Sheldon Cooper sarcastic voice: Let’s focus on this, since there is so little happening in the world this week.
All sarcasm aside, I do think it’s a bit sad, the same as it is when any long (ish)relationship ends and kids are involved. Also, considering Angelina’s saintly persona (not being snarky, just couldn’t think of a better word) how much do you have to fuck up for her to not even want there to be shared custody? That would seem to indicate that Brad has some serious problems and that in itself is a shame. No more or less sad than when it happens to the average Joe, it’s just that we don’t tend to hear about the average Joe’s domestic problems.
Married about 5 years, no children.
…they weren’t on a ‘break’?
12 years of a Hollywood marriage is like 50 years of a civilian marriage. I think it went on far longer than anyone expected it to. (And I think the sainted ‘Jen’ will also be divorced far sooner than anyone expects it to.)
I can multi-task.
A bit of a sidetrack and probably a stupid question but when these things happen the article often starts with “it was announced” or “per so-and-so’s rep”. Why would someone announce it? No doubt it would end up getting out eventually but why volunteer the info? Maybe it’s just me but Brangelina seem to have been laying pretty low for a while. Could they really not have started these proceedings without letting the public know from the get go?
A celebrity divorce can be as much of a PR battle as a legal one. It’s better to stay ahead of the media narrative instead of letting it control you, especially when custody is involved. Announcing it yourself also allows you to prepare for the media onslaught.
Many couples will issue a joint statement, but that’s not what happened here. Pitt seemed pretty blindsided.
Close. Celebrity marriage years are the same as dog years. If a celebrity is married for one year, it’s the same as if a dog has been married for seven years.
Correction to my post - they’d only been married two years. Together 12 years, total. Marriage causes divorce!
I’ve noticed this phenomenon even amongst the plebians. In my own family, two couples who lived in unwedded bliss for ages split up within two years of making it legal. One of them had a big honkin’ expensive wedding, not even paid for, before they split.
This always pisses me off - the only person any spouse can expect loyalty from is their spouse.
No one convinces someone to leave their partner/or cheat. In this case he is a big boy and has done that on his own.
Right, the news was going to come out no matter what, so might as well announce it and get out ahead of it. If it was amicable there would be a joint statement, but since it appears Pitt did something bad regarding parenting or was cheating, Jolie was ahead in the game. From what I’d read, Jolie had been doing more of the public relations stuff for the two of them for years, so now Pitt is behind on PR strategy.
I don’t know what the case is here, but I’d guess for many marriages like that, there was probably was some problem with the relationship that they thought could be fixed by getting married. Then after a year or two they realize that the problem still is there and getting married didn’t fix it so then they divorce.
In this case, it looks like Jolie did file for divorce a few days before the news broke. The court documents are linked in the cnn article in the OP, so I assume those are public information.
These things become public knowledge as soon as the documents are filed. So celebs can’t exactly hide, getting out in front of it probably helps control the speculation too!
Cotillard denies that there was an affair (and is angry that she is being pushed into this news story).
IIRC, Jolie & Pitt waited to marry until same-sex marriage became legal.
Nope, they married a year before the Obergefell decision. I think they even said it was something their kids wanted more than they did.
I’m not saying it was Jolie’s fault that Pitt had an affair. That was obviously Pitt’s fault.
But Jolie chose to enter a relationship with Pitt, knowing right from the start that he was somebody who was willing to have extramarital affairs.
I agree.
I was always indifferent to St. Angelina, but I took a dislike to her during the period of time they were still denying their affair - not so much that, but the comments she made about Pitt’s marriage during that time. I don’t remember the exact words, but it was about how she was so sorry for poor Brad, he wanted to have a family but was being constrained from that, it was so so sad for poor Brad. I can only imagine how that made his wife feel. I don’t follow the details of St. Angelina’s life closely but I understand she has done a lot of humanitarian work, and kudos to her for that. But I will never like her or Brad. I do feel bad for all those kids though. I hope this whole thing is not too much of a shitstorm, for their sake.
There are rumors that their parenting differences relate specifically to one child who may be transgender, and how to handle it. Grain of salt and all that.