Every time we think the Brangelina divorce proceedings are almost done and dusted, a spanner is thrown into the works.
Earlier this week, Angelina Jolie’s team released a statement confirming the pair had reached a custody agreement in regards to their six children.
"Angelina Jolie Pitt will continue to have sole custody of her six children with Brad Pitt in a joint agreement reached by the actors," the statement read.
Which would have been fine, if Pitt's camp hadn't also told to People magazine that the couple were yet to reach an agreement.
Now, things are looking set to get even more dramatic, with reports suggesting that Pitt has 'secret recordings' of his soon-to-be-ex wife.
While it's not clear what exactly the alleged recordings contain, The Sun reports they capture information that could "dent Angelina’s bid to win primary custody".
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Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie over the years.
"We believe audio tapes exist of Angelina that would be absolutely dynamite against her if they were to be made public," a source close to the ex-couple has revealed .
“Nobody wants to play dirty like that - it’s not good for the children - but Angelina and her team seem absolutely hell-bent on trying to discredit Brad in order to stop him getting joint custody."
The rumour comes just days after Pitt made his first public appearance - at the red carpet premiere of his latest film - since his divorce news made headlines.
Of the public's concern over the split, Pitt said that is was "nice to have the support" and that "everyone's been very kind."
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The 'sources' behind these claims are murky at the absolute best. This is gutter reporting, worthy only of The Sun and People magazine.
I was never into the whole Team Aniston, Team Jolie thing, I always enjoyed movies with both women in them, but I must say her calling the equivalent of DOCs on him and him being subsequently cleared, seems to me particularly nasty and a strategic way of her getting custody. Breakups are painful and I know myself sometimes you feel like really having a go at the other party but there are some things you just don't accuse people of (unless they are true) abuse is one of those things. The fact that she has used such low tactics I can understand why he feels he must defend himself by any means possible.
When the two of them got together, I thought well that's not very nice for Aniston, but hey this is Hollywood people have affairs and who am I to know what went on in all their relationships, and I also had great sympathy for Jolie with her cancer issues, but what she has done to Pitt now has made me think very lowly of her. Look maybe there is a chance that he really is an abusive monster and DOCs (or whatever they call it there) just couldn't find the evidence of it, but it just seems quite calculated, particularly the timing of it and that he has been since cleared.
It's very sad that people can have relationships and create children together and yet end things so nastily. No matter how upset I am at the end of a relationship I really try to end things with some dignity (unless of course the other party was truly terrible) because it seems to me that it sours the memory of the whole relationship when a person ends it so cruelly.