Brad Pitt Doesn’t Think His Drawn-Out Divorce From Angelina Jolie Was ‘That Major of a Thing’

At the end of 2024, eight years after Angelina Jolie filed for divorce from Brad Pitt, the couple finalized the separation on paper. They were officially divorced.

Brad and Angelina, or Brangelina, as they were affectionately named by the press, were married for just two years before their split, however, they’d been together for nine years in total. In that time, they welcomed six children into their family and become a Hollywood power couple.

The world was shocked when they announced their breakup, and curious when Jolie cited “irreconcilable differences” as the reason for it. Rumors began flying about Pitt’s sobriety, about an incident on a private jet, and about Pitt’s relationships with his kids. For the most part, all of this back-and-forth was lobbed by “anonymous sources” rather than directly from the couple themselves. Comments on the record were—and still are—pretty rare.

Now, in a May 28 cover story for GQ timed his latest film, F1, Pitt is reflecting on life under the microscope—specifically in the wake of the finalization of his divorce from Jolie. Does he feel any different “on the other side of the divorce?” GQ‘s Daniel Riley asked the actor.

Replied Pitt, “No, I don’t think it was that major of a thing. Just something coming to fruition. Legally.” (For her part, Jolie was “exhausted” at the conclusion of the settlement, per her lawyer: “She is relieved this one part is over.”)

Given the divorce proceedings lasted almost as long as the relationship itself, it might sound as though Pitt is trying to downplay what has been spun as one of the messiest divorces in Hollywood history. He assures Riley, however, that that’s not the case. It’s just the nature of celebrity.

“My personal life is always in the news. It’s been in the news for 30 years, bro. Or some version of my personal life, let’s put it that way,” he said.

Brad Pitt has been attached to his current girlfriend, Ines de Ramon, since 2022. And if you see them out and about, he told GQ, it’s simply a coincidence, and not a part of some grand master scheme to promote his film, or to retaliate against anyone in his life who’s potentially wronged him.

“Oh my God, how exhausting would that be?” he said when asked if his first public outing with Ramon was at an F1 race because of his movie. “If you’re living with making those kinds of calculations? No, life just evolves. Relationships evolve.”