'I wasn't living an interesting life': Brad Pitt's uncensored account of his marriage to Jennifer Aniston

By Debbie Emery


Big smile, biting words: Brad Pitt gives himself two thumbs up as he slams ex-wife Jennifer Aniston in an interview with America's Parade magazine


Soon after Jennifer Aniston split from Brad Pitt, she pointedly said he was missing a 'sensitivity chip'.

And it seems she might be right.

The actor has given a stinging account of his 'pathetic' life and miserable marriage to the former Friends star in an uncensored interview with U.S. magazine Parade.

He also gushes about Angelina Jolie, saying that one of the 'smartest things' he ever did was to make her the mother of his children.


The 47-year-old, who is promoting his new film Moneyball, told the publication: 'I spent the '90s trying to hide out, trying to duck the full celebrity cacophony.

'I started to get sick of myself sitting on a couch, holding a joint, hiding out. It started feeling pathetic.

'It became very clear to me that I was intent on trying to find a movie about an interesting life, but I wasn't living an interesting life myself.'

Pitt then makes further scathing comments about his personal life.

An uninteresting life: Brad with Jennifer Aniston at the Cannes Film Festival in May 2004 and right, with the new and exciting love Angelina Jolie earlier this year


He says: 'I think that my marriage had something to do with it. Trying to pretend the marriage was something that it wasn't.'

Pitt married Aniston, 41, in 2000 after dating the former Friends star in the 1990s.
They split five years later soon after he filmed Mr and Mrs Smith with Jolie, 36.

Revealing interview: Pitt appears on the cover of Parade and inside describes his life in the Nineties as 'pathetic'


Since then the couple have gone on to have six children, three of whom they adopted.

Pitt continued: 'One of the greatest, smartest things I ever did was give my kids Angie as their mom. She is such a great mom. Oh, man, I’m so happy to have her.'

The comments cut rather close to the bone, considering Jennifer, 41, has made no secret of her desire to be a mother.

In contrast to his life in the 1990s, Pitt says he is now very content.

'I put much more emphasis on being a satisfied man. I’m satisfied with making true choices and finding the woman I love, Angie, and building a family that I love so much.

'A family is a risky venture, because the greater the love, the greater the loss. That’s the trade-off. But I’ll take it all.'

As the interview progressed, he opened up about raising his family of six with Angelina.

'I was surprised at how automatic it is, how much of it is instinctual. And now I have a great confidence and trust in those instincts. I mean, one sound at night and you’re awake and up because they may need you.

'Or when they start to have a tantrum, you know to divert them from spinning out by helping them focus on something. It just goes on and on. I tell them, “You can make a mess, but you’ve got to clean it up.'

Willing to dish to the press about secrets of his first marriage, the actor, who is currently filming World War Z, is far less happy when the press intrudes on his current private life.

'I mean, how many stories have you read that aren’t true, stories about me and Angie being married or fighting or splitting up? And when we don’t split up, there’s a whole new round that we’ve made up and we’re back together again!' he explained.

Family ties: Brad, Angelina and their six children were recently in London while he filmed World War Z


'We’ll get married when everyone can. We’re not splitting up. And we don’t have a seventh child yet.'

Pitt's comments were made during his promotional tour for Moneyball, which opens in the U.S. on September 23.

The comments will no doubt come as a blow to Aniston, whose mother, Nancy, 75, suffered a stroke at the weekend and remains in a critical condition in a Los Angeles hospital.

A distraught Jennifer, who was pictured with her new boyfriend Justin Theroux in Beverly Hills on Saturday, was in tears during a recent visit to the hospital to see her mother, with whom she was estranged for many years but finally reconciled with in 2008.


Tough week: Jennifer and Justin had an emotional trip to the hospital on Saturday to visit her mother, Nancy, following her stroke


source:dailymail