Brad Pitt is reportedly trying to reconnect together with his children after being estranged from a lot of them since his split from their mother, Angelina Jolie.
Insiders say the actor hopes he can “make amends” together with his youngest children, twins Knox and Vivienne, and has allegedly reached out to them ahead of their seventeenth birthday this weekend.
Meanwhile, Brad Pitt is alleged to have “accepted” that he and Angelina Jolie will at all times “be at odds,” amid their continuous clash over their French winery Château Miraval.
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Brad Pitt Keeps Door Open To His Estranged Kids
Pitt will not be giving up yet on being present and energetic within the lives of his children, despite being estranged from them for years now.
The “Fight Club” star announced his split from ex-wife Jolie in 2016 following a non-public jet incident that allegedly saw Pitt hit the address and a few of the kids.
What followed was a years-long divorce and custody battle through which the youngsters seemingly sided with their mom and kept their distance from the actor. Some even went so far as dropping his last name, and his son Pax called him a “world-class a-shole” on Father’s Day in 2020.
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Despite this, Pitt is trying to “make amends,” especially together with his youngest children, Knox and Vivienne, and is “desperate” to reunite with them ahead of their seventeenth birthday. The actor is “praying” they’ll be willing to offer him a likelihood, but has not heard any word back.
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The Actor Is ‘Desperate’ To Reunite With His Twin Kids
A source told the Each day Mail that Pitt is desperately trying to make amends with Knox and Vivienne and has tried several times to reunite with the teenagers.
“Brad’s desperate to offer it one final shot to get along with them and make amends, although he knows the possibility they’ll conform to spend time with him is distant, to say the least,” the source said.
“Thus far there’s been no word back from the twins or their reps,” the insider continued, explaining that when “Vivienne dropped Pitt from her name, he got the message loud and clear,” and was “totally devastated” by the move.
Nevertheless, a “glimmer of hope” emerged for Pitt because Vivienne’s brother, Knox, “has kept Jolie-Pitt as his surname.”
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Brad Pitt Has ‘Accepted’ He’ll All the time Be ‘At Odds’ With Angelina Jolie
Pitt and the “Maleficent” star began dating in 2004 and tied the knot a decade later in 2014. Unfortunately, the wedding only lasted 2 years.
Throughout their 12-year romance, they expanded their family and now share six children together: Maddox, Pax, Zahara, Shiloh, and twins Vivienne and Knox.
Amid their legal battles, one other insider told the Each day Mail that Pitt has “accepted” he’ll proceed to be “at odds” with Jolie, but will not be closing the chapter on his relationship with their children just yet.
“Brad is a family man,” the source said, noting that the love he once had for Jolie and all their kids is something that is still “very necessary to his life.”
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“Now that he and Angie are at odds, and have for years, he has accepted that [that] is the way in which it’s going to be along with her. But in the case of their children, he’ll at all times wish to be an anchor of their lives,” the insider explained.
“There’s a bond that folks have with their kids, and Brad can be very glad to have all of them back within the fold of his life,” they shared.
The Actor Is Not Ready To ‘Give Up’ On His Kids
The source went further to elucidate that the “F1” star will not be able to “hand over” yet on his children and has done all he can to get back of their good graces.
Last 12 months, when Pax was involved in a motorbike accident, Pitt was “distraught” and “frightened,” and reportedly tried to achieve out, but the youngsters “won’t take his calls.”
“He’ll at all times imagine and at all times hope there’s a likelihood to be back with all of them, and he doesn’t wish to think otherwise,” the insider shared, per the Each day Mail. “He doesn’t want to offer up, he isn’t that sort of guy, he isn’t that sort of father. He’s a proud father, and he can be glad to have them see that eventually.”
The insider added that the youngsters now “must make the move because he has tried over and once again to get back of their good graces.”
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Brad Pitt’s ‘Biggest Regret’ Revealed
The 61-year-old Oscar winner has seemingly had a rethink and is able to move on from his past with Jolie.
“The divorce is something that had been controlling his life for thus a few years,” a source told UsWeekly of his split from the “Tomb Raider” star. “He loved her, and he knows he made mistakes.”
“It was such a divisive, toxic situation,” the insider said of their split, adding that the circumstances surrounding it “turned the youngsters against him,” but that the actor “doesn’t blame [Jolie] for every part.”
The source explained that Pitt’s “biggest regret” is that he cannot repair the broken relationship together with his kids, adding that “the case is over, but there aren’t any winners.”
“To have that behind him is a relief. But however, it has been hard for him because he doesn’t have an ideal relationship together with his kids,” the insider noted.
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While the couple has settled their divorce, there’s still an enormous legal war brewing between them over their french winery, Château Miraval.
In the most recent development, the actor asked a court to force Jolie’s company, Nouvel LLC, to sit down for a deposition regarding their initial investment within the winery. Jolie sold her stake within the winery to a subsidiary of the Stoli Group, Tenute del Mondo, prompting Pitt to sue her, accusing her of breaking an agreement.
To take things further, Pitt made a more aggressive legal move by demanding private communications between Stoli Group’s Alexey Oliynik and Jolie regarding the sale of her stake in Château Miraval.