I posted Brad Pitt’s Parade Magazine interview and the unanimous reaction from you guys was that Pitt should stick to his inside voice when it comes to Jennifer Aniston. Pitt described his marriage to Aniston using a series of clumsy words like ‘pathetic,’ not interesting,’ and ‘pretend.’ He pretty much threw her and their whole half-decade marriage under the bus. Aniston has done the same to him, over and over, basically mocking him and/ or shilling their marriage that ended six years ago. The first notable time Pitt does the same he’s backed into a corner and we get some kind of retraction. I’m reading this as a retraction anyway. He told Parade, ‘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. I think that my marriage had something to do with it. Trying to pretend the marriage was something that it wasn’t.’ Today, he issued a statement, ‘It grieves me that this was interpreted this way. Jen is an incredibly giving, loving, and hilarious woman who remains my friend. It is an important relationship I value greatly. The point I was trying to make is not that Jen was dull, but that I was becoming dull to myself and that, I am responsible for.’
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