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EVERY Six Months Jolie reiterates accusations against Pitt
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Anonymous
Pitt is a marginally talented actor himself, who would never have built a career if not for his looks. Jolie isn't crazy, she has all the issues that should be expected of a woman whose father was a drunken adulterer, wife and child abuser, including sadly the propensity to pick similarly crappy men for adult intimate relationships. Since she kicked Brad to the curb, she has put her children first and not had much if any social life, nor dated or entered into any new relationships - I admire that, because very few divorced parents put such a focus on their kids above themselves. She is clearly really concerned about helping her kids process and heal from having a drug and alcohol addicted parent who abused them and their mother, because she knows the lifelong pain that kind of 'fathering' inflicts on kids. I'm not a big fan or even a small fan of Jolie, except of her humanitarian work. While I find the white savior thing a bit distasteful, I admire her for adopting so many kids whose lives would have been far less comfortable and offered much less opportunity if they'd grown up in the circumstances into which they were born. I will also add that having done a lot of family law work, I do not buy into the notion that Jolie has alienated her kids from Pitt - alcoholic druggie fathers who check out from parenting and engage in physical violence with their wives and kids do the alienating for themselves. She should not be expected to keep his secrets, nor to fix the problems he created by his own behavior - behavior, by the way, which by his own admission far preceded his involvement with Jolie, he was drugged out and checked out of his marriage to Aniston, too. |
Anonymous
Nah, she's crazy. Everyone knows. |
Anonymous
Indeed. It's so clear to me that posters on DCUM tend to criticize women the most in a celebrity break-up, and women politicians, and any women in the limelight (think British Royal Family). Women holding other women to higher standards than men is as old as humanity and a terribly damaging sort of misogyny. Women don't have to be perfect and blameless to be given some grace, nasty posters! They don't need to turn the other cheek all the time while men get away with outrageous behavior that is normalized "because they're men, and behave that way"! Jolie has a very high IQ and is a challenging person to live with, but that doesn't mean she should get more blame than her ex-husband in this, and any situation. Pitt has skated through life on his good looks and star quality, has never behaved well towards any of his wives, and has well-known addiction and anger issues. Come on, people. |
Anonymous
I think most of her friends aren't really famous or arent in the acting crowd. She didn't really work while she was with Brad either. I don't think she's ever been into acting as much as he has. I do think your theory about wild child's becoming homebodies probably has some truth. It makes sense |
Anonymous
I’m confident my wild child theory is true. I know so many of these women IRL: they either died young (drugs/drinking) or prematurely became very old lady-homebodies (usually in their 40s, definitely by early 50s). They go on health kicks (recognizing the damage they already did to their bodies) and dramatically change their behavior/fashion/activities. But all the underlying issues that prompted them to party too hard (among other things) are still there. They are in therapy and medicated. But they still struggle. Jolie is not well. She’s always been unstable. When you are young and hot and hyper sexual, it’s fun! When you are older, in therapy, medicated, etc. you are a bit dull with bouts of depression and belligerence. |
Anonymous
This is incorrect. He has looks and charisma and is also a skilled actor. It doesn't hurt anything to acknowledge it. |
Anonymous
Sorry, home wreckers reap what they sow. She's no friend to other women. |
Anonymous
| At some point you have to try and let things go and forgive. He is sober for years. Jen Anniston saw zero signs of abuse and abusive men tend to hurt women in every relationship. Was it a good marriage well no and it started on cheating which is a horrible foundation. I am sure both are difficult but the continual bad mouthing is not good for their kids. |
Anonymous
| When you go and cheat with someone else's husband, break up the marriage, you can't claim later he's a bad guy and husband. |
Anonymous
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https://www.glamourmagazine.co.uk/article/angelina-jolie-mental-health-children
Jolie has been open about her significant mental health issues. She’s admitted to attempting suicide. Are you people not old enough to remember how she behaved in public in her 20s? Remember all the stories? You don’t just magically become perfectly mentally stable after her history. |
Anonymous
Brad also has talked about having some mental health issues as well. There 2 unhealthy people that should have gotten therapy |
Anonymous
This. When I first heard about the alleged assault and divorce, I admit I thought she was trying to play PR. However, the FBI report of what happened on the plane was pretty damning. The description of Pitt’s behavior was disgusting, and if I were one of his kids I’d be terrified. I definitely would not be interested in spending time with him, especially if he was publically denying anything happened. His PR team has been working overtime and has largely convinced the public that the FBI said Jolie was lying. In fact the anonymous lawsuit she filed was to find out why the DOJ dismissed the case after a closed door meeting, if an FBI agent filed a statement of probable cause (ie that he was in fact guilty). Valid question from an abuse victim. Consider the situation both ways. If Pitt is telling the truth, what is there for Jolie to gain from dragging out the divorce and why would her kids stand by her and not him? If Jolie is telling the truth, is she behaving in a way consistent with an abuse victim? I don’t particularly like her, but I suspect she is telling the truth - her behavior is consistent with an abuse victim who wants to see the perpetrator held accountable. I also don’t think Brad Pitt remaining in Hollywood is a strong argument either way - look how long Harvey Weinstein lasted. Unfortunately, America isn’t quick to cancel women and slow to cancel men - and quick to forget and welcome them back. |
Anonymous
The FBI report wasn't damning. They had a fight and did it like Hollywood superstars, rather than like normal people. She started her career as a crazy girl and grew up to be a crazy woman. That is what most of us think of her first, when we think of her. Then she wrecked some marriages and adopted a baby from every continent (at the time, foreign adoptions were not viewed negatively but her tacky adoptions were obviously about her rather than about children or family). And when they broke up, she tried and tried to smear Brad but failed - partly because yes as a society we blame women but also because he is sympathetic and she is not. Not then, not now. |
Anonymous
And, with menopause, quite the opposite. Usually the mental health issues get much, much worse and harder to hide. |
Anonymous
Has anyone here argued that Angelina Jolie is perfectly mentally stable? |