Pitt: I didn't cheat on 'sweetheart' Jen
Brad Pitt tried to extricate himself from his tabloid love triangle today, saying his relationship with current flame Angelina Jolie began after he split up with Jennifer Aniston.
In October, Jolie revealed that she and Pitt fell in love while making the 2005 film 'Mr & Mrs Smith'. In November, former Friends star Aniston called Jolie’s comments “really uncool” because she was married to Pitt while the movie was in production.
But in a story posted on W magazine’s website, Pitt defended both women and insisted that his relationship with Jolie did not begin until after he and ex-wife Aniston parted in 2005.
“Jen is a sweetheart,” Pitt, 45, tells the magazine for its January 20 issue. “I think she got dragged into that one and then there’s a second round to all that Angie versus Jen. It’s so created.
“What people don’t understand is that we filmed ('Mr & Mrs Smith') for a year. We were still filming after Jen and I split up.
“Even then it doesn’t mean that there was some kind of dastardly affair. There wasn’t. I’m very proud of the way that it was handled. It was respectful.”
Pitt says he and Aniston “still check in with each other”.
“She was a big part of my life, and me hers,” he says.
Pitt was nominated for a Golden Globe and Screen Actors Guild award for his starring role in 'The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button'. Jolie was nominated for those same awards for her starring turn in 'Changeling'. Aniston can currently be seen in the family film 'Marley & Me'.
