Not since Tom Cruise jumped on Oprah’s couch have we seen an A-list star so needlessly destroy their image.
But here comes Brad Pitt, out promoting his new movie F1, giving all manner of ugly, personal, and cruel updates regarding his six children — two of whom, per sources, Pitt has now disowned.
Keep in mind: This very private information has been freely thrown into the public square by Pitt. He didn’t have to say a thing.
On his son Pax, 21, who was recently photographed and filmed drunkenly stumbling out of LA’s infamous Chateau Marmont and into strip club Deja Vu at 2.30 a.m. — so blitzed he couldn’t walk or stand on his own — Pitt insiders issued this statement, exclusively to the Mail:
‘[Brad] has zero concern with what Pax does or doesn’t do.’
‘Zero concern.’
How heartless.
Brad Pitt is a 61-year-old global movie star who adopted Pax, along with then-partner Angelina Jolie, from Vietnam when Pax was just three years old.
Those two who brought this little boy to America, where he spoke no English, and whose name was changed his name from Pham Quang Sang — again, the only name this orphan had ever known — to Pax Jolie-Pitt.
Pax has, of late, dropped the ‘Pitt’ from his surname. Wonder why.
His estranged father Brad had even more to say about Pax, who, it seems, he clearly considers a disgrace and a liability.
‘[Pax’s] actions reflect who he is,’ sources close to Pitt said. ‘Brad honestly considers his relationship with Pax unfixable.’
The cruelty on display is jaw-dropping.
Brad Pitt, a once beloved A-list movie star — who escaped any real scrutiny over Angelina’s highly detailed report of the abuse she claims she and the children suffered on that plane, at Pitt’s hands — has just humiliated his own son.
Jolie claimed, among other offenses, that Pitt threw her up against a bathroom wall, poured beer on her and at least one of the children, and said another looked like a ‘school shooter.’
Pitt has denied these claims.
Guess he thinks that sources suggesting he’s disowned two of his sons will boost his image. If so, he’s got as much common sense as Harry and Meghan.
Pitt is ostensibly the adult here, the father — and as such, frankly, should be looking within as to why his relationship with Pax, in particular, seems so deeply troubled.
Pitt, as per his own self-report, is a recovering alcoholic. If he’s really in active recovery, he should be taking inventory of his own failings as a parent.
Or he might be asking himself why Pax, who seems to share a love of motorcycling with his father — a way for Pax to wordlessly communicate his complicated feelings toward Brad, maybe even admiration — keeps crashing his high-powered electric dirt bike into other vehicles.
That seems to be quite a strong self-destructive streak, one that could likely be rooted in self-loathing.
And there’s nothing like parental rejection — grossly public parental rejection — to fuel self-loathing. His father has just said, in sum and substance, that Pax is a lost cause to be written off.
Same with eldest son Maddox, also adopted by Pitt — who, again, sounds like the real child here. Per the Pitt source:
‘Pax and Maddox have made it abundantly clear how they feel, and Brad has nothing to say about either of them.’
Wow, is he stupid — stupider than rumored, more immature than ever suspected, and way meaner than his ex Jennifer Aniston implied when she told Vanity Fair that he was ‘missing a sensitivity chip.’
Here’s what Pitt should have said: ‘I love all my children and my door is always open.’
That is, if he does really love all his children equally — the birth children and the adopted ones — and if that multiracial six-pack was more than an accessory to burnish his celebrity.
Jolie’s camp pushed back, saying that ‘Brad continues to play the victim. His fractured relationship with his children is a direct result of how he has treated them. He should stop blaming others.’
Agreed — especially his troubled 21-year-old son Pax, who seems to me to be crying out for help.
As Pitt makes the rounds in New York City this week, with his much-younger, seemingly malleable girlfriend Ines de Ramon — having dinner with Bradley Cooper and Gigi Hadid, and telling People magazine that he loves Ines because she’s ‘no drama’ — my God, are we 13? — it seems his camp has told him to pull back on the invective hurled at his own suffering children.
On Wednesday, US Weekly was informed that Pitt carries ‘a lot of heartbreak’ and ‘a deep emotional weight regarding his kids.’
The Pitt source claims that he only sees his two youngest biological children, 16-year-old twins Vivienne and Knox, ‘periodically.’
The other four children, including 20-year-old Zahara and 19-year-old Shiloh — who also both dropped the surname ‘Pitt’ — remain estranged.
Must be pretty bad when you want nothing to do with your ultra-famous, ultra-wealthy father who’s been adored by the world for decades.
Never forget what Pax wrote on social media on Father’s Day in 2020, alongside a photo of Pitt with his Best Actor Oscar.
‘You time and time again prove to be a terrible and despicable person,’ Pax wrote.
‘You have no consideration or empathy toward your four youngest children’ — totally believable in light of Pitt’s most recent statement — ‘who tremble in fear when in your presence. You have made the lives of those closest to me a constant hell. You may tell yourself and the world whatever you want, but the truth will come to light someday.’
Seems like it already is. Wonder if any of these so-called entertainment journalists covering Pitt’s new $200 million movie will have the guts to ask him about Pax?
It is, after all, the only question worth asking.
