Jennifer Aniston’s candid thoughts about her ex-husband Brad Pitt resurfaced amid his divorce settlement with Angelina Jolie
“It was on the lot of Friends—I pulled over and introduced myself,” she said about her encounter with the Maria actress.
She then spoke about how her then-husband was excited to be working with her on the hit spy comedy Mr. & Mrs. Smith, which they began shooting for in August 2004.
“I said, ‘Brad is so excited about working with you. I hope you guys have a really good time,’” Aniston recalled.
Aniston and Brad announced their legal separation on January 7, 2005, after a four-and-a-half-year marriage
In the same interview, the veteran actress spoke about going through a tough time back then because her hit show Friends was wrapping up after a successful, decade-long run. She also remembered how Pitt began withdrawing from her at the same time.
“He was gone,” she said.
When she reached out to him for support, she remembered not receiving any and said he didn’t even show up for the show’s final taping.
“I said, ‘Brad is so excited about working with you. I hope you guys have a really good time,’” Aniston told Jolie as the shooting for Mr. & Mrs. Smith began
“He just wasn’t there for me,” she added.
After their marriage of four and a half years, Aniston and Pitt announced their legal separation on January 7, 2005, in a joint statement.
About three months later, Aniston and the rest of the world laid eyes on pap photographs of Pitt and Jolie frolicking on Kenya’s Diani Beach with her son Maddox.
“The world was shocked, and I was shocked,” she told the outlet.
