How Brad Pitt Is Coping Amid Angelina Jolie Custody Battle

How he’s dealing. Brad Pitt is concentrating on work as he proceeds his custody battle with ex-wife Angelina Jolie, an insider solely reveals in the new challenge of Us Weekly.

“Brad has been holed up at his put,” the supply suggests of the Oscar winner, 58. “He once in a while enjoys downtime at his art studio. … He’s fast paced signing off on and brainstorming tasks all the time, [and his production company] Plan B is normally doing work on things.”

The Bullet Train star and the Maleficent actress, 46, who tied the knot in August 2014 following 9 decades collectively, were being declared lawfully solitary in 2019, but they are even now hammering out the aspects for custody of their 6 young children: Maddox, 20, Pax, 18, Zahara, 17, Shiloh, 16, and twins Knox and Vivienne, 13.

“It’s incredibly clear to him that Angie has long gone out of her way to delay and stall the process,” the insider tells Us. “All he can do is function with his lawful crew and file the paperwork even though responding to her claims. Thirty day period after thirty day period goes by with a person piece of purple tape just after a different, endless leaping through hoops and bickering in between their lawyers with no resolution.”

Immediately after the couple’s September 2016 split, an altercation on the duo’s private jet led to a kid abuse investigation of Pitt. Two months later on, Us confirmed that the Advertisement Astra actor was cleared by the Los Angeles County Division of Young children and Spouse and children Providers.

In his to start with job interview just after the break up, the Oklahoma native exposed that he’d been going to treatment and also manufactured the choice to get sober.

“I’m really, definitely content to be completed with all of that,” he informed GQ in Might 2017. “I necessarily mean, I stopped almost everything apart from boozing when I started off my household. But even this very last 12 months, you know — factors I was not working with. I was boozing also a lot. It is just turn into a dilemma. And I’m genuinely pleased it’s been fifty percent a yr now, which is bittersweet, but I’ve bought my inner thoughts in my fingertips all over again.”

In accordance to the insider, Pitt’s “sober buddies,” which includes Flea and Thomas Houseago, have been supporting him during the custody battle, but he’s “not going out and mingling in Los Angeles like he employed to” just before the pandemic. “His will to put on a delighted confront and have pleasurable out of his convenience zone has just form of dried up.”

He is, having said that, fired up to transform his home in France, which was a important point of contention all over his split from Jolie.

“The full estate is heading to be remodeled and preset up for these amazing new extensions, like the recording studio and other characteristics Brad’s customized-building himself,” the resource describes. “He loves that location and sees it as his religious dwelling in a great deal of means. He can be by himself or chill out with pals.”

In October 2021, the Preferred actress offered her stake in the winery organization of Chateau Miraval. An insider afterwards informed Us that Pitt wanted to invest in her shares, but she decided to promote instead.

“It’s been a section of his daily life and she had no desire,” the source informed Us in February, saying that Jolie marketed her element of the institution “just to punish him. She did it to harm him.”

That same month, the 7 star sued his ex-wife for allegedly marketing her stake at the rear of his back. In courtroom paperwork obtained by Us, Pitt more accused the Oscar winner of attempting to get profits that she did not receive and breaching their first settlement to only promote their stakes with mutual consent.

For additional on Pitt and Jolie’s ongoing struggle, check out the movie higher than and select up the new issue of Us Weekly, on stands now.