Pitt started filming Mr. & Mrs. Smith with Angelina Jolie.

Friends was weeks from its final taping. Aniston had just topped Forbes’ list of the most powerful stars in Hollywood. She and Pitt had moved into a 12,000-square-foot house he redesigned himself. Her own mother wasn’t invited to the wedding.

In the video below, Sawyer plays her an old clip of Pitt talking about love. “If you find yourself going another way… be honest. Otherwise you’re better off alone.”

Aniston laughs off the tabloids. Read the magazines, she jokes, and you’d think “we were divorced and moving into different homes.”

“I married him because he was the love of my life.”

Then she talks about kids. After Friends, she says.

Less than a year later, on January 7, 2005, they announced their separation. The divorce was final that October. Pitt went on to raise six children — with Jolie.

So who was more honest in this video: Jennifer, or the old clip of Brad?

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@whatasheila Brad was a grown man making his own decisions. Whatever happened, blaming Angelina for everything gives him way too much of a free pass

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@Visenyaaegon1 The whole situation was messy, but wishing unhappiness on Angelina doesn't make what happened to Jennifer any better

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@NaomiSky_15 agree

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@BreakTheMatrix6 He definitely has the looks and charm, but the genius part might be up for debate

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@CLAYLAVLS She really does come across as sweet and genuine here. Makes the whole thing even sadder knowing how it ended

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In January 2004, Jennifer Aniston told Diane Sawyer she couldn’t imagine being with any other human being. That same month, Brad Pitt started filming Mr. & Mrs. Smith with Angelina Jolie.

Friends was weeks from its final taping. Aniston had just topped Forbes’ list of the most powerful stars in Hollywood. She and Pitt had moved into a 12,000-square-foot house he redesigned himself. Her own mother wasn’t invited to the wedding.

In the video below, Sawyer plays her an old clip of Pitt talking about love. “If you find yourself going another way… be honest. Otherwise you’re better off alone.”

Aniston laughs off the tabloids. Read the magazines, she jokes, and you’d think “we were divorced and moving into different homes.”

“I married him because he was the love of my life.”

Then she talks about kids. After Friends, she says.

Less than a year later, on January 7, 2005, they announced their separation. The divorce was final that October. Pitt went on to raise six children — with Jolie.

So who was more honest in this video: Jennifer, or the old clip of Brad?