ANGIE GIVES THE KIDS TO BRAD!
OFF-LOADS BROOD SO SHE CAN CHASE A BIG MOVIE PAYDAY OVERSEAS
WARRING Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie have called a shock truce in their bitter, almost three-year divorce battle — with Angie handing the kids right over to their dad so she can chase a big payday in Europe, sources spilled! Friends of the actress
said she initiated contact with Brad, fearing that the constant bickering was taking a toll — and, as The National ENQUIRER reported, she appeared close to collapse, sources said, while recently filming in New Mexico.
The 44-year-old “Maleficent” star is sending their six children to spend the summer in Los Angeles with Brad, 55, while she goes after more moolah across the pond! “Angelina is really strapped for cash right now and that’s worked to Brad’s advantage,” dished an insider.
“She’s taken this next movie [‘The Eternals’], which will be shooting in the U.K. during the summer. That’s why she’s letting the kids stay with Brad in L.A. while she makes the big bucks in Europe!”
The actress just wrapped the thriller “Those Who Wish Me Dead” in Albuquerque, and is now set to shoot
“The Eternals” — which will require her to move temporarily to the U.K.
This is the first time Angie has been parted from her rainbow brood — Maddox, 18; Pax, 15; Zahara, 14; Shiloh, 13; and 11-year-old twins Vivienne and Knox — since the pair’s bitter split in 2016, and sources claimed it is making her freak!
“She’s having an extremely hard time over it,” spilled an insider. “She always figured the kids would stay with her until they were old enough to leave home. It never crossed her mind that they’d push to be with their dad for more than an occasional overnight visit!”
Sources said the children — recently pictured with her on set in New Mexico — are thrilled to see more of their dad.
“All the kids have missed spending quality time with Brad and they’re all celebrating,” an insider noted. “They’ve made it clear it’s their wish to be with their dad for an extended period. They have all desperately missed him!”
That is why Angie has issued a stern ultimatum, the source said — that the move to their dad’s L.A. mansion is only temporary!
The insider added: “She’s told Brad in no uncertain terms that the moment she’s done filming, those kids are to go back with her — wherever she is in the world at that time!”
The custody war waged by the “Mr. & Mrs. Smith” co-stars started the same day they split, with the FBI and Children and Family Services initiating — and later dropping — a child abuse investigation against Brad. By May 2018, Brad was fighting to keep Angie from dragging the children with her for months at a time while she filmed on location, and in June of that year a judge had to intervene — he laid out a strict visitation schedule that enforced Brad’s right to see his own kids!
Angie, who did not respond to our request for comment, was also barred from blocking her ex from having phone contact with them, and warned that she would lose custody if she kept trying to cut him out of their lives.
In December 2018, the tussling twosome finally agreed to a new custody schedule — but while SHE is frequently pictured with the children, HE has not been photographed with any of them since the 2016 split! A source said Angie has been consulting “spiritual healers,” who told her to rid her life of “poison” — and this helped her realize she needed to soften her stance on Brad. Meanwhile, as the “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood” star, whose rep declined to comment on our story, spends quality time with his brood this summer, sources predict Angie will be lonelier than ever.
“Angie has shut everybody out,” tattled another source. “She’s had dinner with Millie Bobby Brown’s mom a couple of times, but that’s purely because their daughters are friends. “Angie’s the first to say she doesn’t get along with women, and the few female friends she had are long gone because she never makes an effort,” the source added. “Not even her brother is in her life anymore because she drove him away!”