Jennifer Aniston’s Ex Brad Pitt Reunites With Courteney Cox in Photo

When asked astir her absorption to seeing published photos of her then-estranged hubby Brad Pitt getting cozy with his Mr. & Mrs. Smith costar (and eventual partner-turned-ex) Angelina Jolie, Jennifer Aniston said successful a 2005 Vanity Fair interview, "The satellite was shocked, and I was shocked. I'd beryllium a robot if I said I didn't consciousness moments of anger, of hurt, of embarrassment."

She added, "He makes his choices. He tin do—whatever. We're divorced, and you tin spot why."

Though Aniston noted that determination appeared to be "a sensitivity spot that's missing" successful her ex, she told the magazine, "I emotion Brad; I truly emotion him. I volition emotion him for the remainder of my life. He's a fantastic man. I don't regret immoderate of it, and I'm not going to bushed myself up astir it. We spent 7 precise aggravated years together; we taught each different a lot—about healing, and astir fun. We helped each different done a lot, and I truly worth that. It was a beautiful, analyzable relationship."

"When were Brad and I healed? Well, it ne'er was that bad," Aniston told Vogue in 2008. "I mean, look, it's not similar divorcement is thing that you go, 'Oooh, I can't hold to get divorced!' It doesn't consciousness similar a tickle. But I've got to archer you, it's truthful vague astatine this point, it's truthful faraway successful my mind, I can't adjacent retrieve the darkness. I mean, successful the end, we truly had an amicable split. It wasn't mean and hateful and each of this worldly that they tried to make astir Brad can't speech to Jen and Jen can't speech to Brad due to the fact that this idiosyncratic won't let it. It conscionable didn't happen. The matrimony didn't enactment out."

"And beauteous soon aft we separated, we got connected the telephone and we had a long, agelong speech with each different and said a batch of things, and ever since we've been unbelievably lukewarm and respectful of each other," she continued. "Whoever said everything has to beryllium forever, that's mounting your hopes excessively high. It's excessively overmuch pressure. And I deliberation if you enactment that unit connected yourself—because I did! Fairy tale! It has to beryllium the close one!—that's unattainable."

"It became precise wide to maine that I was intent connected trying to find a movie astir an absorbing life, but I wasn't surviving an absorbing beingness myself," Pitt told Parade mag successful 2011. "I deliberation that my matrimony had thing to bash with it, trying to unreal the matrimony was thing that it wasn't."

The actor aboriginal clarified successful a statement, "Jen is an incredibly giving, loving, and hilarious pistillate who remains my friend. It is an important narration I worth greatly. The constituent I was trying to marque is not that Jen was dull, but that I was becoming dull to myself—and that, I americium liable for."

"She's bully people," Pitt said during a 2011 appearance on NBC's Today show.

When asked astir his Parade comments, helium said, "I deliberation it's a shame that I can't accidental thing bully astir Angie without Jen being cause in. You know, she doesn't merit it."

Pitt besides denied that Aniston called him aft his quotes came out, saying, "She's besides a seasoned seasoned and she knows. You know, and she's a invaluable person. We spent 7 years together. Come on."

"I don't find it painful," Aniston said of their divorcement portion appearing on CBS Sunday Morning in 2015. "I deliberation it's a communicative that follows you due to the fact that it's an absorbing headline. It's much of a media-driven topic."

She added astatine the time, "We've exchanged bully wishes and each that benignant of worldly to each other, but not a changeless thing. I mean, bash you speech to your ex-wife?"

"My marriages, they've been precise successful, successful [my] idiosyncratic opinion. And erstwhile they came to an end, it was a prime that was made due to the fact that we chose to beryllium happy, and sometimes happiness didn't beryllium wrong that statement anymore," Aniston, who was joined to Justin Theroux from 2015 to 2017, told Elle in 2018. "Sure, determination were bumps, and not each infinitesimal felt fantastic, obviously, but astatine the extremity of it, this is our 1 beingness and I would not enactment successful a concern retired of fear. Fear of being alone. Fear of not being capable to survive."

She continued, "To enactment successful a matrimony based connected fearfulness feels similar you're doing your 1 beingness a disservice. When the enactment has been enactment successful and it doesn't look that there's an enactment of it working, that's okay. That's not a failure. We person these clichés astir each of this that request to beryllium reworked and retooled, you know? Because it's precise narrow-minded thinking."

Two years aft Aniston's breakup from Theroux and three years aft Pitt's divided from Jolie, a paparazzo asked the histrion if helium and Aniston were getting backmost together.

His response? Pitt chuckled and replied, "Oh my God."

All eyes were connected the 2020 SAG Awards for a Pitt-Aniston reunion erstwhile the exes each earned acting nods. Ahead of the highly anticipated ceremony, Pitt jokingly noted that crossing paths with Jen was astir apt going to beryllium the "second astir important reunion of her year," referencing to the actress' much talked-about Friends special.

"I'll tally into Jen," helium quipped to Entertainment Tonight. "She's a bully friend."

Click present to spot photos of their SAG Awards run-in.

After their 2020 reunions astatine the SAG Awards and a virtual array work of Fast Times astatine Ridgemont High, Aniston dispelled immoderate speculation that determination was awkwardness betwixt her and her ex.

 "It was perfectly fun," she recalled of the encounters during a 2021 quality connected SiriusXM's The Howard Stern Show. "You know, Brad and I are buddies. Like, we're friends and we speak."

Aniston set the grounds consecutive on rumors that followed their divorce, including the "narrative that I was conscionable selfish" and "just cared astir my career," successful a 2022 interrogation with Allure.

"And God forbid a pistillate is palmy and doesn't person a child," she said. "And the crushed my hubby near me, wherefore we broke up and ended our marriage, was due to the fact that I wouldn't springiness him a kid. It was implicit lies. I don't person thing to fell astatine this point."