AT LAST! Brad gets his kids BACK! The doting dad can’t wait for his big reunion
As Brad Pitt emerged from his lawyer’s office in LA on Monday, August 27, the triumphant grin on his face said it all. Sources tell Woman’s Day the actor is now all but certain he’ll win the fight for joint custody of his six children in an increasingly ugly legal spat with his estranged wife Angelina Jolie.
“Brad looked like the weight of the world was off his shoulders,” a source who witnessed the actor leave via an underground parking lot in West LA tells Woman’s Day.
“It was definitely a positive meeting. All he’s ever wanted is to get those kids back and now, after more than two years of mud-slinging from Ange, it looks like it might finally happen.”
NO MORE NASTY TACTICS
Brad’s new sunny outlook came the same day Ange dramatically split from her high-powered attorney, lawyer to the stars Laura Wasser, after months of rumours that even LA’S most notorious divorce “pit bull” could no longer stand d her client’s “nasty tactics”, s”, including accusing cusing Brad of withholding holding child support. rt. “Angelina has been more ore than happy y to drag Brad’s ’ good d name through the mud, and it’s just ust not Laura’s way – she prefers ers to advocate for joint custody, dy, except in extreme cases,” says our source.
Laura parting ways with the 43-year-old Tomb b Raider star sent shockwaves es through Hollywood last week, with one insider telling us, “She represented d Ange through her divorce from Billy Bob [Thornton]. . She stuck by Johnny Depp p in his ugly split from Amber er Heard. Laura is not a woman man who backs down easily, yet et she wants no part in this.”
‘Angelina has dragged Brad’s good name through the mud’
Those Ththoseth close to Brad expect a reunion reun “any day now” between the Fight Club actor, 54, and the youngest you of his children, Pax, 14, Zahara, Zah 13, Shiloh, 12, and 10-year-old 10-y twins Vivienne and Knox. Kno His eldest, Maddox, is 17 and likely able to choose whether he wants w to live part-time with his dad or remain with Ange.
DREAM DR COME TRUE
“To have the kids back, especially Shi, who he’s very close with, is a dr dream come true for Brad,” our sou source reveals. “The past two yea years without them has been hell and he’s very excited for all the catc catching up they’ll be able to do onc once he’s allowed to see them wit without a counsellor hovering ov over their visits.” Meanwhile, friends say Ange is becoming increasingly e erratic as she “sees the writing o on the wall” that she’ll have to s share custody with her ex. “She’s doing everything she c can to take back control. She’s p parading the kids in paparazzi h hotspots around LA to show t they’re a happy family,” says a separate source. “And, weirdly, she’s finding c comfort in ancient spiritual v voodoo rituals. She does a lot o of chanting and meditation. “She thinks it’s her way of p protecting herself against ha haters,” the source says.