Splash

Soon after Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie arrived in the South of France for
what was meant to be a relaxing mid-July getaway, they got into a huge fight
when Angie blamed Brad for the poor box-office performance of her movie A
Mighty Heart, which he produced. “Brad rarely raises his voice,” says an
insider, “but this time he told her enough’s enough.”

Sadly, this sort of battle has become a common occurrence. But this time
something was different: Two of their kids, Maddox and Pax, had wandered
into the room and were standing, stunned, as their parents screamed at each
other. “Brad turned to the boys and quickly asked them to go into the other
room,” the insider says.

With that, Brad and Angie both seemed to realize they had gone too far,
breaking a vow they had made long ago never to fight in front of the kids.
In fact, their arguing has gotten so bad that Maddox once tearfully asked his
father not to leave them. “The fighting really upsets him,” says an insider
close to the Pitt family. “It often makes him cry — and he ends up begging
his parents to stop fighting.”

Can Maddox keep his parents together? What kind of effect will the fighting
have on him and the other kids? Would Brad and Angie be better off splitting
up?

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