Angelina Jolie told son Brad Pitt never wanted to adopt him

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Published on Sunday, 16 December 2018 13:03

Written by Mercury News

          Actor had concerns about adopting 3-year-old from Vietnam less than a year after couple’s first biological child was born, source says.The custody battle between Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt was more bitter than earlier thought and may have caused lasting damage to Pitt’s relationship with some of his children, notably his two teenage sons, according to a new report.Pitt, 54, “has accepted that he’ll likely never be able to repair” his relationship with Maddox, 17, and Pax, 15, a source told Us Weekly in a new report.It’s already widely known that Jolie, 43, suddenly filed for divorce in September 2016, shortly after some kind of altercation took place between Pitt and Maddox on a private plane returning from Europe. The incident sparked multiple investigations by the FBI and child welfare authorities, which ultimately led to Pitt being cleared of any child abuse allegations.In an interview several months later, Pitt admitted he had an alcohol problem but said he gave up drinking and worked out some other personal issues after Jolie filed for divorce.Amid all the tumult of the high-stakes divorce between Hollywood’s glamorous, globe-trotting super couple, Jolie reportedly told Pax that Pitt “never wanted to adopt him,” the source told Us Weekly. Jolie also told the boy that Pitt “was angry” that she had proceeded with the adoption.The couple adopted Pax in 2007 from Vietnam when he was 3 years old.Pax was their third adopted child. Maddox was adopted by Jolie on her own in Cambodia in 2002 when she was still married to Billy Bob Thornton. Jolie, a burgeoning international humanitarian, also adopted Zahara, 13, on her own from Ethiopia in 2005.After Jolie and Pitt began dating, he applied to adopt both Maddox and Zahara. The couple welcomed their first biological child, Shiloh, now 12, in May 2006.The Us Weekly source said that Pitt may been wary about adopting Pax because he felt he and Jolie already were overwhelmed by their growing brood of adopted and biological children. Pitt was especially concerned about adopting a 3-year-old who couldn’t speak English less than a year after they became parents to Shiloh.“It was a very difficult time for the couple,” the source said.But the actress and director told Pitt at the time: “Pax needs me more than Shiloh.”
          This dispute about if and how to grow their family “almost ended the relationship,” the source told Us Weekly. But in the end, Pitt stayed, and the couple became parents to two more kids — biological twins Knox and Vivienne — in 2008.Jolie apparently brought up Pitt’s concerns about adopting Pax to the boy during the turbulent fallout from her decision to divorce him, the source said.“It harmed his Brad’s relationship, though Brad denied ever saying that specifically,” the source told Us Weekly.After Jolie filed for divorce, the couple spent the next two years essentially leaking damaging details about each other while sparring over custody and visitation. Sources close to Jolie tried to depict Pitt as a man with alcohol and anger management problems who wasn’t willing to pay his fair share for the children’s expenses. But Pitt’s people made Jolie out to be vindictive, controlling and eager to drive a wedge between him and the children.Indeed, the private judge handling their divorce lent credence to Pitt’s claim by ordering Jolie in June to do a better job of encouraging Pitt’s relationship with the children. The judge created a detailed visitation schedule for the summer and told Jolie she had to allow him free phone and text communications with the children.Last months, lawyers announced that the couple had signed off on a custody agreement. The exact terms of the agreement were not disclosed, but sources told The Blast that Pitt will be able to spend more time with his six children over time and in stages.However, the actor didn’t receive the 50/50 arrangement he had been looking for, The Blast added. Still, in signing the agreement, the bitterly divided exes avoided a private trial that was supposed to start last week and was expected to get pretty nasty.Jolie’s attorney Samantha Bley DeJean told E! News that the agreement was based on the recommendations of a child custody evaluator, whom the children have been seeing over the past several months.“The filing and details of the agreement will remain confidential to protect the best interests of the children,” the attorney said.However, documents filed last week indicate that the couple still need to work out how to divide their property, which is estimated to be in the hundreds of millions of dollars. The documents said the court is “reserving jurisdiction over termination of marital or domestic partnership status and financial issues.”

 source : Mercury News