Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt’s oldest child, Maddox Jolie-Pitt, has a strained relationship with his father. Despite keeping relatively quiet about his feelings toward Pitt, reports suggest that the two haven’t been on the best terms.
Jolie-Pitt was born in Cambodia in 2001 and adopted by Angelina Jolie a year later. At the time, Jolie hadn’t started dating her “Mr. & Mrs. Smith” co-star, and was raising him as a single mother. Eventually, she and Pitt started seeing each other in 2004, and the actor legally adopted Maddox a few years later. Maddox seems to be on Team Jolie, however, and even testified against his father in one of their previous custody proceedings. “[The testimony] wasn’t very flattering toward Brad,” an insider told Us Weekly in 2021. “He doesn’t use Pitt as his last name on documents that aren’t legal and instead uses Jolie.”
There might be hope for a reconciliation, as the source revealed Maddox was pleased that his father was working on his previous battles with alcohol addiction. “He doesn’t completely hate Brad, but he told the truth in the deposition he gave. He’s happy that his dad got help and is sober now,” the insider shared. Another source told inTouch Weekly that Pitt’s attempts to smooth things over on Maddox’s birthday went unnoticed. “He sent him a gift for his 21st birthday and a loving note as a last-ditch effort to make amends, but never heard back,” the source said.
