Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston broke up months before he began seeing Angelina Jolie. Pitt and Jolie were rumored to have fallen in love while filming Mr. & Mrs. Smith in 2014. Pitt was still married to Aniston at the time.

Aniston was honest about her life following her divorce from Pitt in a 2006 interview with Vanity Fair. She was asked about the rumors that the Maleficent actress and the Once Upon a Time in Hollywood star were already expecting their first child together during the interview.

When Aniston heard the question, she looked like she had been stabbed in the heart, according to Leslie Bennett. Her eyes welled up and she was unable to speak. Tears began to run down her cheeks after a few minutes.

Pitt’s first ex-wife shook her head and bit her lip. Bennetts knew that Aniston couldn’t talk about the issue since it was too painful for her.

Jennifer Aniston Reacts to Brad Pitt ‘crying’ while watching her acceptance speech: ‘Aw!’

20 JANUARY 2020

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People projected their ideas about former couple Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston rekindling their relationship following their brief on-camera reunion at the Screen Stars Guild awards on Monday, years after they broke up.

Jennifer was interviewed by ET Canada, and the interviewer said, “You had Brad Pitt watching that monitor,” to which Jennifer replied, “Aw!” before the interviewer added, “Brad Pitt was crying,” to which Jennifer exclaimed, “No!”

“I’m serious!” said the interviewer. Jennifer then made a “pssh” noise and appeared to be really flattered.

The actress, who was touched by the gesture, responded by saying, “It means everything. We all grew up together. This whole room. Their performances move me and excite me! We’re part of a community together…it’s nice to have a night where you dress up and celebrate together.”

She described his reaction as “sweet” in a similar interview with ExtraTV.

She went on to discuss her feelings on earning the prize for her show 20 years later. “We’ve all grown up together, we really have, and it just feels like a really fun night to celebrate and cheer each other on and keep working,” she explained.

She added, “You know, you don’t really have that much of a life, so it’s nice to come out and put a pretty dress on and sort of celebrate your friends and their work, and inspire each other to keep going—and like [Brad] said, it’s back to work tomorrow.”

Videos showing Pitt staring at Aniston on stage, rapt in attention, have gone viral. When Aniston was announced as the winner of the best female performer in a drama show award for her work in The Morning Show, Pitt had just won the best supporting actor award for his role in Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.

Jen also said that she would welcome Brad’s appearance on The Morning Show.