How Brad Pitt Is Coping With the ‘Bickering’ Custody Battle With Ex Angelina Jolie

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How he’s dealing. Brad Pitt is focusing on work as he continues his custody battle with ex-wife Angelina Jolie, an insider exclusively reveals in the new issue of Us Weekly.“Brad has been holed up at his place,” the source says of the Oscar winner, 58. “He occasionally enjoys downtime at his art studio. … He’s busy signing off on and brainstorming projects all the time, [and his production company] Plan B is always working on stuff.”The Bullet Train star and the Maleficent actress, 46, who tied the knot in August 2014 after nine years together, were declared legally single in 2019, but they are still hammering out the details for custody of their six children: Maddox, 20, Pax, 18, Zahara, 17, Shiloh, 16, and twins Knox and Vivienne, 13.“It’s very clear to him that Angie has gone out of her way to delay and stall the process,” the insider tells Us. “All he can do is work with his legal team and file the paperwork whilst responding to her claims.

Month after month goes by with one piece of red tape after another, endless jumping through hoops and bickering between their lawyers with no resolution.”After the couple’s September 2016 split, an altercation on the duo’s private jet led to a child abuse investigation of Pitt.

Two months later, Us confirmed that the Ad Astra actor was cleared by the Los Angeles County Department of Children and Family Services.In his first interview after the split, the Oklahoma native revealed that he’d been going to therapy and also made the decision to get sober.“I’m really, really happy to be done with all of that,” he told GQ in May 2017. “I mean, I stopped everything except boozing when I started my family.