Brad Pitt, who has always been mum about Jennifer Aniston and Angelina Jolie, finally speaks up on his interview with W Magazine.

On the January issue of W Magazine, Brad Pitt confessed having a close relationship with ex-wife Jen Aniston, regardless of their split. The Benjamin Button star explained, “We still check in with each other. She was a big part of my life, and me hers. I don’t see how there cannot be [that]. That’s life, man. That’s life.”

Pitt also brushes off accusations that Pitt and Angelina Jolie fell in love on the set of “Mr. & Mrs. Smith” while he was still married to Aniston. Although people assume that both Jolie and Pitt admitted to having an affair, Brad explained, “What people don’t understand is that we filmed [Mr. & Mrs. Smith] for a year. We were still filming after Jen and I split up. Even then it doesn’t mean that there was some kind of dastardly affair. There wasn’t. I’m very proud of the way that it was handled. It was respectful. [The film] will mean something to our kids. It will, that’s all.”

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