Within an hour of TMZ’s bombshell that Brangelina Is Over, Page Six published a surprisingly dishy piece about how Angelina Jolie had hired a private investigator to look into her suspicions that Brad Pitt was cheating on her. Page Six alleged that the private investigator learned that Brad was screwing around with his then-costar Marion Cotillard, plus something about drugs, Russian hookers and a midlife crisis. Just as quickly as that story came out, TMZ had another exclusive. “Sources” insisted that no, there was no affair between Brad and Marion and that Angelina for-real filed for divorce because of the kids and because of Brad’s anger/substance abuse issues. Still, people continue to speculate about Brarion/Pittillard (EH?) because people are convinced that it would be “karma” for Angelina Jolie to have to deal with Brad’s infidelity.
So what does Marion think of all this? Well, she’s not saying anything on the record… yet. But sources are still being pretty chatty.
In the wake of Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie’s shocking split, speculation has surfaced about the actor’s relationship with costar Marion Cotillard. A source tells PEOPLE, however, that the pair’s breakup has nothing to do with Cotillard, who is starring with Pitt in the upcoming World War II drama Allied.
The Daily Mail went further, claiming that Marion is “absolutely devastated” that she’s being associated with the Brangelina Split.
Marion Cotillard is said to ‘absolutely devastated’ by claims that she is the scarlet woman in the break up of Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie. The 40-year-old French star is in a relationship with fellow actor Guillaume Canet, 43.
‘Marion and Guillaume are blissfully happy, and these kind of claims are not what Marion wants to be hearing,’ said a source close to Marion’s family in her home city of Paris.
‘Claims that she’s cheating on Guillaume with Brad will leave her absolutely devastated. This doesn’t sound like her at all.’
Cotillard gave birth to Marcel, five, while still working extremely hard at her career, but she has recently indicated that she wants a ‘quieter life’, said the source.
‘She enjoys her family time and wants to enjoy more of it,’ said the source. ‘All this fuss will be a huge shock to her.’
Do you believe it? Do you believe that Marion would never, ever cheat on Canet? Personally, I always believed that Marion hooked up with Michael Fassbender while they filmed Macbeth, so it’s not a stretch for me to believe that she hooked up with another costar. Maybe it’s just the stereotypes we have about French people and their non-traditional views on monogamy. C’est la vie.
Alternate theory: the Brangelina split is being used as guerilla marketing for Allied. Like, the same day that we learn that Angelina filed for divorce, they put out a new teaser trailer. The comments on this tweet are AMAZING.
Brad Pitt and Marion Cotillard star in #Allied. Watch a new look and see it in theatres November 23rd. pic.twitter.com/m2tAbcoy2u
— Allied Movie (@AlliedMovie) September 20, 2016
Last thing… the photos I’m using in this post are of Marion on September 15th. People were already saying that Marion has been looking pregnant, and after yesterday’s shenanigans, people said it’s possibly Brad Pitt’s baby. And here’s a late-breaking update: Marion has confirmed that she is in fact pregnant. The timeline, people. THE TIMELINE.
Photos courtesy of Fame/Flynet.
“Marion Cotillard ‘absolutely devastated’ by allegations she slept with Brad Pitt”
Why? He’s old but he’s not that gross.
Maybe cause she’s in love with her partner and she doesn’t like people speculating about their relationship.
Or speculating that she played a part in splitting up a family. But I think Soror Bro knows that.
Exactly freebunny.
I find it pretty appalling that people are making wild guesses as to who she may or may not have slept with when there’s very little actual real evidence
I thought that comment was a joke…
Of course. Also, the press and looney fans dragged Aniston into this.
Imagine your kids reading all that. Daily Fail has listed all their partners since they were teenagers. So gross.
I thought it was a joke too. I laughed.
Did you guys see Maxim’s tweet “introducing” us to Brad’s mistress Marion?!?! It was ridiculous! People rightfully tore them apart
LOL!
But she’s being accused of adultery and being a home wrecker. Also, yesterday ppl on this site claiming that she’s pregnant with BP’s baby. If she really is pregnant, imagine how devastating it is for her and her partner (the actual father of her baby) that everyone is saying this.
But that’s just it. If she was knocking boots with Brad while she was living with her partner, does she even know which of them is the actual father?
What a cluster-f**k. At least when Brad and Angie got together while he was still married to Aniston, Angie didn’t cheat on anyone because she was not in a relationship, and there were no children involved.
If someone were to falsely accuse me in the media of having an affair with another woman’s husband, I’d sue the socks off them. Is Cotillard taking legal action? If not, why not?
This standard of “if you don’t sue, it must be true” is unfair in my opinion. Lawsuits are not some walk in the park even if you have money, lawyers, etc. Secondly, now that this is out there, even if she were to sue and win the rumors would never fully go away. If there was no affair, this would be incredibly difficult to go through during pregnancy, given what a high profile couple Brangelina was. I could understand her being devastated at being talked about that way.
I think I hate the implication that any female actor that works with a ‘hunk’ must of course have been sleeping with him
i hate that that is the immediate assumption
mebbe she did find him grim
mebbe she fancies the knickers off him but remembered she was married, happily and in a family of her own
mebbe he is a stoner loser
I’d hate to be Marion atm – all the accusation and questioning over the paternity of her unborn child
We have quite the traditional view on monogamy, actually. It’s Just not a criteria to judge public people.
And yeah I believe Marion would cheat. Don’t they all?
I just saw a tweet calling poor Marion “Becky with the good hair”.
Sorry for all the kids involved, but happy for the gossip gods.
Yeap as a french (hello jean-pierre 🙂 ) i can say there are a lot of rumors that Marion and Guillaume are actually an “open-couple” so…
I don’t know why we’ve got this reputation 🙂 But it’s true that infidelity is not as big a deal in France as it seems to be in the US.
I always find it hard to believe but everyone knows that Hollywood sleeps around like crazy. But what a f*** coincidence that she’s pregnant now! Haha, poor Marion!
I think a lot of North American’s glamorize French living as cosmopolitan and more ‘open’.
People are people everywhere and I doubt they are much different across the pond.
*french style shrug
I believe Angie slept with her mothers husband or boyfriend when she was a teenager.
Based on what?
Oooooo, this story has got legs for days. I’m getting January Jones/ Matthew Vaughan vibes
If it happened, well, it did. I am a hardcore Brangeloonie, therefore I’m devastated. I’m divided, I can’t choose a side, but what I like is the ignorant comment that “how she got him, she lost him”. Google Heidy Bivens, lads and ladies.
You do know there are people that don’t care anything about Jen that are saying that, right?
Jennifer fans/supporters don’t care. They actually believe that their affair doesn’t matter because Justin and Heidi weren’t married. It’s really funny how they twist themselves to justify their relationship while condemning Brad and Angelina.
I’m not a Jennifer fan/supporter, but I agree with this line of thinking. I’m really not sure what’s sick and twisted about it when marriage is relationship insurance. People who dismiss marriage as just a piece of paper dismiss the legal pragmatism it provides. I would not yoke myself, my life, to a man I know for a fact is not committed to me on any level. Period.
I commented on another site about the gleeful karma crowing, and was emphatically told that lots of women have been cheated on and they’re all living out their revenge fantasies through Angelina “getting hers”.
What does Heidi Bivens have to do with Marion Cotillard maybe being pregnant by Pitt?
Jen and Justin will get theirs, re Heidi. It’s inevitable. Doesn’t change the fact that Brad and Angies was a long time coming. Every cheater should have their moment in the glaring heat of the sun, Branges has come. Its just a shame there are kids involved.
I just don’t know who or what to believe.
I guess we’ll see.
No one but them will ever know.
Truth! Everything people and media outlets are saying is pure speculation (except for the actual document). All of it is nothing more than speculation.
Part of me hopes they don’t say anything more on the matter and deal with the divorce with the same privacy they’ve lived their lives. That being said, I will read everything written about it on this site.
And that being said, while currently no one knows what happened or with whom, I don’t choose to speculate on way or another, but only in response to Soror Bro’s comment about no one ever knowing, I should think when Marion’s baby is born, people will know. Brad’s biological children are undeniably his. The man has some strong genes. Paparazzi are going to be fighting for pics of that baby if this isn’t resolved by the time s/he is born.
@Rachel, Google Marion’s son. He could pass for a Pitt and he clearly isn’t. I feel for her if the rumor is false, and hope the poor child will have jet black hair to save them from a lifetime of speculation.
Most likely it was a combination of factors which can all be wrapped up into one big heading: midlife crisis. Brad has been going through a midlife crisis of epic proportions and Angie is sick and tired of dealing with it. He wants to go back in a time machine to when he was Hollywood’s golden boy. For months now he’s been acting like a free agent, racing cars in Europe, hanging out on movie sets drinking and drugging and partying and maybe banging Cotillard or some other women in the downtime, and completely neglecting Angie and the kids. I think on that “romantic getaway” a couple of months ago she handed him an ultimatum: get your s**t together or get out. When she realized he had no intention of shaping up, she said enough is enough, I’m outa here. She has six children to raise and she doesn’t have the time, the patience or the inclination to deal with some man-child who refuses to get his act together and grow up.
I think Angelina put up with a LOT from him because of the kids. Thank God she finally got the fortitude to leave. Here’s to hoping she gets the peace of mind she needs to regain her health and happiness.
Well, there is a new report on Page Six today that says he still loves Angie and wanted to work their problems out and that’s why he was blindsided by the divorce announcement. I don’t know how reliable Page Six is as a source but I think he was definitely getting it on with Cotillard during the shoot. But the shoot wrapped four months ago and I haven’t read or heard that they have been seeing each other since then. According to the report, she’s still with her longtime partner.
I do hope that Brad didn’t cheat, but then again he did cheat on Jen.
When he & AJ got together, he had no kids, wanted them, & JA said repeatedly in interviews, including 1 I saw on NBC, that she wasnted to concentrate on her career & wouldn’t be ready for kids for a while. Having 6 kids & a family at risk would generally be a deterrent to cheating.
“All this fuss will be a huge shock to her.” “This doesn’t sound like Marion at all.” The claims will leave her absolutely devastated.”
That doesn’t sound like a source who really knows anything nor is the source speaking for her, saying, will be, doesn’t sound like, will leave. The source isn’t saying, she “is” devastated, all this fuss “is” a huge shock.
Marion is yet to make a statement or her rep for her. If something doesn’t come out from her today, it will be odd.
Yeah, I thought it sounded pretty speculative, too.
Plus Marion has a HUUUUUUGE history of cheating and getting with married men, à la January Jones:
– She cheated on her partner with Sinclair (famous pop singer) and broke up his 10 years relationship with Emma de Caunes…broking up their family since they had a 2years old girl…Only to cheat on him with a crew member on a movie just 9 month after that.
-While she didn’t steal Guillaume Canet from Diane Kruger (they were divorced for 2 years when they got together), he was in a steady relationship with another actress for more than a year when she decided their friendship was not one (word is on the street that she chased him for years . waaaaay before he and Diane separated and to this day Diane Krueger cannot stand her for that)
So “devastated” my ass… marion is a known cheater who never had set an eye on a guy who is not taken.
PS: as a french , no with have low tolerance as individuals for infidelity, but as a society it is not a stigma, meaning that a cheater won’t have to respond to society for his behavior as we consider it a private matter. But as individuals we can leave and divorce for this reason, and almost no one accept it.
Ha ha…I was waiting for you to weigh in on this because I always follow your comments about Marion.
Personally, I always loved her until I started reading your take, damn you. 😉
@Kitten: haha ;)… Well at least you know her more than the darling persona carefully crafted for the American audience!
but sorry Kitten to have tainted your liking. bisous 😉
@Truthful
THAT is some good background on Marion. I really only fell for her when she was in Midnight in Paris and knew nothing of her outside of that.
Angelina’s scortched earth approach combined with your recon/Intel DOES suggest Marion is carrying Pitts baby.
Non-traditional views on monogamy?????
Yeah, it’s well-known french women are easy and have the hots for eveything speaking english.
Really??? I know quite a lot of French women and they are nothing like how you’ve described.
I think Freebunny was sarcastic 🙂
As a French woman, this reputation kind of bother me but at the same time it makes me laugh.
Sarcasm.
Yeah, that stopped me short. I’m not French so by all means correct me if I’m wrong here, but it seems the French aren’t such sticklers for traditional matrimony as people in the US claim to be. However, commitment and monogamy are held in the same regard with or without marriage.
Well, Canet cheats on Cotillard with EVERY young thing that moves.
He’s absolutely notorious for it in Paris.
At equestrian events it’s not the horses he’s checking out. Trust
Considering how reckless, brazen & abusive he is about it I’m surprised she’s having another baby with him and has instead not gone Lorena Bobbitt on his self!
Ok, now you can go back on Tumblr.
I live in Paris and I seem to be the only one that has never heard a thing about Canet’s philandering ways. Does anybody have receipt ( French or English written) on this?
@fanny
I did a Masters at Sci Po and one of his many ‘ladies’ did the international course with me.
So much dough on Canet’s antics; as well as the (single) Pierre Sarkozy.
We go back for college reunions every other summer and the Canet stories are still as rampant as ever.
Not sure how much more I can say.
The poster Minxx can maybe give more info.
Don’t know anything at all about a Brad thing, but Canet is slime.
There’s no (serious) story about Guillaume cheating.
It’s just some fangirl who has a tumblr about how Guillaume is cheating on Marion with every women and being violent and abusive, yada, yada.
She just hates his guts and rants about him being not good enough for Marion.
And of course, people read it.
@Jegede I also heard about Jack Lang having a gay relationship with Philippe De Villiers.
As much as I think it’s funny and I want to believe it, I doubt it’s true.
@frebunny
Huh?
I don’t know anything about any tumblr or fan account or a Jack Lang. Dunno what you’re about.
@fanny
Got to log out 4 now, but I’ll check in later to see if the Minxx poster brings anymore dish.
I’m puzzled as well, I’ve never heard anything about Guillaume cheating on Marion…
@Jegede / Thank you for the infos. Huughhhhhhhh I used to think that he was so cute and down to earth. I have a friend in Sciences Po who did her 2nde (double?)masters with me at the Sorbonne so I will ask her about it. I swear the dating game in France and especially in Paris is RUTHLESS.
And w.r.t Jack Lang the “gay” rumours were kiddy games compared to the “Moroccan” rumours against which he had to defend himself a few years ago.
Thanks for the tea Jegede.
Freebunny, it’s remarkably easy to skip the posts, rather than to rudely dismiss posters to go to tumbr, or wherever, simply because you personally don’t like what been said on here about Guillame Canet. Especially long timers like Jegede et al.
Jack Lang is a french politician, super well-known for anyone studying in Scienes-Po, but whatever.
All I say is that when you live in Paris you hear tons of rumours, but you don’t have to believe them.
Yes but this is a gossip blog. Probably not the place for you if rumors disgust you.
@freebunny
And? Sciences Po is a huge school. I dunno all the profs or famous speakers at my Uni. Esp if I don’t take their course.
Secondly Sciences Po international students programs have very different professors.
Fact, cause we do exchange with them. Scholars acclaimed from Columbia, LSE e.tc and not only Jack Lang or at one time, Bernard Kouchner. Course programs like Jegedes ( I guess?) are even held in both English and French, unlike the main campus at St Germain De Pres, but whatever.
I personally don’t think there is any truth to the rumours at all.
I feel sorry for Marion. Being pregnant now and having people speculating what she did or did not do. I know it’s all gossip and supposed to be fun, but I can’t find it amusing.
No. If she’s innocent then this speculation is pretty appalling, especially as it seems to be based around her being in a film with him and doing her job (acting) by pretending to be in love with him.
What if she’s not innocent, and it’s Brad’s baby? What then?
@Lady D; I don’t know. But I never want to judge people having an affair. It happens. You never know what other people marriages are like or what are the circumstances in which people meet. Most of the time people compensate for something they’ve lost in their relationships. I’m really no expert here; I just don’t like how easily we are to judge or call another person a home wrecker; when in life none us know what the fact is. And I do imagine it would be hard on Marion if none of this is true. And if it is; I still can’t judge. I wouldn’t ever want to be in a position of a cheater or cheated, and wouldn’t want it on anyone; but these are complex situations and there is never one person responsible. I dunno.
I think he was probably banging her during that film shoot, but the shoot was over four months ago and I haven’t read or heard anything about them seeing each other since then. Has anyone else heard anything?
I think he and Cotillard are history, but the damage has been done.
“Absolutely devastated” is not a “no, I didn’t do it” in my book. The wording is strange.
Yup!! Seems fishy to me !
The words aren’t hers. Some source said the claims “will” leave her absolutely devastated. Some source guessing what she will feel with these allegations.
I’m waiting for Marion or her rep to issue a denial today. If still crickets, then that will be very odd.
“blissfully happy” was a bit over the top as well, I thought. But yes, no her actual words.
Team Brad!
Team Pittillard!
French girls Will land them all!
🙂
Jolie is half French lol
…no she isn’t. Both her parents were American, with her mother being of French Canadian descent. Angie herself has said she is not French.
@GOTR
I’m Canadian, descended from one of the families of France who settled Quebec years back. I’m also french as in France french on my other side. Angie may not consider herself french but if her Mom was French Canadian, then she definitely is part french.
Quebec history is interesting tho tortured. Effects on indigenous people by french settlers, the Huguenots forced to flee France for Quebec and elsewhere to avoid execution… Quebec is deeply rooted in France roots so, no offence to anyone, but Angie is definitely part french. She may not like it but it’s a fact if her Mom was indeed French Canadian.
My husband is québécois, so are my in-laws and while we share a language, culture is not the same at all. I would not call them French. They don’t either. Jolie is not french, she doesn’t claim us, we don’t claim her. And That was juste a silly joke anyway:)
The timing really doesn’t make sense. There were rumours when the first on-set pictures came out, and all through filming, but that’s been over for a while now. If they were cheating then and Jolie was looking into it, she’d have known a while ago, yet so far everyone agrees this was a pretty sudden decision made last week. Same with the possible pregnancy, rumours started up about that around 6 weeks ago. So why is it suddenly a problem now, and if it’s because Pitt came clean, then why are both sides playing the angle that he was somewhat blindsided by the filing. If he told her last week he cheated or got another woman pregnant, it can’t have come as a big shock that she filed.
Maybe they did sleep together, who knows, but I doubt that’s the major reason for the split.
I think people are jumping on this because they were filming in April so that’s 5 months ago, and Marion is about 4 months pregnant.
There was also a story in June that Brad & Angelina were fighting over their French chateau.
I agree though I think there’s another reason for the split.
Or perhaps many reasons for the split. The sources say it’s something that happened a week ago. Probably that was the icing on the cake.
No one is gonna come out and explain to the public all the things that have been adding up and culminated in what happened last week.
This is what I think too. I still think it was an incident of some kind. I don’t see Angelina ripping the kids away for cheating from 5 months ago.
It’s something big or they would have put out a joint statement and separated quietly.
The way Angie is playing this… Makes me think there was something to those rumors we’ve heard for years about her freaking out on him and him running away.
Maybe he wasn’t banging Marion… But I am thinking he was seeing someone.
Remember when Angelina told Vanity Fair is was “absolutely bullshit” that she slept with Brad while shooting Mr. and Mrs. Smith? Just saying …
Marion is just a red herring. Affair or not, she wasn’t what broke them up. Just my feeling on this.
I agree, after all it is a relationship of 12 years, probably many things happened that made them grew apart, not just one.
Smh, all I can think is whatever went down this is about to be a big mess in terms of publicity and public opinion.
The timing sucks if Marion isn’t involved but Geez…the coincidences they do line up far too nicely.
I don’t believe it is a coincidence at all. My take: Angelina filed for the divorce and got the story about the kids and brad out there to make sure the story wouldn’t be about her being the jilted wife, but she planned the timing as a total smackdown to both Marion & Brad. The funny thing on twitter is that everyone is speculating that Paramount suddenly decided to launch a huge campaign with tv ads on the day that the Brange news broke instead of the other way around: Jolie planned this for the day the trailer broke to put Brad/Marion in the hot seat with their new movie.
I think being separated from your wife is enough to start a new relationship. Since divorces take time and are legal matters, a “separation” I feel like is enough of a “break-up”. So I don’t feel like dating Angie during his separation was cheating… Unless he hooked up with Angie before they were separated. In which case, yes, that is cheating.
I believe it wasn’t Marion… Angie really loves her kids and anything that puts the kids in danger is crossing the line for her.
Exactly!! If both people say that a relationship is over, the marriage is just a piece of paper at that point. Just like if a couple both agree that they are ‘together’, even if they aren’t married, it’s cheating.
Brad had a fling, there’s a baby on the way – I’m guessing he went ever so slightly beyond their version of the pale. No way it’s the first time in 12 years. It’s just different this time.
ya sounds about right
If there was no truth to this , why wouldn’t Marion just put out a simple statement saying its false ? I didn’t believe it yesterday but today … I think she actually might be pregnant with his baby. Anyone else thinking the same thing ?
My jaw will hit the floor and probably never come back up.
Yes, it’s a bit suspect. Surely that’s the first thing someone would do in her situation, cut the rumour down and put it to bed?
Unless of course it’s a bit more complicated than that… as in the baby’s not Pitt’s but she and Pitt did have an affair…
Angelina spent years and years ignoring media speculation and gossip. She never responded to any stories about her. Perhaps Marion is also not dignifying the rumours with a response.
This is a bit different. When Angie became pregnant with Shiloh, nobody suggested it wasn’t Brad’s child. (In fact, she caught hell because everyone knew it was his child and said this was the baby he should have been having with Aniston.)
Also, when Angie hooked up with Brad, she wasn’t in a relationship with someone else.
I love how so many people throw karma in Angelina’s face and in the same time other people (many people) wrote about how cute Chris Evans and Jenny Slate were after knowing their ‘situation’. Chris Evans and Jenny are just the last two people that I remember right now that have evaded public wrath and a cheating scandal riding on public compassion and sympathy (I am sure there are many more). I think Amanda Seyfried avoided it too. Of course, these are not A-listers like Brange but the principle still applies.
It seems that when cheaters cheat and start a new relationship, they are cute and excuses are made for why they left their partners and families. However, when the relationship ends, it’s karma.
As a society, we should just make up our minds already.
I will be happy when that “karma” bullsh1t is put to bed. People seem absolutely gleeful when they use it.
You don’t like when people who act like crap get to feel how it is to be on the receiving end.
I am sure they are feeling it, but the people squawking karma were not the ones on the receiving end. I can’t stand Kimye nor any of their near and dear, but when their breakup happens I won’t be on any sites doing a happy dance. It just seems a bit malicious. Speculate all you want about what happened, but celebrate it, no thanks.
For real. WAY too many people think that the concept of “karma” really means “personally satisfying revenge” Umm, no.
SusanneToo: Thank you. I am not a religious person, but I don’t understand why so many people feel entitled to pass judgment so gleefully on human beings involved in these horrible life crises. Seriously, who are you people to judge total strangers on such complicated matters? You don’t know, and none of us do. Read the gossip, speculate all you want, it’s fan fiction, fine, I get that, but the glee in the pain and agony of others is quite revolting to me, if I’m being honest. You don’t have to judge, in order to watch, listen and hopefully learn from the mistakes and hardship of others. You might also use this kind of narrative to widen your acceptance and respect for the difficult situations we are all put in, during the span of our lives. Where I’m from (Denmark) we have a saying: When you point your finger at others, three fingers are pointing back at yourself. Meaning, when you pass judgment on others, you are compromising your own integrity. Judgment is not a good look, on anyone.
@ ALS
Chris Pratt & Anna Faris deff gets a “Aw, they’re adorbs” pass despite their dubious start.
And she recently divulged that Evans contacted her abt “a date or whatever” with Slate in March, while Slate’s hubby filed for divorce in late May. But their PRs have been working over time tryna shoo-sho “karma” away…
I just don’t get how people are still having unprotected sex. It’s one thing to cheat but not using protection?? I find that more offesinve! (If this happened and that baby is Pitt’s)
I say this every time I read some one night stand turns into a child on the way. It’s a mess I don’t think it’s her but something big.. I guess it might come out later but they aren’t talking apparently. all hearsay.
BC does fail sometime. It happens.
Well put, Donna Martin. I find it offensive as hell too.
But women (because men are conveniently excluded) just seem to refuse to acknowledge, directly or indirectly, that they use protection. Like, when they get pregnant, many women say ‘it was an accident’ or ‘it’s in God’s hands’. All children today appear to be accidents.
Just say that you wanted a kid and didn’t use protection or you weren’t planning on a kid but forgot protection.
Huh?
Why should anybody-celeb or not-have to clarify whether they used protection or not?
Why should anybody feel obligated to tell anyone how their child was conceived?
It’s nobody’s business.
Not like they’re asking me or you to raise the baby so why would should we be concerned, much less “offended”, with what people decide to do in the privacy of their own bedroom?
Two of my three children were a result of failed birth control. It happens. And while I own responsibility (as does my husband, who mostly gloats until it’s time to pay tuition or soccer fees), that’s our business and ours alone.
Especially in a woman Cotillard’s age. She’s no naïve teenager. She’s old enough to know better.
i dont think Brad or Angie would be divorcing for infidelity, maybe if Angie banged Matt Damon AND George Clooney. or if he pulled an Arnold. im sure they both had an agreement, no actor and no one that good looking will be “faithful” for that long. everyone is as faithful as their options.
it is certainly not a friendly divorce. both statements were very clear. hers trashed him as a danger to their kids and he did not mention her at all and tried to imply she should leave the kids out of it, at least publicly.
I simple don’t believe the cheating rumours at all – only the media and some Jen fans are clinging on to that. The shooting of the movie was April-May and Angelina supposedly waited 4 months to file divorce? No way.
I do believe it has to do with Brad smoking and drinking heavily and Angelina gave him an ultimatum. Brad probably didn’t believe her and now he does.
Either way – I like them both and I hope they work it out because of their children.
Since they always put their children first, I don’t expect this to be a messy fight from them. The media will write scandals after scandals and claim sources said this and that but everyone know that Brangelina friends & family are pretty close and won’t speak.
Poor Marion, dragged into this is not good especially since she is pregnant. The stress is not good for the baby.
As if Jolie would allow anyone to think he left her for another woman.She’d rather have people think he’s abusive with the kids than people think he grew tired of her.
@toni: as if Jolie would divorce Brad now over an on set fling that almost certainly ended four months ago. What would be the point?
“I don’t expect this to be a messy fight from them.”
Excuse me, but have you been paying attention? Angelina straight out of the gate asked that Brad be denied joint physical custody and only receive visitation because he’s a danger to his kids. Denying him custody is “for the good of the family,” her people keep saying. That’s about as messy and nasty a start as possible.
It’s so strange to me how Maya thinks this won’t get messy. It’s already messy with her calling his parenting into question.
They could have released a joint statement requesting privacy, saying they love their kids, etc. ‘Conscious uncoupling’
Instead she came out guns blazing, on a Tuesday, with vague accusations.
And I agree with the poster above, Jolie is trying to control the narrative and does not want to be a jilted (read ‘undesirable’) woman. She’d much rather be the protective parent, the beautiful actress & humanitarian! while throwing Brad under the bus as irresponsible bordering on abusive…
1 day in and it’s already extremely messy. The suggestion of child abuse/child endangerment alone makes it way messier than any recent divorce with kids.
Screwing around is one thing, but one parent requesting sole custody due to an ‘incident’ is a whole other level of messy. People are already combing through pictures of their children looking for signs of abuse. It doesn’t get much messier than that, and assuming Brad denies Angelina’s version of events, there’s no way this ends without a lot more mess. It’s been a while since two big celebrities have had a full-blown custody war.
You don’t think it will get messy?
Are you that deluded?
The gloves are the off!
Angelina already through brad under the bus!
I mean seriously…
“Maybe it’s just the stereotypes we have about French people and their non-traditional views on monogamy”. Wow, that’s a bit rude. Believe it or not, I’m French and I’ve never ever cheated on anyone. Should I give back my passport ? 😉
Don’t worry, they say something similar for us Italians too…. Let’s give back our passports lol
I read that as self-criticism. That the writer acknowledges that we have stereotypes that are out-dated and untrue, and that we should be aware of subconscious ideas that affect our thinking.
No shame on the French, and after all Brad Pitt is American, so…
I am French too and it really astonish me that this stereotype is still alive. Yes French people do like to flirt and banter but most people I know (young people) in a relationship would not cross the line and cheat. I would certainly not.
So Allied was filing in May, I can’t find the exact dates. Did it last til June?
June, July, August, September.
4 months. Or 3
Some event/conversation happened and then about a week later Angie files for divorce.
A)An already stressed mother, pulling the emotional labor for the family finally cracking at her husbands still party boy ways?
B) Or a hurt woman lashing out because he stepped out and got a mistress pregmant,.
A) for sure, and now it’s sounding like B) as well.
I don’t believe for a second this BS story about Marion. Poor woman. On top of it she’s pregnant and have to hear speculations in the media about the father of the baby? That is awful in so many levels. I’m not even a fan of hers but I feel bad for her here. If this is true it will come out soon enough. No point in denying if there’s a baby involved. If it not true and nothing to me points out that it is except speculation on the internet, this is truly devastating to her. How hot/old Brad is has nothing to do with her being devastated. Jesus people. It’s not about looks.
As for Brad & Angie, I hope they worked through the night to sort out what they need and shut this thing down quickly for the sake of their kids. This is ugly, they and by they I mean her, have fallen into the same trap of playing the dirty PR war, feeding to the lowest bottom feeder of all, TMZ. I’m totally side eyeing her on this. She went public and decided to invite us all to speculate, she better have some receipts beyond “he’s a pothead” who “sometimes yelled at kids”.
I don’t know why people think Marion is pregnant with Brad’s baby. If they did have an affair everybody is reporting it was only on set not something current. Wasn’t filming late 2015/early 2016?
There were set pics in April:
http://www.celebitchy.com/478608/brad_pitt_marion_cotillard_had_a_baby_for_five_seconds_of_silence/
Then there was this story:
http://www.celebitchy.com/496625/is_it_suspicious_that_brad_pitt_has_been_traveling_solo_all_summer/
If the rumors are only that-rumors then I hope Marion, her partner and child can turn this into something humorous. A seed of doubt like that can take a toll on a family. Hopefully, one day she can reminisce about that one time that everyone thought she was carrying Brad Pitt’s baby.
The chance of a natural pregnancy are only 5% (or less) per cycle. What are the odds she could get pregnant from her lover?
I feel sorry for her, being drag in that mess must be awful.
What? That doesn’t sound right at all! A quick google says it’s been 15 & 25% in any particular month.
Did they factor her age in, perhaps?
Yes, the timeline is highly suspicious but I doubt it’s Brad’s baby, even if they had an affair. And yes, Kaiser, I also believe she hooked up with Fassbender on the set of Macbeth or later. The story has legs as long as Marion’s 🙂 🙂 I’d be shocked if she doesn’t make an official statement today confirming pregnancy with Canet and denying any affair with Pitt. She should distance herself from this mess asap.
But, in case she IS pregnant with Pitt’s baby.. this is going to be HUGE.
Fassy is sleeping with everybody these days 🙁 he was so hot once ..
Why? Nothing in their body language suggests that they had an affair. They have never looked embarrassed or uncomfortable. Cotillard is always very flirty with every co-star. See the pic with Garrel,Di Caprio. And why “later”? LOL
New theory !!
The trailer for brad and Marion’s movie coming out on the same day as the split does not make Brad look good at all !
So I wonder. Did Angelina know the trailer was coming out yesterday and therefore announce the divorce to give a subtle hint to their affair ? Does someone at the studio have a soft spot for Angelina and release the trailer to give her allegations some legs ?
Because for the life of me , I don’t understand releasing that trailer yesterday amid these allegations being good for the movie at all !
I think that’s more of an opportunistic marketing department! But I agree that Angelina calculated the bomb dropping to a T. Tuesday Morning, after Emmys coverage wrapped up, Marion Cotillard pregnant (I do not think is Brad’s), movie beginning promotion soon.. She pulled a fast one on William Bradley for sure.
The trailer release would have been planned in advance. I think, with Angelina being his wife and all, she was aware of when the trailer would come out.
Funny side note: Apparently Marion Cotillard is a 911 truther, and doubts that the moon landing ever happened… lol
+1000 this comment made me legitimately laugh out loud
OMG lol what? No! Really?
You left out anti semite. Also opposes feminism
I like her as an actress, but she does have some wacky views. I don’t see anything about her being anti-semitic though. What are you referring to?
So she’s a normal European, then?
That’s offensive!! You mean all Europeans are dumb or wackos?
Yep, I remember her making some dumb comments in an interview last year.
She’s a wonderful actress but she has some odd views.
Yeah, I really liked her until I read a few of her interviews. Yikes!
I’m pretty sure the DM article was made up in an opportunistic race to put an article out there and not from some ‘source close to Marion’, but it’s probably close to the truth. I’m sure the Page Six report has legs – they wouldn’t dare to just throw this out there, not with legal threats hovering above, there must be something behind it. Just absolute speculation from this gossip chaser. I am curious as to how her career is going to recover from this though. Breaking up the True Hollywood Love Of All Time is not going to be pretty. Is anyone on CB French or from France? Super curious as to the french attitude to all of this.
Both Guillaume Canet and Mario Cotillard have their respective movies out today + Allied trailer so of course there’s lot of press.
Hard to know if she will suffer from the gossips from the time being;
I am a French reader of Celebitchy, this is my actually my first comment. Most of the French Media is very careful not to comment on the Cotillard story. But Marion Cotillard’s instagram is now being flooded with insults and snake emojis 🙁 : http://www.brain-magazine.fr/article/page-pute/32249-Pendant-ce-temps-la-sur-l-Instagram-de-Marion-Cotillard
@IseeParis
That’s awful!! She should delete her Instagram, I wouldn’t bother to even open it if that’s the case!
@ISeeParis, That’s a real shame that Marion is being harassed because of rumors.
there are no legal threats. american newspapers can write something like that without facing a lawsuit. if she sues she will lose and that would make people think its true so she wont/cant.
in america you need to prove the allegations are untrue and then you need to prove they acted with acual malice. impossible.
in france she would have a chance they have other laws.
If she had nothing to do with it, and I feel really bad for her that she’s being dragged into it. If that’s the case, she herself needs to release a statement, as do Angelina, or Brad, to clear her out of the story. If she was not involved, it is so wrong to villainize her for this.
Wholeheartedly agree.
Whatever their mess is shouldn’t become Marion’s unless….which I seriously doubt.
Agree completely. She needs to nip it in the bud ASAP.
Lainey says that Marion is not it. And her theory has two legs, does Angelina file for divorce from Brad for an affair with Marion after she has been crucified in the media for the triangle of doom? She’s smarter than that. Something went down between the family that triggered it. I also believe they have led separate lives for a while. I am camp Marion is a red herring.
I am a French reader of Celebitchy, this is actually my first comment here. Most of the French Media is very careful not to comment on the Cotillard story. But Marion Cotillard’s instagram is now being flooded with insults and snake emojis : http://www.brain-magazine.fr/article/page-pute/32249-Pendant-ce-temps-la-sur-l-Instagram-de-Marion-Cotillard
Instragram users are always so elegant…..
Yes they are ! It’s getting out of hand with this story, I really hope they will calm down until we have some actual piece of information…
I would be terrified if I were her. Regardless of whether or not she had an affair, she will be drawn and quartered by the court of public opinion indefinitely over this. And, even if the child isn’t Brads, some people will sill be speculating about it well after the child is fully grown.
Oh my God, people are insane ! I love Marion, I feel bad for her. Even if the rumour happens to be true, I wouldn’t blame her. Nobody belongs to anyone and people are free. I’ve never understood this need to vilify unfaithful people. It’s just cheating, not murder everyone.
You’re right! It’s terrifying that people are already branding her with a scarlet letter. After all it is all speculation. I equally admire both actresses and I would not wish this media frenzy on anyone!
Considering at least 50% of marriages suffer from infidelity you would think that people would be more understanding. Life isn’t just black and white and this kind of thing can happen to anyone for a million different reasons.
Well, it might not be murder, and technically everyone is “free”, but ethically/morally its 100% wrong, it shows a completely lack of disrespect for Your partner… of course if its mutually agreed that its an open relationship its a different case, however when Your partner blindsides you with this, its the ultimate betrayal in a romantic relationship, and imo unforgiveable… I take it You have never felt how much it hurts to have someone You love cheat on You…
k so i m calling misogyny. i’m already noticing this. so far i m reading allllll the to-be-expected crap about how this is karma for angelina, what did she expect blah blah blah, and speculation about jennifer aniston’s reaction, and speculation about the fatherhood of marion’s baby, and is angelina really mad at him for substances or is this just a cover-up for her shame at being passed over by a bored man… NO WHERE have i yet to see the slightest comment about BRAD, perhaps condemnation however premature for either being a crappy parent or a philanderer… it’s like the man’s actions go without saying and it’s the women in these things that all the scrutiny and mean-spirited talk falls upon. either brad couldn’t keep it in his pants or he s a bad parent (SOMETHING has really pissed Jolie off) but whatevs, let’s spend our time being gleeful about how crappy this must be the various women and setting up the new catfights to come and digging up the old ones and stuff…. it seems safe to say that brad, somewhere, has acted a fool… but yeah let’s be gleeful about how it’s the women who’ve gotta fight over the man and suffer the consequences
I usually don’t comment on gossip, but people are awful, I’m not a Marion Cotillard fan but she has always been very proffesional on set & she seems devoted to Canet & her son. She’s also pregnant with her second baby & I can’t imagine the stress she must be in because of the tabloids. I saw a french news site that showed pictures of fans insulting Marion’s instagram account calling her a bitch & someone who destroyed a family & I came to CB expecting people to me more levelheaded, but the site calls herself feminist & then goes & publishes that bullshit that well french are more open minded about relationships, honestly I’m dissapointed
Agreed! This is a serious and potentially dangerous situation for Marion. People are so quick to work themselves up into a mob mentality. Even if there was an affair people need to calm down and back off. She must be being inundated with hate right now and that’s not good for anyone, but most especially for a pregnant woman.
Oh my! I didn’t initially buy the Marion affair as the reason for the divorce but THIS. The timing is VERY suspect. And she has confirmed the pregnancy – today of all days?! This is something BIG. This is something that affects the whole family, that blows the family apart. Now, I am suspicious.
If Marion has nothing to do with this, she really needs to issue a statement saying so ASAP.
Wait, has Marion actually confirmed she is pregnant? The link above leads to the Daily Mirror, and doesn’t have actual confirmation. Although, I saw pictures of her yesterday which definitely suggested a bump.
I’m also reading rumors of Brad ‘flirting up a storm’ with Selena Gomez of all people.
Daily mail now saying Angie was pissed over Brad/Selena Gomez!!?? This just keeps getting crazier..
They are reaching so hard. It seems that they have to drag someone else into this mess.
Did Brad steal Maddox’s girlfriend??
🙂
If I were Marion and this rumor were false, I would be LIVID that I were being dragged into this. If its not true, then I feel terrible for her, and shame on the Jolie camp for perpetuating it.
But what if it is true? The timeline looks pretty dicey.
Up to a couples of days ago she was filming Rockn’Roll, a movie directed by her life partner. He wouldn’t be with her if the child is not his. He recently praised her in the media too. The baby is his and shame on us and the media for inflicting pain on a pregnant woman!
If she was banging Brad — and this is a big if — while she was living with her life partner, then there is a chance she may not know which of them fathered her child. Even is Brad is definitively ruled out as the father, why would she be cheating on her life partner with him? And if she has been slandered by the media, why doesn’t she take legal action? If it was me, I sure would.
Who said the Jolie camp was spreading this?
Exactly. Aniston’s fans blamed Jolie for starting and spreading the rumor that she never wanted children.
I don’t think Jolie’s camp has perpetuated it – they clearly said no third party, incident with the kids. Marion is being dragged in by the tabloids, because when it comes to AJ and BP, that story sells better.
However, I would like to see Jolie’s camp state for the record Marion had nothing to do with it and to leave her alone.
I’m more inclined to believe the Selena Gomez rumors than the Marion Cotillard. Actually, I don’t believe them at all.
This is completely besides the point, but rather a basic observation…Marion Cotillard is absolutely gorgeous!!
Seconded.
This poor woman is pregnant and wanting a quiet life. Let her be. My gosh not EVERYONE wants to sleep with Angelina and Brad.
I know I don’t!! I hate COOTIES!!
Perhaps it’s just Angie’s guilty conscience talking. Isn’t that the way Brad and she hooked up?
I am wondering about the Page Six story- wouldn’t they fact check/vet the heck out of this information before publishing it? SO WEIRD
If they did have an affair, then don’t you think they would have used contraception? The stakes are pretty high for both of them. And if they “forgot” or a condom broke, then there’s always the morning after pill. Or abortion, if you’re trying to have a baby with your partner, and you’re not sure who donated the sperm.
Or maybe they had an affair and want to be together? And the baby is not a problem?
right. i meant, assuming that they want to stay with their respective partners.
I think it’s strange that MC has not yet released a statement. Being devastated is not denying it. If it’s not true, I would be so angry!!!
That is the one statement I keep waiting to see. Yet nothing, more than 24 hours afterwards.
Actually if you check out Just Jared Marion has made a statement on her Instagram. And she shut down the rumors in a very classy way.
Camille, I read that statement twice. It was very elegant and very evasive. If you notice, she didn’t actually deny anything.
Saw it tonight. I agree about the wording, too. Guess it would take some time to craft a classy sounding, yet carefully worded, statement. I would have had something out there within a couple of hours, if my name were dragged into something so public, with not a shred of truth to it.
LOL! “Absolutely devastated” ain’t a denial.
They totally cheated.
The Daily Mail is saying that Angie was so jealous of her that she refused to speak to her on set.
Oh please, the Daily Fail will say absolutely anything.
🙄
Daily Fail is the most misogynistic piece of crap excuse for a media outlet. It genuinely depresses me that its readers are mostly women. And many of the comments here are just as awful and display a lot of internalised misogyny.
If I was MC and it wasn’t true, I’D BE FURIOUS, not devastated.
Am I the only one who thinks that would be one GORGEOUS child if the rumors are true!?