Brad Pitt ‘hits back’ after adopted son Pax branded Hollywood star a ‘world class a**hole’ and ‘f***ing awful human’ in explosive Instagram post
Brad Pitt appeared to hit back last night after his adopted son branded the Hollywood actor a ‘world class a**hole’ and ‘f***ing awful human’ in an explosive Instagram post.
Pax Jolie-Pitt, 19, called his father a ‘terrible and despicable person’ who makes his four youngest children ‘tremble in fear’ in an explosive rant posted to social media for Father’s Day 2020.
Pax posted the broadside at Pitt to the stories section of his private Instagram account when he was 16, alleging that life with the Hollywood star was ‘constant hell’, DailyMail.com revealed on Monday.
Now, as the contents of the three-year-old post have been made public, sources close to Pitt claimed that the 59-year-old finds it ‘depressing to see this dragged up’.
The insider told The Sun: ‘It’s frustrating to see Brad being painted as some kind of ”bad person” when it’s far from the truth.’ The source added that Pitt has ‘great respect’ for each one of his children and says it ‘speaks volumes’ that he ‘chooses to keep a dignified silence’ about the situation.
Angelina Jolie adopted Pax from an orphanage in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, in 2007. He was three years old and had been dumped as a newborn by his heroin-addicted biological mother.
Pitt, Jolie’s then-husband, formally adopted him the following year.
When Pitt and Jolie, 48, split in 2016 just two years after they had married in a private ceremony in France, the children stayed with their mother amid reports of an altercation aboard a private jet between eldest son Maddox and his father.
Now it is clear that the relationship between Pax and Pitt is also troubled with the 19-year-old accusing his dad of making his life ‘hell’ in the extraordinary social media rant.
‘You have made the lives of those closest to me a constant hell,’ Pax wrote in the June 2020 post.
‘You may tell yourself and the world whatever you want,’ he added., ‘but the truth will come to light someday.
Then he sarcastically added: ‘So Happy Father’s Day, you f*****g awful human being.’
A source this week confirmed that the private account does belong to Pax. ‘It’s the account he uses for friends – friends from school mostly. He never says much about his parents, keeps himself to himself, so that was unusual.’
Pax did not say if there was a specific event that had set him off or whether it was a culmination of years of tension.
In his post, Pax called his adoptive father ‘a world class a**hole’ adding: ‘You time and time and again prove yourself to be a terrible and despicable person
‘You have no consideration or empathy toward your four youngest children who tremble in fear when in your presence.
‘You will never understand the damage you have done to my family because you’re incapable of doing so.’
Although Pax was the third child – after brother Maddox and sister Zahara – that Jolie adopted, he is one year older than Zahara.
The four youngest children, who he claimed Pitt made tremble would be Zahara, now 18, and the couple’s three biological children, Shiloh, 17, and 15-year-old twins Knox and Vivienne.
MailOnline has approached Pitt and Jolie’s representatives for comment.