Brad Pitt Breaks Silence on Finalizing Divorce from Angelina Jolie After Intense 8-Year Legal Battle

Brad Pitt is speaking retired for nan first clip astir finalizing his divorce from Angelina Jolie aft much than 8 years of aggravated ineligible fighting.

While Pitt, 61, sat down pinch GQ to talk his upcoming racing movie F1 successful a characteristic published Wednesday, May 28, nan Oscar victor dismissed questions regarding whether he felt "relief" aft he and Jolie, 49, reached a colony successful their divorcement connected Dec. 30, 2024. Jolie had initially revenge to dissolve their matrimony successful September 2016.

“No, I don’t deliberation it was that awesome of a thing," Pitt said. "Just thing coming to fruition. Legally.”

Jolie revenge for divorcement from Pitt days aft a backstage level formation connected which she claimed Pitt was abusive to her and their six children. He was not charged by authorities aft investigations astatine nan clip and Jolie declined to property charges. The actors, who stock six children — Maddox, 23, Pax, 21, Zahara, 20, Shiloh, 19, Knox, 16, and Vivienne, besides 16 — began making love successful nan mid-2000s and joined successful 2014.

A typical for Pitt declined to corroborate aliases remark connected nan divorcement colony successful December. However, a root adjacent to Pitt told PEOPLE successful March that nan character was "happy that nan divorcement is down him" and that he and woman Ines de Ramon, whom he has been making love since 2022, are "in a awesome place."

James Simon, a lawyer for Jolie, told PEOPLE astatine nan clip of nan divorcement colony that nan character "has focused connected uncovering bid and treatment for their family" successful nan years since their high-profile divorcement conflict began. "This is conscionable 1 portion of a agelong ongoing process that started 8 years ago," Simon said successful that statement. "Frankly, Angelina is exhausted, but she is relieved this 1 portion is over." 

Pitt said candidly astir really his "personal life is ever successful nan news" while discussing F1, successful which he and Damson Idris costar arsenic Formula One drivers. "It’s been successful nan news for 30 years, bro. Or immoderate type of my individual life, let’s put it that way," he told GQ successful nan piece. When nan outlet asked Pitt whether he viewed making F1 arsenic "a refuge from each nan attention" he receives, nan character said, “Um, I don’t spot it that way."

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“It’s been an annoyance I’ve had to ever woody pinch successful different degrees, ample and small, arsenic I do nan things I really want to do," he said of his personage status. "So, it’s ever been this benignant of nagging clip suck aliases discarded of time, if you fto it beryllium that, I don’t know. I don’t know. Mostly I consciousness pretty…. My life is reasonably contained. It feels beautiful lukewarm and unafraid pinch my friends, pinch my loves, pinch my fam, pinch my knowledge of who I am, that, you know, it’s for illustration this alert buzzing astir a small bit.”

F1 releases successful theaters June 27.