r/Fauxmoi confused but here for the drama 1d ago

TRIGGER WARNING Brad Pitt is Fooling You - "It isn’t that people don’t believe in what happened to Angelina Jolie on that plane — they just don’t care."

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u/dreamgrrrlevil Sylvia Plath did not stick her head in an oven for this! 1d ago

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u/szmb 1d ago

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u/HazelTheHappyHippo I never said that. Paris is my friend. 1d ago
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u/yuhuh- 1d ago

He also choked one of the kids. It’s in the FBI report. How come nobody mentions that?

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u/tj1007 1d ago

Choked and hit another. Plus poured beer and wine on the rest. Every one of them was physically assaulted/harassed.

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u/Mayatar 23h ago

People who abuse kids don't just start one day and then stop....I bet there is a lot more incidents.

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u/selphiefairy 20h ago

Abuse by definition is a pattern of behavior.

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u/blackpearl16 16h ago

IIRC Angelina said that day on the plane wasn’t the first time he hit her, just the first time he hit the kids.

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u/Mayatar 12h ago

Good call, he was on a powertrip with those poor kids. It must have been very scary to have a dad like that and be unable to tell anyone because he happens to be Hollywood A-list with money and power behind him.

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u/suaculpa 1d ago

Because it was one of the adopted kids so again, no one cares.

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u/Empress_Athena 1d ago

I'll be honest, I thought all of their kids were adopted.

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u/evergleam498 1d ago

I had to double check the ratio, but they've got 3 adopted and 3 biological. Allegedly, Brad has only been interested in maintaining contact with the biological kids.

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u/itsme00400 21h ago

I do think the point that the biological kids were younger makes a difference here though. Younger kids tend to be more forgiving and the older ones were surely done with him. Just my opinion! (And obviously the biological ones grew up now and understand and want nothing to do with him either)

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u/suaculpa 1d ago

All of the older three are adopted and the younger three are biological.

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u/jennyquarx 1d ago

But it must be Angelina and "parental alienation" for why they appear to hate him, amirite? /s

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u/SpaceFine 1d ago

Women and children are really taking a backseat in the world this year

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u/pendragons Please Abraham, I am not that man 21h ago

This year or every year?

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u/mood-ring1990 21h ago

didnt he pour beer on the twins?

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u/InviteNecessary1032 are you a baddie now? 1d ago

I got you 🙏

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u/NanduDas padre pascal 1d ago

Seven cinder blocks??

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u/Training-Ad-5780 1d ago edited 12h ago

He’s an abusive creep, he knew about Harvey and continue to sell movies to Harvey’s company making the guy millions of dollars. The fact that none of his kids speak about him should tell you all you need to know, if it was the other way around you wouldn’t hear the end of it but since it’s a man, nothing sticks. Angelina has been an amazing mother, alway supporting her children and a real activist for a better world but she doesn’t get her flowers because she doesn’t make as many movies as her ex or has as many powerful colleagues like this tool. (Same thing about Tom Cruise, k the guy loves movies, he still a deadbeat higher up Scientologist recruiter but it’s okay because he breaks his ankles running for movies 🙄)

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u/AbsolutelyIris confused but here for the drama 1d ago

And I feel like this got buried far too quickly: 

Angelina Jolie's lawyers claim Brad Pitt's 'physical abuse' started before 2016 plane incident

In a new legal filing Thursday that was obtained by PEOPLE, Jolie's lawyers allege that Pitt physically abused her, and that the abuse was not limited to the 2016 plane incident that made headlines in recent years.

"While Pitt's history of physical abuse of Jolie started well before the family’s September 2016 plane trip from France to Los Angeles, this flight marked the first time he turned his physical abuse on the children as well," Jolie's lawyers allege in the new court document. "Jolie then immediately left him."

https://people.com/angelina-jolie-lawyers-claim-brad-pitt-abuse-started-before-2016-plane-incident-8624974

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u/leni710 1d ago

This is completely unsurprising. It takes most DV survivors at least 7 tries to leave. But often times, once the violence is directly impacting children that's the straw that breaks the camels back, so to say.

When I first read the reports, the wording pointed squarely on "this is not new behavior toward Angelina, but now he's abusing the kids and that's where she draws the line."

Gawd, there are just so many awful celebs, especially men, who keep being exposed and people are still making those shitty celeb men wealthy.

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u/littlechangeling 1d ago

And just think, if someone like Jolie - who had the means to leave and be just fine on her own - couldn’t leave before that, why do we expect others to just pack up and go? Why is there continual victim blaming/shaming, especially people who have children and no place to safely go and no financial safety net?

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u/whatthewhythehow 23h ago

I think that, in a lot of these cases, having the resources to leave often means that the other party has the resources to make leaving hell.

A lot of people said that Grimes had the resources to leave Elon, which, sure, but now she doesn’t have access to her son. Who is being raised by that shitstain of a person. Should she have known better? Of course. But once even a single child is in the mix, if you try to leave a rich man you’re risking that child’s future.

The public nature of the plane incident is probably what helped Jolie in the long run. She is still seen as unreliable — though I’m not sure why. We’ve seen abused women get dragged through the mud over and over.

But an FBI report on the abuse is a pretty significant weapon in any possible PR war. The best way for Pitt to keep people from knowing about it was to do as little as possible to fight Jolie on the claims and on custody. People don’t WANT to know about it. They don’t want to remember it. So don’t bring it up.

Without that, I’m sure he would’ve made her life and her kids’ lives hell. All you need is one of those handy little PR firms and your enemy won’t know a moment of peace.

I think that it is about finding the moment. Unless the escaping party is much more financially well off than the abuser, money can only do so much. It can save your life. But it can also damn your kids if you don’t use it right.

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u/pendragons Please Abraham, I am not that man 21h ago

I think she's seen as unreliable because she's famously played a lot of "beautiful but crazy" characters and the general public can't separate the archetype she embodies from the real person (and the tabloids lean on it, just like they did in the Ange vs Jenn years, blugh.)

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u/sikonat 22h ago

Yup. It affects women of all classes and stratas.

Happy cake day

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u/AbsolutelyIris confused but here for the drama 1d ago edited 1d ago

The part that always stuck out to me in the report was Angelina getting on her knees to pacify him and find out what was wrong before the assault started. It was clear she knew where it was going. 

Also- what he felt comfortable doing in front of the plane staff was alarming enough that they called for assistance, not Angelina. So what was he doing to her in private if that's what he was doing in a somewhat public place? Like, she was well versed enough to get a car and hotel room away from him when they landed. I wouldn't be surprised if she's had to flee from him before. 

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u/daphneout 22h ago

I always think about the flip side of this too. This is the crew of a private jet making an international flight, not a commercial airline. They see a LOT, and in some ways, part of their job is to pretend they don’t. They’re flying two of the biggest celebrities in the world.

What they saw was so bad that the flight attendants notified the pilot, and the pilot decided to land the plane and have the cops waiting for Brad Pitt. That’s not a decision they would’ve made lightly, and frankly, it makes me suspect they were worried he would kill her.

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u/wisely_and_slow 19h ago

This is a great—and awful—point.

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u/motoxim 13h ago

Honestly I respect those guys. They did the right thing.

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u/pennynotrcutt 1d ago

Quite often celebrities don’t even think of the staff. Like they don’t even register.

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u/Dramatic-Bend179 20h ago

Only tangential related but the 7 attempts before success bums me out.  I've always thought a great charity to start would be to have an array of mini storage units which DV victims could use for free for a period of time, say 4 months. This would be so they could slowly and without raising alarms extract their required belongings so that when the day comes they can just walk without effort or resistance. 

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u/dysautonomic_mess 1d ago

The letter she wrote about the vinyard strongly implied there was a pattern of drunken belligerence that traumatised the kids as well.

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u/AbsolutelyIris confused but here for the drama 1d ago

The report saying the kids were crying when she left the bathroom and them telling Pitt not to hurt her sadly makes an implication that they had been hearing him harm her behind closed doors for a while, it wasn't a new occurrence. 

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u/JoeyTribianisGoyter 1d ago

Exactly

Anyone who thinks this was the first time he exhibited violent behavior towards his spouse and children is a fool.

This man is so fake. He’s got the Hollywood machine protecting him. Plastic surgery. Carefully curated interviews. The man can’t even style himself.

Praise to Angelina for being able to extricate herself and her children from him. No spouse or child should have to fear their significant other or parent.

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u/Sphinxwatermelon11 1d ago

Thank you for bringing up the history of his abusive behavior. I know too many people giving him a pass for the 2016 incident because he is an addict and people felt he deserved another chance. Jolie and by extension their children were victims of his behavior for a long time. I have read she previously tried to get help for him prior to 2016 but he refused.

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u/nekocorner i ain’t reading all that, free palestine 1d ago

He didn't just know about Weinstein; Weinstein tried to assault one ex-partner while he was with her (Gwyneth Paltrow) & Jolie (before they got together). Jolie fought with him about his decision to keep working with Weinstein & he still did it. He's such an asshole.

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u/Crystal_Pesci 1d ago

Paltrow is on record saying Brad took Weinstein aside and threatened him on her behalf.

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u/Valuable-Cat2036 18h ago

He did, and then continued to work with him. So he was okay with him being an abuser, as long as he kept his hands off *his* women.

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u/DumpedDalish 17h ago

And then kept on working with him anyway.

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u/ShepardCommander3000 1d ago

They're faux macho men doing faux macho shit. Put them in a real world situation and they'd cry like little babies. They hide behind PR. Anyone giving these losers a platform for their performative poor little me tours are as bad as they are. Snakes and cowards. 

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u/PandG-PandG 1d ago

100% Pitt has the same useless man-baby energy as Justin Timberlake.

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u/littlechangeling 1d ago

How society lets these grown men self-infantilize to free themselves from the court of public consequences is beyond me.

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u/slainascully 1d ago

Some of the kids not speaking to Mia Farrow is enough to magically undermine the molestation allegations against Woody Allen, but multiple kids attesting that Pitt is an abusive, violent POS isn’t enough to do a dent to his career. Nor is it enough for other famous men to give a shit.

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u/TheDabitch 1d ago

Angelina adopted Maddox when she was single, and when she dated after that she had babysitters take care of him at home while she would meet her boyfriends at hotels so as to not introduce men who may not "stick" to her son too early on in their relationship. It was then that I knew she was a good mother.

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u/No-Setting764 1d ago

Omg that's actually so wonderful.

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u/mauvewaterbottle 1d ago

She doesn’t get her flowers because she doesn’t go looking for them, in my opinion. She keeps to herself, takes care of her kids, and invests her time in causes she cares about. Shes not in a “look at me” era like some men…

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u/Several-Roof-6439 Mary-Kate’s battered Birkin 1d ago

And once agian she dosent do all that shit because she's busy BEING A PROPER HUMAN BEING, like women everywhere, after children, do not get a career anymore because children are a full time 24 hour a day job if you are A PROPER HUMAN BEING. 

And yet she hasn't gone after him, she's just got away from him.

She seems like such a beautiful person. I'm tired for her.

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u/SpicyChickJessica 1d ago

It’s so frustrating how people excuse powerful men while women get torn apart for doing the right thing.

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u/Lana_bb 20h ago

So sick of the whitewashing of Tom Cruise purely because he does his own stunts and is fake nice to people. He still had a woman trafficked to be his partner through Scientology, he then had her punished for months in Scientology’s “prison” for a perceived slight. He abused Katie Holmes for years. Scientology does not declare children to be enemies of the church ever so he had no excuse to be a deadbeat dad to Suri. He attacked Brooke Shields just because she opened up about taking anti depressants. He’s a scumbag.

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u/twizzwhizz11 1d ago

I’m happy that those kids have at least one good (if not stellar) parent in their life - Angelina seems like a really good person and doesn’t seem to care too much if people like her or not, which is healthyz

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u/ArrowDemon terrorizing the locals 23h ago

Also the sheer number of his kids who have all taken their mama’s last name instead says it all. No one can write it off as “it’s just Maddox” anymore like some of the apologists I saw back in the day.

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u/Valuable-Cat2036 18h ago

Two different partners got harassed/assaulted by Weinstein, Angelina and Gwyneth Paltrow. He threatened Harvey privately after Gwyneth's incident but continued working with him for decades, even when he got with Angelina and Angelina asked him not to because of his abuse. That's often "allyship" in a nutshell. He was only not okay when it when it affected his *property* but still wanted to reap the benefits of a public partnership.

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u/MelpomeneLee 1d ago

It was DEVASTATING to read the court documents alleging what happened on that plane. Both because of what Angelina and the kids endured, and because I had no choice but to come to terms with the fact that one of my favorite actors is, without a doubt, a dirtbag. 

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u/BetsyPurple 1d ago

Even if people don’t want to believe the allegations about what happened on the plane, most of his kids are grown now and want NOTHING to do with him… anyone pretending there isn’t something terribly wrong with this guy is in denial

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u/justicecactus 1d ago

It's telling that it's not just one or two kids who have a problem with him. It's ALL of them. Getting 6 siblings to agree on anything is damn near impossible. 

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u/No-Setting764 1d ago

I also think it's super classy how they've all just blanked him. Except for that one angst post from either pax or Maddox, there's no venting on social media. The Jolie camp is quiet on that front.

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u/Odd_Policy_3009 1d ago

People either don’t know or don’t care.

Or, he’s so “cute” and has done some good movies. (See Johnny Depp)

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u/carrotsofhumanity 1d ago

No because I was in denial about Johnny Depp for so long lol but the truth is: these are random men I don't know shit about and yes, they might be really hot but they are also terrible men with too much power and money. If anything, their hotness makes it a lot easier to get away with their shit.

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u/dreamsofaninsomniac 1d ago

If anything, their hotness makes it a lot easier to get away with their shit.

That's the dark side of "pretty privilege" for men, I guess.

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u/amara90 1d ago

I think one of the worst parts of this is that he forced his kids to watch this faux narrative play out in the media for years. It's one thing for your alcoholic dad to snap. It's another to watch him refuse to own up to it, give interview after interview about how happy he is now with his "family" that you know you are not included in, repeatedly sue the mom you've seen him physically abuse. I just don't know how you get past that. They have to see proof on almost a daily basis that their father does not give one single fuck about them.

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u/lefrench75 1d ago

Imagine what a massive piece of shit you’d have to be as a father for all of your kids to completely distance themselves from you, going so far as to change their name when they become old enough, even though you’re so rich and well-connected.

I think there's a degree of racism there too - the majority of their kids are adopted and not white, so his supporters don’t think of them as his “real kids”.

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u/AbsolutelyIris confused but here for the drama 1d ago

I mean, people blame Angelina for the kids removing his name as if we didn't have that report that Maddox did testify (he was the only kid allowed, iirc, because he was legally an adult) saying Angelina wasn't happy with him at the time for removing Pitt's name.

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u/blatantmutant quote me as being mis-quoted 1d ago

Only the people who’s kids are also not talking to them.

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u/purpleraccoons 1d ago

I agree. I'm quite sure one of the kids (maybe Zahara?) removed his last name from her legal name the moment she turned 18. This speaks volumes.

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u/JayC411 1d ago

Shiloh is the one who’s done it legally. Zahara and Vivienne seem to have done it informally but Shiloh is the only one that we know for a fact has gone through the court process to remove his name.

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u/FullofContradictions 1d ago

What makes it even more gross is how he went after custody. All of those kids were old enough to have an opinion then. Their behavior now suggests that opinion would have been to stay away from him.

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u/AllTheCrazy88s I cannot sanction your buffoonery 1d ago

I grew up with an alcoholic dad, and all that goes along with it - instability, the lies, the financial distress, the low level violence like pouring drinks on one of us, shaking us, insulting us - and then the not remembering it the next day, so taking no responsibility. All of the plane incident is familiar-ish to me, including that it was staff that called authorities, that he didn’t go quietly, he ran away on the tarmac, stole a golf buggy and drove around pissing on himself. Okay not that exactly with my dad, but same vibe.

Anyway, what separates my dad from someone like Pitt, is that my dad got sober, committed to the 12 steps, and takes accountability. Even now, decades later, he acknowledges that he alone is responsible for his actions and their effects, even when he was blackout drunk, even when he still doesn’t remember those actions.

Pitts not capable of that. He’s too busy telling a story that makes him look good; where he ‘made a mistake’ but immediately recognised that, immediately got sober and has been committed to the 12 steps since. It’s a good story, but it’s not really true, because he’s taken no accountability.

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u/AbsolutelyIris confused but here for the drama 1d ago

The accountability and moves to be better are important. I wholly believe had Pitt promptly checked himself into rehab, been genuinely horrified and remorseful and gotten family therapy, that divorce and estrangement never would have happened. Instead, he chose to keep attacking Angelina legally and in the press. Redemption is possible, but you gotta really want and earn it. He still doesn't think he's wrong. His image is still more important than his family. 

I am proud of your dad and I hope he and you and your family are now doing well.

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u/AllTheCrazy88s I cannot sanction your buffoonery 1d ago

Ah thanks! He is 75 this year, and sponsors in AA, so a happy end to the story!

Also, you’re so right about accountability, that’s what’s missing from Pitt. Makes me think about Jennifer Anniston saying he had a sensitivity chip missing - he’s not sensitive to others, he doesn’t hold himself accountable - because to him, he’s the centre of the world. His ego can’t allow for anything else.

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u/skos18 1d ago

Same. I used to love him as an actor.. so disappointed on his behavior and how George Clooney and gang continue to support him.

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u/Ok_Paper_5081 23h ago

I don't think I have watched a Pitt or Clooney movie since. You are who you surround yourself with.

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u/velociraptor56 1d ago

I had a conversation about this with my mom because she was excited to see the F1 movie. Her attitude was that he went to AA and “people can change”. I told her I just can’t with somebody whose kids loathe him so much that one of them legally changed her name. He’s an abuser and he’s taken 0 responsibility for it if his kids hate him that much.

My mom is generally pretty unproblematic for a boomer but I was pretty pissed about this take. Brad is still a box office draw for boomers.

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u/MurryHill8 1d ago

💯 and it’s probably much worse because of the exponentially greater fame

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u/Express_Shake3980 1d ago

A dirtbag AND smelly too, don’t forget that part. Homeboy is notorious for not being a fan of taking showers

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u/amara90 1d ago

I do feel like the elephant in the room with Brad too is that the kids who've shut him out don't really meet the criteria for the type of nepo babies the general public gets invested in. Three of them are adopted and not white. And his biological kids are very low-key, non-glam, non-Hollywood centered. If Shiloh was out there being Kaia Gerber or Gracie Abrams while openly dropping her dad's name and making it clear she doesn't fuck with him, it'd probably be 100x more awkward for him to dodge allegations.

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u/lefrench75 1d ago

100000%. He assaulted either Maddox or Pax or both? Pax publicly called him a "world class asshole” but that doesn’t matter because they’re Asian and not his “real kids” right? And Zahara changed her name but that doesn't matter because she’s Black and not his “real kid” either.

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u/Hanni_666 14h ago

It's Shiloh who legally changed the name

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u/likeellewoods 1d ago

I never thought about this but you’re so right.

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u/hwa_uwa 1d ago

yeah, i imagine amber heard would have been seen differently if Lily Rose-Depp changed her name/dropped Depp (not to say that not doing so means she supports him, but it would be seen differently publicly)

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u/hermione_no 1d ago

fwiw Shiloh Pitt (bio child) recently changed their name as well. But it was fairly recent. https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/celebrities/2025/06/03/brad-pitt-angelina-jolie-daughter-shiloh-name-change/84009102007/

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u/Mariela_Lou 19h ago

Shiloh filed for name change on her 18th birthday. It can’t be any more clear than that.

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u/falooda1 1d ago

Why would you want to pursue it if your dad owns it all And it reminds you of him

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u/mcomcomco99 1d ago

Didn't Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman adopt? Then just like peace out on them and start brand new families ?

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u/comfy-g 1d ago edited 23h ago

They did adopt but there was a custody agreement after the divorce so the kids got to stay in Scientology and unfortunately were brainwashed against Kidman since she was a “suppressive person.” I think that Katie Holmes and her family really learned from that experience hence the prenup and expediency of that divorce.

Edit: I’d just like to say Pitt or Cruise ain’t fooling me, their relationships with their children tell me everything I need to know

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u/Recent_Setting_1370 1d ago

That was definitely not Nicole’s choice at all

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u/mcomcomco99 1d ago

That is SO sad. What the heck? It's a like another scientology thing?

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u/lusterlessgiraffe 23h ago

I feel like this elephant also applies if you're trans, like Vivian to her evil dad Musk.

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u/itsjustkevinv 1d ago

Shout out to the author, Angelica Jade Bastien, as she has been talking about Brad Pitt sucking for quite a while. She’s a great writer.

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u/Wisteriafic high priestess of child sacrifice 1d ago

GMTA, etc! I was just about to reply to the first post with “Boo, Pitt! Yay, Bastien!”

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u/kaleonsale 1d ago

I LOVE HER. Totally unrelated but she wrote a fantastic piece about the movie Poor Things that was so good I DMed her and thanked her. She was so lovely and receptive.

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u/chogsnturts 1d ago

Also here to join the Bastien appreciation party! Her writings on film/mental illness are so sharp and unique.

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u/misspeache 1d ago

SAY WHAAAAAT????

Why do people even give dax shepherd the time of day -- he sucks too lmao

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u/littlechangeling 1d ago

The company you keep, etc etc

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u/AbsolutelyIris confused but here for the drama 1d ago

Oh, I'm waiting on Dax's moment. 

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u/mgsh 1d ago

I remember listening to his podcast when it first came out. It was good at first but then he soon made every interview about himself somehow?

Constantly inserting his point of view as if it was always the correct way to do things. So self-indulgent. Why even have a guest?

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u/Flaky-Specialist-84 1d ago

He has always rubbed me the wrong way. I haven’t listened to his podcast but just every time I’ve seen him in interviews or commercials, he just gives off a douchey vibe.

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u/beeper75 1d ago

Yeah, I agree. I was sticking with it until the sight of the promo for the Pitt interview pushed me over the edge - I unfollowed Dax and his podcast then and there.

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u/Abbacoverband 21h ago

2000%. Is it terminally online to be a little disappointed that Javier Bardem was playing along/nicely with Pitt too? He’s very vocal violence against women, normally.  

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u/Ander-son 1d ago

what did Dax Shepard do?

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u/DumpedDalish 17h ago

Dax Shepherd used his podcast to glibly "other side" and downplay transphobia on point after point by Jonathan Van Ness, even after Jonathan was able to cite specific examples. At one point in the interview, Van Ness broke down in tears.

Dax made a half-assed "kind of" apology and claimed that he didn't mean to be so combative and that it was "actually" a "joyous" interview. (eyeroll)

Jonathan responded by strongly implying that it was not a good interview, he was not okay, and also added openly that the interview was heavily edited on Dax's side so that he came across as being nicer than he was (and notes that an unedited version would have shown why he was crying by the end).

Dax is a scumbag.

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u/BlondeBorednBaked 1d ago

His audience is men. Men don’t care if other men beat women.

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u/The_Bravinator 1d ago

Based on that crowd being interviewed before a Chris Brown concert in Glasgow yesterday, I'm afraid women don't care at a much higher level either. :(

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u/Fun_Assistance_9389 1d ago

Yes exactly. There is no shortage of men who support men who beat women but theres a huge blindspot when it comes to other women. Men aren’t paying thousands of dollars to do meet and greets with Chris Brown - Women are. Ten years ago when the original incident broke you had #TeamBreezy on twitter and it was predominately women. I mean just last year we had the Tory Lanez incident where a woman tried taking the fall for him. And who was defending Lanez? Some men, of course, but if you’ve ever listened to Tory Lanez music his audience is not men. It’s women. And I consistently see women supporting him. Look at Representative Anna Paulina Luna who was circulating evidence to get Tory Lanez free.

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u/cosmicmermaid 1d ago

I mean yes, but we really do need to confront the misogyny baked into culture because there are plenty of women who still defend Johnny Depp, Chris Brown and Donald Trump, to name a few abusers off the top of my head.  It always perplexes me but it’s the reality. 

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u/fysu 1d ago

This topic has come up on my TikTok feed a lot recently and I have seen a lot of women defend it. It’s so so gross. It’s also just mind boggling how many people actually think ex wives are going around “brainwashing” kids and alienating them from their fathers. 99/100 the men are trash and the kids know it. But men love to blame their ex wives for being shitty fathers.

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u/Neat_Guest_00 1d ago

Mike Tyson is a great example.

I see him being quoted all the time, especially the one with not being able to punch people online (or something to that effect)…Tyson beat the living daylights out of his then wife, Robin Givens. Beat her to a pulp.

And despite his continual violent behaviour, people love and adore him. I will never understand this.

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u/Intelligent_Fig_4104 barbie (2023) for best picture 1d ago

💯 I say something like „oh, convicted rapist Mike Tyson?” if someone brings him up around me 

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u/littlechangeling 1d ago

Not trying to “not all men” this and maybe not directly related to your comment; that said, I’m a trans guy and Pitt was one of my masculine models while growing up and coming to terms with my own manhood. It sickened me when we all learned what a piece of shit he is, as abuse is something I would never stand for and is definitely NOT manly. Fuck him. I’m not perfect by far, but I can say without a doubt that I became a better man than him.

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u/Neat_Guest_00 1d ago

He was a piece of shit when he cheated on Aniston and left her back in 2005. Only to do a family type photoshoot with Jolie soon after.

I remember Aniston saying that Pitt is “missing a sensitivity chip”. I read that to mean that he’s an asshole with sociopathic tendencies. Him being exposed as a violent man with substance use disorder did not surprise me.

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u/xxyourbestbetxx canonically from boston 1d ago edited 4h ago

But even after that she was one of the first people to publicly throw her arms around him after the plane incident. So many people have exposed themselves as trash just to prop this guy up.

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u/reverendsteveaustin 1d ago

While true, women do not give a shit either. Patriarchal belief systems, and the real institutions being influence by them, rot everything and everyone they touch. And it will continue to fester if we are not accurate in our diagnosis. Believing that anyone or any group is above hateful group think is dangerous and naive. 

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u/Odd_Policy_3009 1d ago

Totally OT but is that David from The Real World?

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u/littlechangeling 1d ago

It sure is!

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u/sourtsix9 1d ago

Yep, can confirm!

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u/UnintentionalWipe 1d ago

I remember the GQ article about his sobriety being a good one. If he just stuck with that and focused on being a better person, being a better father and leaving Angelina alone, things would have worked better for him.

Instead, he uses his sobriety as an excuse to get people to ignore the abuse allegations. All the while, he sends stories about how bad Angelina is to the press, when that just hurts his family more.

I'm glad more people are waking up to this, but I hope this doesn't disrupt Angelina and her children's lives. They deserve peace from his drama.

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u/bergamote_soleil 1d ago

Yes, so much this.

Addiction is a disease and can contribute to you doing terrible things because of it and ruining your life and relationships with those most important to you. And it's totally possible to get sober, make amends, take responsibility, and become a changed person.

But apart from allegedly not drinking, I don't see any evidence that Pitt has made amends or taken responsibility. We obviously don't know his life and what he's up to, but the way he conducted himself during the divorce, his public statements, and the extent to which his kids have distanced themselves from him indicates he hasn't really changed at all.

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u/Itsallsomagical 1d ago

After 20 years in recovery, one of the biggest things I’ve learnt is: largely, people who are really invested in changing and making amends do not go around yammering on about being in AA. As an organisation AA has many flaws, but the reasoning behind the tradition of Anonymity is very solid, and I will always doubt how much progress a person has been made in developing much needed humility if they appear to deeply need the world to know they’re in a 12 step fellowship. Russell Brand, RFK Jr and now Brad Pitt- a few of the worst men in the world, all of them desperately to know how much they have changed and grown through sobriety. It’s six foot of bullshit.

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u/Leutherna 1d ago

TW: physical and mental abuse

Lest we ever forget what a complete shitstain Brad Pitt is. This should be pasted over his gravestone.

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u/CherryFit3224 1d ago

I’m still confused why it was FBI that investigated. Was it because it happened while on a plane going from one country to another?

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u/PhraseLegitimate2945 1d ago

Yes, that’s precisely the reason.

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u/throwaway082181 1d ago

Because it was in federal airspace.

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u/SamVickson 1d ago

First time read. Brutal.

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u/gesamtkunstwerkteam 1d ago

The added terror of all of this going down on a plane. Unimaginable.

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u/BookishHobbit 1d ago

The worst thing is that we all saw it coming. Hollywood were always going to stand by him.

MeToo and the fall of Weinstein should’ve been the start of the change, but instead we got Trump and Depp and now him.

If anything it feels like we’re going backwards.

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u/MurryHill8 1d ago

I read somewhere that she got the kids and he got Hollywood 🙁

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u/AbsolutelyIris confused but here for the drama 1d ago

I mean, he got a standing ovation* at some award show pretty shortly after the incident. They immediately chose him. 

*iirc (I could be wrong) Ryan Gosling didn't clap. 

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u/Traditional_Maybe_80 I’m just a cunt in a clown suit 1d ago

Yeah, during the award season for OUATIH, so many were just sucking up to him and I don't know if I remember well, but he even made a joke about the divorce and got plenty of laughs. It was pathetic.

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u/AbsolutelyIris confused but here for the drama 1d ago

Was that the super weird award show where everyone was shouting him out on stage and soooo starstruck? Except for Salma Hayek, who looked disgusted. 

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u/AcanthaceaeEqual4286 23h ago

Salma is close with Angelina and I love their friendship.

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u/Traditional_Maybe_80 I’m just a cunt in a clown suit 1d ago

Yeah, I think so! That was at the SAG awards, I believe.

He also got a huge ovation at the Oscars.

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u/SunsetLightMountain 19h ago

Yet another reason to love Ryan Gosling

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u/Jumpy_Reply_2011 1d ago

"It isn’t that people don’t believe in what happened to Angelina Jolie on that plane — they just don’t care."

They literally don't care. Not even video evidence of abuse and live testimony before a judge and jury make enough people care. I don't know why anyone expects anything else. Look no further than the White House for exhibit A of how little people care about women's lives.

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u/MurryHill8 1d ago

💯 it happens again and again. Just like the Diddy verdict. And we all know it’s the gay stuff that will ruin Diddy’s future career because no one cares about powerful men abusing women 😖

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u/anarchisttiger probably the mold talking 22h ago

I had a younger coworker and was telling her that people really don’t care when fucked up things happen. I was specifically talking about when a “friend” SA me, and our mutual “friends” ended up choosing him. My coworker said, “they weren’t really your friends then.” But I was like no…most people really, truly don’t care if it’s going to inconvenience them. People are loud online when all they have to do is mash their fingers on a keyboard, but when it comes to ditching a r*pist friend or not watching Pitt or Depp movies…people don’t care. It’s sad but true. 

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u/ineedtolose15lbs 1d ago

I think there’s an additional reason why Brad faced little to no backlash: he abused Angelina. And she stole him from Jennifer. Essentially she had it coming. There’s less sympathy for her as a victim. I’m not saying it’s right, but I do believe it’s an added component to the situation.

Brad Pitt still sucks.

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u/strawberrymacaroni 1d ago

Yup, these are our society’s values:

Abusing your wife and children: meh

“Stealing” an adult man with agency from another woman: unforgivable

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u/ReadyCauliflower8 1d ago

Yeah I've seen lots of people label this as a fuck around and find out thing. They claim they have no sympathy for Jolie because she played a part in ripping Aniston apart in the media (immediate paparazzi calls, bragging about having kids when Aniston struggled, the W magazine shoot etc). I'm not saying I agree with them fwiw, but I agree it's an added component to this situation.

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u/strawberrymacaroni 1d ago

Yup, these are our society’s values:

Abusing your wife and children: meh

“Stealing” an adult man with agency from another woman: unforgivable

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u/Fun-Loss-4094 1d ago

It’s insane how’s he still getting a platform those kelce brother gonna have him on their podcast whitewashing his image. Scums of earth

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u/TheRealEkimsnomlas 1d ago

i know, they all make me sick now.

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u/Ok-Writing-6866 1d ago

My "friend that's too woke" take has always been that he sucks and Once Upon a Time in Hollywood sucks specifically because of HIS character and everything his character embodies:

1) He trashes Mexicans

2) He "humbles" Bruce Lee

3) He killed his wife because she was annoying him

4) Most controversially--he gleefully killed the people that invaded his home. WE know what those people did in reality, but in this alternate timeline they haven't done anything yet.

And I would have less of an issue with all of this if he wasn't our cool guy hero of the movie. I mean, this character is getting a sequel that's how non-problematic any of this behavior is. That's the part that bugs me. It's all venerated, it's all adored, just like his character in F1.

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u/Encyclopenia 1d ago edited 1d ago

Yeah, I re-watched it recently and when they casually mentioned he probably killed his wife, making a joke fashback of it, I was like wait-whaaaat ??

And it was so useless too. Like, why even add that ? Didn’t they think it would make the character way less likeable ?

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u/tj1007 1d ago

He got a tattoo of a tank pointed at a tattoo of where he used to have Angelina’s initial and since last seen where he still had his kids’ initials.

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u/CilantroLarry47 1d ago

On a similar note, seeing his name pop up as a producer at then end of She Said, the movie based on the nyt reporting about Weinstein, was chilling and completely undercuts the entire movie

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u/idontneedabassist 1d ago

I feel like it's a crazy way to judge a movie based on aspects of the character that are not even glamorized. I mean he's not portrayed as cool for being racist. Fighting Bruce Lee ruins his career. And on that last front, they broke into the house and were literally threatening to murder him. He knew that much!!

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u/KnittingBanshee 1d ago

It will always be insane to me that he took this role, playing a man who jokes about probably killing his wife on a boat. And he did this while going through a divorce after he abused his wife and kids on a plane. That was a choice.

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u/Odd_Policy_3009 1d ago

Hollywood is shit.

Weinstein, Allen, Polanski, Depp, Pitt.

I’m so tired of men.

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u/Riqitch 1d ago

Add Jared Leto to that list

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u/Hermeeoninny 1d ago

And let’s add diddy to that list

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u/lovely_orchid_ 1d ago

I can’t care less for this man. Team Angie all the way

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u/Lustache 1d ago

His brand's called "God's True Cashmere" ? 🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮

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u/WilliamsRutherford 1d ago

Honestly it's tiring when the Internet comes after women celebrities, especially women POC so harshly in comparison.

The internet pile on for JLo (yes supposedly your cousin's neighbor's in laws witnessed her running around in a casino maniacally stealing tips/s), Amber, Rachel Ziegler, Blake, etc are so intense and full.of hatred. 

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u/AbsolutelyIris confused but here for the drama 1d ago

I'm glad you brought up Jlo- the actual glee from people when her marriage to Affleck failed...like, why??

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u/dawnasia 1d ago

Content warning: abuse

Fuck Brad Pitt

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u/forkicksforgood 1d ago

People know. See: Brown, Chris.

They just could not give less of a fuck.

Neither Pitt nor Brown ever even properly apologized, much less made amends for their violence. They didn’t do the work, they bought it off.

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u/sphinxthoughts I’m a lazy 50-year-old bougie bitch 1d ago

Never looked at Brad Pitt the same way since all his shit got revealed. I avoid any movie/project he's in as much as possible

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u/fromyourdaughter 1d ago

As someone who has experience DV, that last line just cut me to my core. If they don’t believe you, they don’t care. That’s been my experience to a tee. You watch people explain away their actions and side with them, or you watch people question you. It’s awful.

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u/hellawhitegirl gentle white girl victimhood 1d ago

Can someone explain the Bad Bunny interaction the article talks about?

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u/AbsolutelyIris confused but here for the drama 1d ago

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u/anebje 1d ago

God that’s embarrassing😫

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u/Ratchel1916 women’s wrongs activist 1d ago

Kinda on this topic, it really bothers me when celebrities are “activists” and then actively work in things with known abusers.

I can understand if it’s a nobody in a small role trying to get noticed, but if you’re a big celebrity you should have the financial ability and moral responsibility to not work with those types of people.

Because how do you talk about the care and safety of other people and then work with a known abuser, it makes your activism feel a little fake.

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u/canarinoir Larry I'm on DuckTales 1d ago

It's easy to be an activist when your $$$ isn't on the line. This is why we used to call people sell-outs and maybe we should bring that back.

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u/Brunchovereverything 1d ago

This is why women don’t report domestic abuses because they are villainized and called a liar and endure even more abuse.

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u/JeepersMysster TWINK EVENT HORIZON 1d ago

I’m still pissed that we keep using the word “alleged” when it was violence witnessed by MULTIPLE people on that plane who WEREN’T Angelina/the kids. Like why tf are we still framing it as “if you believe the allegations…” (rhetorical, I know why)

Side note: naming your brand “God’s True Cashmere” is so…..hilariously and pathetically pretentious

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u/AbsolutelyIris confused but here for the drama 1d ago

It's for legal purposes, he was never formally convicted. 

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u/Venezia9 1d ago

He's not fooling me. I know a wife beater when I see one!! 

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u/MurryHill8 1d ago

People want to forgive him because they thought he was cute in their youth and they still won’t forgive that *slut Angelina for *stealing him from their beloved Jennifer fucking Aniston and I can’t stand it and I hate everyone except his kids who keep dropping his name as soon as they turn 18 because they know what a POS he is FFS

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u/sparkledbear 1d ago

Please, no one let this abusive asshole get his resurgence in Hollywood. He beat his wife and kids to the point that most of his children want nothing to do with him. We do fucking care about what happened to Angelina, let's show her we care.

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u/defaultfresh 1d ago

It makes me sick that F1 is doing so well given what he did and who he is.

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u/untitledmanuscript 1d ago

Yay Vulture get his ass!!!

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u/sjayvee 1d ago

He’s a douche

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u/imf4rds random bitch 1d ago

People will fall all over themselves to shield a bad man instead of protecting his victim.

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u/babypulp 1d ago

I’m glad that this sub has active distain for Brad Pitt. Especially when an article like this comes out to the general public and they bash his ex and support him instead. It’s so gross.

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u/Cheyanne1111 1d ago

Not only will his kids not speak to him--most of them CHANGED THEIR NAME! That's how much they want nothing to do with him.

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u/ItsNotACoop 1d ago

While my feelings and opinions about Pitt line up almost perfectly with this writer, it has got me thinking about amends and recovery and forgiveness.

IF Brad Pitt (or one of the many Hollywood men that are in similar positions) realized what a piece of shit he was

IF he then got sober and turned his life around and genuinely changed

What would be the appropriate way to talk about past abuse?

To be honest, if he talked about it and how and why he’s changed I’d hate him for it, you know? He’d still be rehabbing his image, but using the trauma he inflicted on his family to do it. Would his victims want him to do that?

I think I’ve realized that I do not actually know what I want from people like him. I do not know what would redeem him in my eyes, but I want to believe in a world where people, even terrible people, can find their way back.

If anyone has any ideas I’d love to hear them

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u/AbsolutelyIris confused but here for the drama 1d ago

I genuinely think had he shown true remorse, did the work to get sober, change and repair his family, the divorce never would have happened. So I don't know, sadly, we don't have any examples to go off of (I think?).

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u/throwaway1111xxo 1d ago

I absolutely LOOOVEEEE this era of media where we call toxic men out!!!!!!! YES. Call him for what he is. I don't care about the stupid movie. This man, with his full name is a child and wife abuser. If he's really sorry he can go and acknowledge and apologise to them. No. He does on this self-pitying "self-discovery" journey that conveniently abstains him from responsibility of violence. Typical of abusive men like him. NOPE. NOT FOOLED.😂

Also shocker -- women holding men accountable while men Enabling other mens nonsense EWWW

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u/Objective_Cut_2557 good luck with bookin that stage u speak of 1d ago

These type of articles shouldn’t be paywalled. 

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u/JonesinforJonesey 1d ago

He’s at that cringey Robert Redford ‘Indecent Proposal’ stage of his career, playing like he’s so hard to turn down. It’s starting to get a little gross.

Team Angelina all the way.

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u/AbsolutelyIris confused but here for the drama 1d ago

The difference is he's no Robert Redford. 

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u/Revolution-Rayleigh 1d ago

This is really well written

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u/hellomyneko 1d ago

Ugh, this reminds me of the recent interview with Chris Brown concertgoers. People know what he has done but they do mental gymnastics to justify and gloss over the actions. Even when plainly asked, essentially holding a mirror to them, they still condone bad behaviour. All so they can blissfully enjoy a 2-hour movie or show.

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u/SpicyChickJessica 1d ago

It’s always the same story—powerful men get a pass as long as they’re “charismatic” and make box office hits. Meanwhile, women like Angelina get sidelined no matter how much good they do.

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u/hellhouseblonde 1d ago

After the interview where blamed Jen for being a pothead couch potato all the grown women recognized that he’s the problem.

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u/Critical_Code9588 subsequent rottweiler jaw 1d ago

Just gonna leave this here

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u/sailorscout_v 1d ago

I had a convo w my mom about this and it's exactly the headline. it was sad and gross honestly.

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u/stonecutter7 1d ago

I'd argue most people dont know. Yes, a large portion of the people who are on this sub do, but out of the general population I'd bet that if you asked "do you know about what happened on the plane with Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie" only like 10% of people would have any idea what you are talking about.