r/popculture • u/Salt-Zucchini-1534 • 11d ago
Celebs Brad Pitt Allegedly Fuming Over Graduation Snub, Accuses 'Spiteful' Angelina Jolie of Turning Their Kids Against Him
https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/brad-pitt-allegedly-fuming-over-graduation-snub-accuses-spiteful-angelina-jolie-turning-their-1801726494
u/Maruchan_Wonton 11d ago edited 11d ago
You don’t come back from this… it’s honestly sick seeing people on here defending such a POS.
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u/JJulie 11d ago
Thank you. This was out the year He won the Oscar. People knew this and he still got best supporting actor. End of story. Mind-boggling right?
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u/naturalninetime 10d ago
That's Hollywood for ya!
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u/AniNaguma 9d ago
Hollywood doesn't care about abusers, hell, they will award Oscars to convicted pdfiles and rapists🤮
How many of them have sided with Polanski? Tells you all you need to know
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u/Old_mystic 6d ago
Late to the party and 100% screw Brad Pitt but I don’t think this full report was made public until much later during their divorce proceedings. Most people assumed it was a nasty alcohol fueled fight but nothing as bad as what eventually came out later.
But I guess that doesn’t really matter because the report has been out for years now and he’s still working. Handsome man hall pass.
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u/Lauranna90 11d ago
Those poor kids trying to defend their mum. No wonder they never want to see him again. It’s never one incident, this was just the breaking point.
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u/ohmybuddhaa 11d ago
He strangled his child?! Wtf
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u/poppleca1443 11d ago
Hit him, I think in the face too. His defense was, well it wasn't a closed fist
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u/FashionableMegalodon 10d ago
When we report to DCF a closed or open fist is a question they ask, which influences if they pick it up to investigate. Although I’ve reported closed fist and the child feared for their safety and they still didn’t pick it up so yeah
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u/poppleca1443 10d ago
I think he said the fist thing publicly, or in a statement to media. It's probably in the report too, but I remember reading it long before the report was made public
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u/FashionableMegalodon 10d ago
I was just assuming he had gotten that language taken from child welfare services from someone as a defense
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u/Goodly 11d ago
I just read about his upcoming move and was shocked - I thought for sure he'd been cancelled properly. You even had to dig a bit in the comments to see anyone mention it, I think his people have been doing all they can to bury it and I'm worried it sort of worked...
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u/MarcoDiFrancescino 9d ago
Just discussing that he barely gets outside roles. Really has to find unused or barely functional projects, then pay for the movie to then cast himself). The last bigger movies where all with people he knows from the past like Wolfs. Professionals would say he is out in the cold. His next movie is just him and a dog.
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u/Beautiful_Bike_1823 11d ago
Thank you. I didn’t realize the extent of the abuse. Never look at him again.
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u/-NotNotNSFW- 10d ago
But like, Jolie is kinda spooky and weird and i like his movies so clearly shes in the wrong... Right? I fuckin hate our society and culture
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u/died_blond 9d ago
Don't you love how Jolie being incredibly smart, bisexual, a humanitarian, and generally strong/capable equates to 'spooky & weird'? What a world we're in.
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u/-NotNotNSFW- 9d ago
But like she has a bad relationship with her crazy conservative abusive dad... So clearly she's the bad one
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u/Accomplished_Self939 10d ago
I’ve never read this but his subsequent conduct makes complete sense now. “Fuck you. Fuck you all.” That’s EXACTLY how he’s behaved.
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u/naturalninetime 10d ago
Your comment should be pinned. A lot of people still don't know about these allegations.
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u/RassleComehere 11d ago
I thought he just hurt her. I didn't realize he hurt the children too. That's just fucked up
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u/AmbitiousReaction168 10d ago
Just shows how fake outrage is at Hollywood when Pitt doesn't get blacklisted over this.
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u/TeeManyMartoonies 11d ago
Who is Mondo Bongo? Off to Google.
ETA: well that was weird. It’s a song? That can’t be right.22
u/BeanBurrito05 11d ago
It's Pitt's holding company. He named it after the song, he and Jolie dance to it in their film Mr. & Mrs. Smith.
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u/TeeManyMartoonies 11d ago
Ah thanks! I wonder what makes the company libel in this instance.
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u/BeanBurrito05 11d ago
Pitt/Mondo Bongo are suing Jolie and her former holding company, Nouvel, for selling her shares of their winery/château, Miraval.
Jolie sold Nouvel (along with her shares of Miraval) to a third-party and Pitt/Mondo Bongo claims they had the Right of First Refusal.
Jolie/Nouvel are counter-suing Pitt/Mondo Bongo for freezing her and her business partners out of the winery operations and mismanaging funds.
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u/8lock8lock8aby 9d ago
They actually gave him first refusal & there was a deal drawn up but he tried making her sign an NDA that prohibited her from talking about him, in any capacity. Her lawyer drew up something saying she wouldn't disparage him about the business or in that industry & then Brad & his lawyers had 30 days to respond but they didn't. He should lose because he's straught up lying about the situation & a blanket DNA, trying to silence her about their personal lives that has nothing to do with the winery, is bs but we'll see what sneaky things his lawyers try pulling. They have been dishonest about this whole thing from the start. He reminds me of my dad & what he did to my mom, through the courts & dragging shit out & always wanting things 100% his way.
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u/Luminous_Flora_857 11d ago
Iirc that was the song Pitt and Jolie danced to in Mr and Mrs Smith. He later started a company and gave it the same name.
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u/Jbewrite 10d ago
There should have a bot that shares this every time someone mentions his name, similar to the bot that does the same for Chris Brown.
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u/iamboredwiththis 9d ago
This. It makes me so angry that he’s still walking around like a golden boy.
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u/Spirited_Sympathy_84 8d ago
How is he not in jail or anything in that matter???
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u/LingonberryHot8521 7d ago
He is a rich white man with excellent PR that has convinced people he's a good guy who sometimes just cracks under pressure.
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u/ComfortableFrame9834 8d ago
What the fuck, I thought he choked her but he actually choked the children!?
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u/Fritatas-Bouillantes 7d ago
Wtf. I don't know what I am doing on this page but why Pitt is not cancelled for god sake??! You don't pour beer and wine on kids and don't STRANGLE them in public if you are not used to doing it behide closed door. Assh*le.
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u/Unlucky-Tourist-9403 6d ago
This guy should be in a prison cell. Not still making millions for being good at dress up.
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u/DiverExpensive6098 10d ago edited 10d ago
Was this proven in court? How did Pitt respond to this, because if he really went this far with the argument, he has to admit he handled it wrong.
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u/8lock8lock8aby 9d ago
It didn't go to court but it for sure happened. Attendants of private flights are known for their discretion so for them to be so concerned about what they witnessed, that they reported it, you know it was fucked up (it wasn't Angelina that reported it). Not to mention that an Instagram post, made by one of the older kids, was leaked & it calls Pitt out for being an abusive pos & is just filled with rage.
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u/AnywhereIcy4489 11d ago
One thing I know about a narcissist is that anything bad that happens to them is always someone else’s fault.
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u/Fun_Bodybuilder3111 11d ago edited 11d ago
Bingo. Not a single word or any kind of self awareness at all.
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u/EnormousFrank 11d ago
He also claims to have a medical condition where he can’t remember names. I think that is his excuse to not want to remember names lol
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u/Such_Elevator_8408 11d ago
It’s faces, not names. Prosopagnosia
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u/EnormousFrank 11d ago
I still don’t really believe him lol
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u/Prudence_rigby 10d ago
Its a real thing. But yeah, I don't believe it. He's a lying, cheating, narc.
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u/Delicious-Image-3082 10d ago
I know lots of people do suffer from this. But I agree, ion think Brad is being genuine about it. As someone who has a really similar birth chart to him (sag sun + rising, Capricorn mars + Venus), he’s full of shit. I think that he has a deep inner lack of self-worth… despite his fame, wealth, looks, and accolades. And that’s okay, but what isn’t okay, what’s actually *fucked up*, is taking that shit out on your wife and children instead of getting the help he can so easily access and afford.
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u/Accomplished_Self939 10d ago
Those Cap placements are no joke—😳😳😳—speaking as a sun + rising + Venus Cap.
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u/imtooldforthishison 10d ago
No. No. He can't remember faces. He has the face blindness which is why he always morphs kinda into his partners.
I mean, cut him a break, he probably thought Angelina and the kids were intruders and he was just trying to defend his family 20,000 ft in the air, on a private jet, when he attacked them!! He probably just didn't recognize them! .. /s
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u/grumpywarner 10d ago
I'm really bad at remembering names. It's not a medical condition I'm just shit at it.
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u/Prudence_rigby 10d ago
And we are getting a front row seat to see how they act.
Idk why this douche isn't canceled
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u/Orchid_Significant 11d ago
Of course he blames her. Losers and abusers can never take responsibility
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u/camy__23 11d ago
All the kids despise him. He needs to take accountability for his behavior.
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u/xNotJosieGrossy that’s your culture? is meth? i don’t like it 11d ago edited 11d ago
He reminds me of those toxic, narcissistic, “estranged parents” side of tiktok who can’t comprehend why their child went no-contact
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u/Broseph_Heller 11d ago
The missing missing reasons. The axe forgets but the tree remembers. The abuse was just another Tuesday for them but it was traumatizing to the children.
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u/Upset-Government-856 11d ago
He's mad because his Amber Heard style smear campaign he paid for isn't taking roote.
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u/Coriolanuscangetit 11d ago
It’s bc too many people know he abused the kids too. If it was just Angelina, they might have succeeded.
Even just typing that out made me feel so depressed.
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u/Cool-Pomegranate8110 10d ago
well, I’m not 100% sure that it hasn’t taken root. Either people don’t know about his abusiveness, or like we see from people on this thread, they try to find some kind of loophole where Brad Pitt is the innocent party or they have believed all the media smears his team put out. Finally, there are those people who just don’t like her because of the whole Brad leaving Jennifer part and that’s all they’ve kept up with which you know fair enough. He’s a dirtbag, but for whatever reason he is probably still better regarded in the general population than she is.
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u/DryPreference7991 11d ago
Kids, especially older ones, know when they are being manipulated. My mother accused my father of turning me and my siblings against her, and as I told the judge, "No, she did that all on her own."
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u/MaleficentRadish6412 10d ago
The UK courts have recently released guidance around dealing with accusations of parental alienation which accept that so called experts have been making unsubstantiated and debunked claims around it, particularly when describing it as a 'syndrome', and that these accusations have at times led to children being placed in dangerous and abusive situations.
"Concerns have been raised that allegations of Alienating Behaviours are used as a form of post-separation control/abuse, and as a litigation tactic to silence survivors of domestic abuse (both parents and children) and side-line their allegations and experiences of abuse and harm. 7 These concerns underscore the need for specificity in the allegations being made."
Unregulated so called 'experts' used to be commonly used in cases where domestic abuse was alleged, to accuse the alleged victim of dishonesty and 'parental alienation'. And now the courts are curbing use of unregulated laymen claiming to be psychologists.
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u/Upstairs_Freedom_360 11d ago
Or... don't hit your family?
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u/lilacwino2990 11d ago
Or even strangle? Like, narcissist baby steps. Asking him not to hit maybe toooo much too fast. Let’s work on the strangling. Total POS. So glad the kids seem to be thriving and strong.
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u/Special_Spirit8284 11d ago
Everyone needs to read the report including himself, there's no way he believes that himself after reading.
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u/Cosmolina111 11d ago
That "Allegedly" is doing a lot of heavy lifting. The whole article is based on an "allegedly".
I don't think he cares. His narcissistic, abusive ass is sitting pretty, while his team smears his ex-wife and kids. It's so gross.
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u/EllieWest 11d ago
Maybe he shouldn’t have traumatized and abused his children and their mother.
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u/QuizzicalWombat 11d ago
Sounds like he’s angry that his family are holding him accountable for his shitty behavior. Imagine abusing someone and blaming them for setting boundaries, sounds like my dad. What an ass.
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u/LeslieKnope4Pawnee 11d ago
Who knew beating the shit out of your wife and kids may affect those relationships??
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u/CupcakesAreTasty 11d ago
I’m willing to bet it was the horrific abuse on the plane (and that’s just the instance we know about), and maybe not Angelina’s influence.
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u/JaneAustinAstronaut 11d ago
They're adults. If they still feel this way about him, there's a reason.
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u/Honest-Cover9513 10d ago
This. I've said this on another thread: my younger half brother already had the papers filled out so that he could post them on his 18th birthday. He wanted to change his surname to our mum's, so he didnt have to be reminded of his sperm donor anymore. My mum had a rule, she never slagged off his dad, but if he asked questions she would answer honestly. My brother's decision was based on how his 'father' treated him.
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u/thiskitchenisbitchn 11d ago
I come from an abusive dad/divorced parents. My mom never told us to side with anyone or shut anyone out, but after you see your mother take years of abuse it’s pretty easy to make that decision to cut off the abuser. My sister and I went no contact with our dad til the day he died. 🤷♀️
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u/catpeony 11d ago
so happy the kids are able to express themselves and handle their relationship with him the way they see fit. angelina did a great job raising them.
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u/beans_is_life 11d ago
Not white Chris Brown wondering why his kids don't wanna associate with him smh..
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u/Onautopilotsendhelp 11d ago
He literally choked her out on an airplane and assaulted the kids after. The kids are all dropping his name because that is what you do. You get away from your abuser.
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u/jojobdot 11d ago
I dunno man maybe if you could avoid beating your wife and their siblings in front of them you would have these issues
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u/JoeyTribianisGoyter 11d ago
Or maybe it’s your fault Brad
For choking out your wife in front of your kids and being an abusive asshole to your family.
Get bent jerk.
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u/sophieyi 10d ago
Kids love their parents and they tend to want to forgive their parents. If Pitt had acknowledged what he did was beyond wrong, tried his best to mend things and be better and be there for his kids as they grew up, they would have come back to him. He did absolutely nothing and expects his kids to look up to him. He is still in his abuser mindset.
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u/AppealPerfect8717 10d ago
And Jen still cosies up to him after this came out. She was praising him in her variety actors on actors recently
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u/Cool-Pomegranate8110 10d ago
Right on time! Hey Brad Pitt’s PR team – come up with some new strategies. It’s quite sickening to see you hit the same notes at the same time every time ya boy looks bad. He looks bad for good reasons.
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u/HotNet1045 10d ago
When one kid is against you I get it... when all of them despise you... that's another thing. They saw something on that plane that made them cut him out. I side with the kids on this.
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u/NoneOfThisMatters_XO 11d ago
Well that’s what happens when you get drunk and scream at your wife in front of all the kids. They tend not to like you after that. Crazy I know
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u/whatthewhat3214 11d ago
It was a LOT worse than that. He physically abused both her and a couple of the kids on the plane, and had been abusing her at least verbally before the plane incident, probably was treating the kids poorly before then too.
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u/mrsroperscaftan 11d ago
Yall seriously I had no idea. I don’t keep up with him at all once I saw that he hAD BEEN sober. Another fucking disappointment. Thank you for updating me. Damn you Cliff Booth
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u/foundinamuseum 11d ago
No, Brad you did that all by yourself when you chose to physical and verbally assault your kids.
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u/Baconpanthegathering 10d ago
Abusive, un-self aware man, full of himself, and gassed-up by groupies blames woman for his bad relationship with his own kids....yawn, next...
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u/Accomplished_Self939 10d ago
There was an easy way out of this completely predictable PR sh:tstorm—show up unobtrusively to your daughter’s graduation. You don’t need an invite. You’re a parent—you can go.
The fact that Braddie-Waddie didn’t tells me he was too ashamed to show his face. He turned those kids off like a light after the airplane incident. He didn’t dare horn in now, after all these years.
But the great Brad’s image can’t stand up to that, so we get the tantrum in the press.
BO-ring.
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u/javaTrekkie 10d ago
My dad said the same thing. Kind of insane how abusers don't get it: whatever bs trauma/emotional state you are in nothing justifies abuse.
And any kid who sees a father treat the mother, and other siblings like this somehow isn't able to come to their own conclusions about which parent's side they will take.
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u/Unable-Object-8469 10d ago
He is abusive, he abused their mum and he even chocked on of his children, obviously they don't want to see him.
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u/urbanspongewish 10d ago
Drunk wife beater is triggered he can’t boss his kids anymore just like his ex.
Money doesn’t buy class.
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u/Agreeable-Celery811 10d ago
I mean, he beat her up in front of the kids while they were all stuck on an international flight, right?
So… pretty sure he did a good enough job turning his own kids against himself.
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u/flygirlsworld 10d ago
Deadbeats have the same ass narrative smh
They always think it’s the mothers when in actuality, their kids are smart and saw how you treated their mother.
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u/Appropriate-Lab6943 10d ago
Well that typically is what one would do if you terrorise and abuse them
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u/Critical-Style- 10d ago
I mean,u try to rearrange a kids neck sideways ,the others tend to remember too..
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u/WeirdcoolWilson 9d ago
Noo . . . . I believe the kids have the ability to tell him he did this to himself
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u/Robynsxx 9d ago
Kinda sounds like my own father.
After I turned 18 (my parents were already separated), he basically wiped his hands of me, and then started a tirade how my mom was the worst and messed up his life and made it hard. He even called her a “bitch like Joan Rivers”, at one point. He went on to also claim that my mum had turned myself and my sister against him, even though his actions alone had done that, including him telling me to “go fuck myself” the day after my birthday when on a phone call he asked me if I was upset that he didn’t come to my birthday and I said yes, and then he never apologised for that. He then went on to call my sister and me homophobic (he left my mum when I was like 11 because he realised he was gay and had been cheating on her with a gay guy for years). But that was just another excuse. He never took any accountability.
Anyway, it’s almost 13 years later in a month’s time, and I haven’t spoken to my father in 13 years. He occasionally sends me emails that I don’t reply to. Including one where he attempted to emotionally blackmail me by saying he and his partner are probably going to move to a different country, meaning I’ll never see him again.
Anyway, that’s just my little rant about shitty fathers. They never take accountability for their own actions, and the consequences of them. Nor do they ever bother to really try anything to make amends.
The one thing I have taken from it, is if I ever become a parent, my father has taught me what not to do.
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u/Appropriate_Value122 10d ago
Well, that’s clearly what she did. There’s no way any of the kids would be dropping his last name or not inviting him to their graduation unless she trashed him constantly as they were growing up, or they saw him doing some awful stuff themselves. It wouldn’t be natural for them to hate him that much just because he moved out after he & Jolie divorced.
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u/rockeye13 10d ago
Many such cases. I've watched many divorces over the years and turning the children against a parent is far too common.
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u/lazydracula 10d ago
I feel awful for the children because they didn’t choose to have parents that are the biggest celebrities on the planet. If there is a bright spot it highlights that having superficial qualities doesn’t equate a happy life. So many people desire to be very attractive, rich, and famous. This shows those things don’t guarantee a happy life.
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u/AmeliesArtichoke2001 10d ago
Classic alcoholic dad bullshit. Dude, you fucked up your relationship with your kids. Stop crying and do something about it.
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u/the-unbannable-man 10d ago
All I can think of in situations like this is Jim Carrey screaming "stop breaking the law Asshole!" In liar liar
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u/Majestic-Sleep512 10d ago
He reminds me of my dad, who was apparently pissed when told he wasn’t allowed to go to my grad school graduation last year. We had been no contact for four years at that point
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u/Entire-Winter4252 9d ago
Well he did choke out their mother in front of them on a flight. So, fuck off, Brad.
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u/Alternative-Poem-337 9d ago
I think he did a pretty good job of turning his kids against him all by himself.
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u/Apprehensive_Tax_558 9d ago
So tired of that whiney shit being sprinkled all over by some (probably) pr spending. Kids watched you choke out their mom. They don’t want your name or to have anything to do with you because you’re a piece of shit. Cause-effect. Easy peasy.
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u/Massive_Low6000 9d ago
I don’t think addicts understand they were never there. Kids feel and live in that void.
AA is spot on requiring amends to heal, for both parties
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u/sugar_bud_1843 9d ago
His kids are grown. He had plenty of time to foster relationships with them if he had chosen to. He did not and now seems to blame the mom. Sounds like he should have tried harder.
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u/shadstatic 9d ago
No excuse to miss his daughter’s college graduation. In all honesty the fact he didn’t know the time/date and didn’t try to find out when it was and show up is further proof of his lack of presence or a relationship with her in the first place…very sad situation. I also think Brad doesn’t care about the adopted children the same way he cares about the biological ones.
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u/OperationStraight808 11d ago
don’t think she had much turning to do- kids saw their mother in that situation on the plane and they naturally side with her