Jennifer Aniston kicked Brad Pitt out of their home over his affair with Angelina Jolie while the movie Mr And Mrs Smith was still being shot, a new book claims.
The film’s co-producer Arnon Milchan reveals that Pitt secretly stayed with him at his Malibu mansion before the world even knew that Hollywood’s one-time Golden Couple were history.
In the book Confidential: The Life Of Secret Agent Turned Hollywood Tycoon Arnon Milchan, just published in America, he says: “At first, Jen didn’t believe he was involved with Angelina.
“She started asking around but no one would tell her anything because they were loyal to Brad, so she asked him point blank. He denied it, then eventually admitted he was in love with Angelina.
“Jen was furious and threw him out.”
At the time, says Milchan, everyone involved in the production, including Pitt and Angelina, was busily denying their on-screen chemistry amounted to anything more than that.
In fact, although Angelina, 36, subsequently admitted falling for 47-year-old Brad on set, he has always maintained nothing intimate took place between them while he was still living with his wife, even adding he was “proud of the way things were handled”.
Milchan insists that Brad was anxious to avoid a scandal and stayed with him for several weeks after being kicked out by Jennifer.
He said: “Brad drove each day to the set, and everywhere else, on a motorcycle and he wore a wraparound helmet with a tinted visor so no one would recognise him. He stayed with me for the duration of filming.”
Milchan also suggests that Pitt may even have become infatuated with Jolie before they met as they made Mr And Mrs Smith.
The book reveals: “Initially, Pitt was cast with Nicole Kidman but there was no chemistry between the two of them and Pitt dropped out. When Pitt heard that Milchan was considering Angelina Jolie, he jumped back on board.”
Authors Meir Doran and Joseph Gelman write: “Pitt and Jolie initially denied their romance but eventually all hell broke loose.”
Just days before Jennifer, 42, kicked Brad out, they had been pictured together on the Caribbean island Anguilla in what appears to have been a last-ditch effort to keep their marriage alive.
Brad’s confession was the last straw. “She was not the doormat people believed she was,” the authors claim. “Aniston struck first by throwing Pitt out.”
The former Friends star, unlucky in love since her divorce from Pitt, now appears to have found happiness with 39-year-old actor, director and screenwriter Justin Theroux.
-With express.co.uk input
