People Magazine choosing to put Brad Pitt on their Oscar-coverage issue is still an interesting choice. It’s clear that people within Hollywood still like him a lot and that he’s been crowned Hollywood’s Prom King. I also think it’s interesting that his campaign was so successful without Brad really needing to do a big whitewash on his past. He wasn’t out there, claiming that nothing ever happened on the plane in 2016. There wasn’t a “whitewash.” He just deflected to his drinking problem and how he went through AA and how he’s been sober for a while now. In interviews leading up to the awards season, he seemed contemplative and humbled by the plane incident and divorce drama. Then when the awards came rolling in, suddenly he was making jokes about the situation and even thanking his children – three of whom have no desire to see him – in his Oscar speech. So… there it is. We’re now supposed to believe that Brad Pitt, Oscar winner, has a great relationship with his kids and everything is totally fine now.
After a challenging few years, Brad Pitt’s Oscar win on Feb. 9 proved the actor is back on top and that his career is hotter than ever.
“He has been enjoying a little slower personal life. It has worked wonders,” a source tells PEOPLE. “We can see that it has shot him to the top professionally.”
In 2016 Pitt, 56, and Angelina Jolie, 44, split after two years of marriage and 12 years together. The pair are parents to Maddox, 18, Pax, 16, Zahara, 15, Shiloh, 13, and 11-year-old twins Vivienne and Knox. The breakup took a toll on Pitt, who stepped back from the spotlight to work on himself and admitted his drinking had contributed to his troubles at home. He spent time in a men’s Alcoholics Anonymous group and began to turn his life around by focusing on his health and his kids.
“He is a new man,” a source tells PEOPLE in the new cover story. “He is happy, loves his kids, and relishes his quiet time at home.”
Pitt has been spending increasing time with his kids. Adds a longtime colleague, “Things are going much more smoothly, and he is infinitely happier.”
“The breakup took a toll on Pitt…” Poor Brad, right? I’m sure the divorce took a toll on Angelina as well, especially since she was the one getting the court to order Brad into rehab and therapy and she was the one taking care of their children. But hey, Brad’s a new man now. And it’s all thanks to his “slower personal life.” He didn’t even have to roll out a new girlfriend for his Oscar campaign! But I bet he gets a new girlfriend this year!
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Maybe Angelina would like a period of a “slower personal life” but she doesn’t get that choice. Infuriating.
He’s with Alia Shawkat. They were in New Orleans on Valentine’s Day to celebrate krewe du Kanaval.
How do you know?
Brad went to NOLA? How’d he avoid the pitchforks? Lots of angry people mad about those houses. Methinks this might be bs. Lol
I also think he’s dating her. They’re not really trying to hide it, are they?!
Surely they’re implying that Angelina set a fast pace to their lives and that affected him and made him unhappy. It’s subtle and devious phrasing made to once more make Pitt look like the victim. I’m afraid that now that he’s found his narrative, he’ll just keep playing the same sad tune and milking it for everything it’s got. And to be fair, he has Aniston to mentor him…
He makes one movie a year, if that. Angelina made even less then him. It’s not like he went on her UN trips with her. So basically, most of the time they spent home with kids. I guess, that was too much for him?
Nail on head @kali.
Though he’s only now admitting to alcoholism here in this piece and to, of all people, Bradley Cooper (Brad: Thx for getting me sober man..not my kids…not Angelina dumpling me bec I waa an out of control drunk…but you Bradley, YOU…look at us…look at us)– this kind of bs CAA fckery, is trying to create a new narrative now– Angelina and her fast paced save the world shenanigans drove me to drink- she’s to blame. Now that I have a slower life, to go with my slow thinking…I feel more like myself.
You know, Brad Pitt is merely a flawed human being and he seems to have recognized the gravity of his mistakes and has adjusted course. I would ignore the press spin and just observe his actual actions, such as can actually be seen. Like Jolie, he seems to have gone private in his life again. Perhaps he can rebuild his relationships with his children over time…
I dislike this man so much. He’s not sexier than ever. He has a bad dye job and has been allowed to gloss over his abusive behaviour toward his family, all while using the press and his idiotic award show circus tour, to slam and insult the Mother of his supposedly beloved children. He still isn’t allowed to see his children unsupervised and only half of them are even willing to spend time with him. I’m sure this contributes to his “quieter” lifestyle a lot. He always blames his wives for his problems. He was bored with JA so he smoked pot. His life with humanitarian Angelina and their six kids was too busy so he became an alcoholic and was abusive. It’s never about his own obviously deep seated issues that clearly aren’t going away any time soon. What a complete dick.
…not sure what we’re patting him on the back for? He’s been considered A-list for quite a few years despite his issues. This is pure PR fluff.
This. ^ It’s fluff like this that makes me fear the next election. Are Americans memories that compromised? Pretending he’s reached personal career highs just in the last few yrs after a 2nd Tarantino jaunt?
Totally ignoring Benjamin Button, lead Oscar nom, Burn Afrer Reading, Supporting actor nod, Babel he was on every red carpet getting nomd, Moneyball, and then his art piece considered one of the best Westerns ever, Jesse James, hell, throw fun romp Mr and Mrs Smith in there too, we haven’t even started in on his productions and those films hardware take (12 Years a Slave, Moonlight, The Departed etc) — all done while he was *with Angelina.*
Dispicable man and father who gaslighted his kids mother at every corner. Shame on him and his needy behaviour.
He didn’t look happy at the oscars, IMO.
he got his oscar so why does he keep needing more pr. angelina is better off without him
All I know is that both Pitt and Jolie work in Hollywood, have made tone of $$$, and that people just like Brad better as a person. People just enjoy him around more than Jolie. regardless of Brad’s bad choices. To me, that says more about Jolie than it does about Pitt.
Who said that? Angie is very well liked and admired by lots of people but the media and the CAA PR want people like you to believe that she is not liked….. She is just private and doesn’t go to lots of parties but she has lots of friends like Anne Hathaway Cate Blanchett …People who don’t like her are the people who haven’t met her or don’t like her from the news but the people who knew her really well and her heart, really loved her just like Salma Hayek said that Angie is a private person and not that sociable but she is warm and lovely
He didn’t really have a choice he was being investigated by the FBI/Child Services. He had a lot of issues to sort out. His addictions problems are ongoing and court cases he still has New Orle. He has been talking about his drug taking as well as his alcoholism. I really think he didn’t have a handle on things due to his drugs – I don’t know how he functioned. I think Ben Affleck has been more honest and intelligent about his issues than Brad has. He never publicly trashed his wife or got his friends and the media to attack the mother of his children.