Angelina Jolie states that she feared for the safety of her children and family during her marriage to Brad Pitt, and that she was attacked by Harvey Weinstein early in her career.
In an interview with The Guardian, Jolie spoke obliquely about her endless divorce from Pitt as she insisted on her new book “Know Your Rights,” stammering “I … I’m still in my own legal situation,” including the child abuse allegations to Pitt.
The actress claims she was afraid of “my whole family” during the union.
“I’m not the type of person who makes decisions like the decisions I had to make lightly,” he told the newspaper. “It took me a long time to be in a position where I felt I had to separate from the father of my children.”
Jolie and Pitt share six children: Maddox, 20, Pax, 17, Zahara, 16, Shiloh, 15, and twins Vivienne and Knox, 13. Maddox is not included in the battle for ongoing custody because he is no longer a minor.
Jolie filed for divorce in 2016. Pitt was cleared of child abuse allegations made by the Los Angeles County Department of Child and Family Services over an incident between him and Maddox on a U.S. plane in Europe.
Even though the duo is legally divorced, they are still fighting for custody of their children.
Judge John W. Ouderkirk first granted the actor “Inglourious Basterds” joint custody of the former couple’s five minor children, but a California appellate court disqualified Ouderkirk because it was found that did not adequately disclose business relations with Pitt’s attorneys.
Ouderkirk, who refused to disqualify himself from the divorce when Jolie asked for it in a 2020 lawsuit, has a long past with the family. He even married Pitt and the “Maleficent” actress in 2014.
Pitt declined to comment to the Guardian.
When asked about the past five years, Jolie said the divorce had been “traumatic” and added, “I mean, in a way it’s been the last decade. There are a lot of things I can’t say … I think at the end of the day, even if you and a few people you love are the only people who know the truth about your life, why you struggle or what you sacrifice or what you have suffered, you are at peace with it, regardless of everything that happens around you “.
Another problem she had with Pitt during her marriage was her willingness to work with rapist Harvey Weinstein whom she said abused her.
“It was beyond a pass, it was something I had to escape,” said Jolie, who starred in Weinstein’s “Playing by Heart” when she was 21 years old.
“I stayed away and warned people about him. I remember telling Jonny, my first husband, who was very good at it, to spread the word to other boys: don’t let the girls go alone with him. I was asked to do “The Aviator,” but I said no because I was involved. I never again associated or worked with him. It cost me a lot when Brad did it. ”
Jolie claims that Pitt asked Weinstein to work as the producer of the black thriller “Killing Them Softly,” which the Weinstein company later distributed.
“We fought for (Weinstein’s involvement),” Jolie said, noting her husband’s apparent eagerness to work with Weinstein: “Of course it hurt.”