I just...is this serious? I can’t anymore. Because no, that is definitely not what’s happening here.

Jolie didn’t leak the divorce announcement. Tabloids got it from the legal filing. The original story of the divorce included the fact that the reason for the filing was because of substance and anger issues on Brad’s part.

Me too. I’m also imagining it from Angelina’s perspective. Maddox is her first child. The one she chose and raised by herself for several years. That’s her first baby. There’s something special there with that relationship. I’d leave my spouse too if he ever put a hand on my child.

Same. I was just saying in another comment that all this has been proving to me that lots of stuff in my childhood that was dismissed as NBD or even blamed on me was, in fact, incredibly fucked up. I have been in Maddox’s shoes during scenes like the one described and reading about it has brought some....icky stuff…

“He did not hit his child in the face in any way. He did not do that; he is emphatic about that. He put his hands on him, yes,”

So strange and surreal how mildly triggering this story has become for me. All the speculation and parsing what exactly happened, I find myself imaginging it from Maddox’s perspective and thinking how he must be feeling right now. My heart goes out to him.

Look, this is Brad Pitt’s version, so the question of what exactly happened beyond this seems not that important, frankly. Whether or not the video shows anything physical does not matter. It is not in dispute. Whether every parent would decide to divorce based on this incident alone- of course not. But, for some…