Angelina Jolie feared for the safety of her kids during marriage

In a bombshell interview, Angelina Jolie has claimed she feared for the safety of her children and family during her marriage to Brad Pitt.

Angelina Jolie claims she feared for the safety of her children and family during her marriage to Brad Pitt — and was attacked by Harvey Weinstein early in her career.

In a bombshell interview with The Guardian, Jolie obliquely talked about her never-ending divorce from Pitt while pushing about her new book Know Your Rights, stammering; “I … I’m still in my own legal situation,” including allegations of child abuse levelled at Pitt.

The actress claims she was scared for “my whole family” during the union.

“I’m not the kind of person who makes decisions like the decisions I had to make lightly,” she told the paper. “It took a lot for me to be in a position where I felt I had to separate from the father of my children.”

Angelina Jolie with her kids in 2019. Picture: Kevin Winter/Getty Images

Jolie and Pitt share six children: Maddox, 20, Pax, 17, Zahara, 16, Shiloh, 15, and 13-year-old twins Vivienne and Knox. Maddox is not included in the ongoing custody battle because he is no longer a minor.

Jolie filed for divorce in 2016. Pitt was cleared of child abuse allegations made by the Los Angeles County Department of Children and Family Services regarding an incident between him and Maddox on a plane from the US to Europe.

While the duo are now legally divorced, they are still battling over custody of their children.

The Inglourious Basterds actor was first granted joint custody of the former couple’s five minor children in May by Judge John W. Ouderkirk, but a California appeals court disqualified Ouderkirk because it was found that he did not adequately disclose business relationships with Pitt’s lawyers.

Brad Pitt speaks onstage during the 93rd Annual Academy Awards at Union Station. Picture: Todd Wawrychuk/A.M.P.A.S. via Getty Images

Ouderkirk, who declined to disqualify himself from their divorce when Jolie asked him to in a 2020 court filing, has a long past with the family. He even married Pitt and the Maleficent actress in 2014.

Pitt declined to comment to The Guardian.

When asked about the last five years, Jolie said the divorce had been “traumatic” and added: “I mean, in some ways it’s been the last decade. There’s a lot I can’t say … I think at the end of the day, even if you and a few people you love are the only people who know the truth of your life, what you fight for, or what you sacrifice, or what you’ve suffered, you come to be at peace with that, regardless of everything going on around you.”

Another issue she had with Pitt during their marriage was his willingness to work with rapist Harvey Weinstein whom, she claims, abused her.

“It was beyond a pass, it was something I had to escape,” said Jolie, who starred in Weinstein’s Playing by Heart when she was 21.

Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie at the premiere of Weinstein Co.'s Inglorious Basterds. Picture: Kevin Winter/Getty Images/AFP

“I stayed away and warned people about him. I remember telling Jonny, my first husband, who was great about it, to spread the word to other guys – don’t let girls go alone with him. I was asked to do The Aviator, but I said no because he was involved. I never associated or worked with him again. It was hard for me when Brad did.”

Jolie claims Pitt asked Weinstein to work as a producer for the noir thriller, Killing Them Softly, which the Weinstein Company later distributed.

“We fought about (Weinstein’s involvement),” Jolie said, noting of her then husband’s apparent eagerness to work with Weinstein, “Of course it hurt.”

This article originally appeared on the New York Post and was reproduced with permission

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