Brad Pitt’s friends slam ‘frustrating’ and ‘depressing’ claims made by his adopted son Pax who branded Hollywood star a ‘world class a**hole’ and ‘f***ing awful human’ in explosive Instagram post

Brad Pitt appeared to hit back last night after his adopted son branded the Hollywood actor a ‘world class a**hole’ and ‘f***ing awful human’ in an explosive Instagram post. Pax Jolie-Pitt, 19, called his father a ‘terrible and despicable person’ who makes his four youngest children ‘tremble in fear’ in an explosive rant posted to social media for Father’s Day 2024.

Pax posted the broadside at Pitt to the stories section of his private Instagram account when he was 16, alleging that life with the Hollywood star was ‘constant hell’, DailyMail.com revealed on Sunday. Now, as the contents of the three-year-old post have been made public, sources close to Pitt claimed that the 59-year-old finds it ‘depressing to see this dragged up’.

The insider told The Sun: ‘It’s frustrating to see Brad being painted as some kind of “bad person” when it’s far from the truth.’ The source added that Pitt has ‘great respect’ for each one of his children and says it ‘speaks volumes’ that he ‘chooses to keep a dignified silence’ about the situation.

Angelina Jolie adopted Pax from an orphanage in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, in 2007. He was three years old and had been dumped as a newborn by his heroin-addicted biological mother. Pitt, Jolie’s then-husband, formally adopted him the following year.

When Pitt and Jolie, 48, split in 2016 just two years after they had married in a private ceremony in France, the children stayed with their mother amid reports of an altercation aboard a private jet between eldest son Maddox and his father. Now it is clear that the relationship between Pax and Pitt is also troubled, with the 19-year-old accusing his dad of making his life ‘hell’ in the extraordinary social media rant.