Brad Pitt knows he made "mistakes" and hopes to one day move forward with his kids

Brad Pitt is just trying to move on following his headline-making divorce from Angelina Jolie. The F1 star has found love again with Ines De Ramon, but he's still making headlines with his ex-wife, with whom he shares six children. Amid the reported rift with his children, he's grown in many ways, including finding sobriety. 

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Pitt and Jolie's divorce was finally settled after 8 years in December 2024. A source recently told US Weekly that while the divorce "had been controlling his life for so many years," the actor "loved her and he knows he made mistakes.”

The divorce wasn’t just long - it was ugly, with shocking allegations. “It was such a divisive, toxic situation,” the insider said. It even drove a wedge between Pitt and his kids, with Shiloh Jolie legally dropping his last name. “To have that behind him is a relief. But on the other hand, it’s been hard for him because he doesn’t have a great relationship with his kid," the insider said. 

Still, Brad isn't pointing fingers. “He doesn’t blame [Jolie] for everything,” the source added. Instead, he’s trying to accept what he can’t change and focus on what he can. The source noted that he hopes to one day move forward with his children.

A turning point has been his sobriety journey, “Ever since he stopped drinking, everything has changed,” the insider noted. Pitt recently opened up about his journey with  Alcoholics Anonymous with Dax Shepard on Armchair Expert, saying when he joined, he was at such a low point he was "pretty much" on his knees, and "really open." “I was trying anything and everyone. Anything anyone threw at me. It was a difficult time. I needed to reboot. I needed to wake the f--- up in some areas. And it just meant a lot to me," he explained. 

And while Angelina is reportedly “still not in a place where she is going to forgive him or ever will,” Pitt isn’t chasing redemption anymore. When GQ asked if the divorce being finalized felt like a relief, he just shrugged: “No, I don’t think it was that major of a thing. Just something coming to fruition. Legally.”