YOU (South Africa)

NO WAR IN SPACE

Angie has made shocking claims about Brad’s behaviour on the fateful plane ride that led to the end of their fairytale

- COMPILED BY NICOLA WHITFIELD

A group of astronauts, including a Russian cosmonaut, arrived at the Internatio­nal Space Station this week, showing the continued cooperatio­n between the United States and Russia on the Internatio­nal Space Station in the face of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

Roscosmos cosmonaut Anna Kikina, together with Nasa astronauts Nicole Mann and Josh Cassada and Japan Aerospace Exploratio­n Agency (Jaxa) astronaut Koichi

Wakata arrived at the ISS on 6 October on the SpaceX Dragon Endurance and docked as they flew 258 miles above the west coast of Africa.

The new arrivals join the Expedition 68 crew of Nasa astronauts Bob Hines, Kjell Lindgren, Frank Rubio, and Jessica Watkins, Samantha Cristofore­tti of the European Space Agency (ESA), and other Roscosmos cosmonauts Sergey Prokopyev and Dmitri Petelin.

HOW quickly things change. Just the other day we were wondering whether Brad Pitt and Emily Ratajkowsk­i were revving up for romance – but look what’s happened now. Forget love. Forget water under the bridge. Forget about Brad and Angelina Jolie making their peace. And if any of us were still holding onto the faintest of hopes that these two might one day get back together again – forget that too.

For six years we knew something big had gone down on that private plane from France to America – big enough to make son Maddox (then 15) want nothing more to do with his dad.

We knew Brad had been drinking and that things had turned ugly. But until now we didn’t know just how ugly

– and the extent of it is nothing short of gobsmackin­g.

Explosive court papers filed by Angelina (47) lay out the events of the day that led to one of the most shocking breakups in Hollywood history.

According to Angie, a drunk Brad choked one of the children, hit another in the face and attacked his wife. He poured beer over her and later poured booze over the children as they cried.

Details of the mid- air eruption weren’t expected to come out: Brad (58) and Angelina had agreed to keep all court documents private. But a bitter dispute over Chateau Miraval – the picturesqu­e winery in southeaste­rn France where the pair married in 2014 – has led to Angelina playing hardball.

The court documents have lifted the lid on the ruin of a relationsh­ip that once seemed idyllic. And all the work the pair appear to have done since the split – the concession­s for the kids, the baby steps of a fragile reconcilia­tion – has been torn to shreds.

How did it get here? And how did Angie’s devastatin­g account of what happened land up in the public domain?

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 ?? ?? Part of the Jolie-Pitt brood, Shiloh, Zahara, Angelina, Vivienne, Maddox and Knox, at the Eternals premier in London last year.
Part of the Jolie-Pitt brood, Shiloh, Zahara, Angelina, Vivienne, Maddox and Knox, at the Eternals premier in London last year.

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