Sad Brad Puffs and Ponders

Brad Pitt took a pensive break from helping Angelina Jolie collect items from her late mother's hotel room, and sat on the balcony floor to have a cigarette on Wednesday.

Angelina's mother, Marcheline Bertrand, passed away on Saturday after a long battle with ovarian cancer. She had been living at L'Ermitage Hotel in Beverly Hills.

The tragic news brought the supercouple back to Los Angeles after their relocation to New Orleans where Brad is shooting his latest film, "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button."



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121. I don't smoke but I.ve read that cigarettes are the hardest addiction to break . I've read that Brad has tried unsuccessfully to quit this habit numerous times . I'm sure he's thinking about the horrible consequences of this habit . I applaud him for going outside to smoke and not expose others to the effects of the smoke . I also believe that Angie kept very close communuicaton with her Mom and her Mom's doctors . I'm sure that she was always a plane ride or car ride from getting to her . No one wants our loved ones to hover over us waiting for us to die . That would be too morbid. Her Mom was probably very proud of AJ Un work and encouraged her to continue doing it with the hope and understanding that she would get better and if not AJ would be at her side if she called or was needed . We cannot pass judgement on what happened over the last few months of Marcheline's life . We cannot say what we would have done since the circumstances for eachof us is unique . To say something in judgement either makes you look very immature or backwards .

Posted at 1:17AM on Feb 4th 2007 by carolynlee

122. Saint Floppy Jowls Pitt. ROTFLMAO at the poster who who wrote that. Perfect description.

Posted at 12:26PM on Feb 4th 2007 by SickOfBrangelina

123. i am so sorry for the loss of your mother..... i just lost my own days ago to oddly enough generalized cancer........

this disease plays no favourites...... so brad for the sake of all your children & your lover please DON'T SMOKE GO SEE A THERAPIST HYPNOTIST

BEING HEALTHY IS THE BEST GIFT WELL THAT & TIME THATS HOW KIDS SPELL LOVE ........THIS IS WHAT THEY WILL RECALL...

MY PRAYERS GO TO YOU & YOUR MOM

Posted at 3:07PM on Feb 5th 2007 by LISA

124. I feel that Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie are entitiled to grievieing like any other human being in this world. Hollywood , wealth, movies and seemingly having it all to the average worker who is a movie goer and admires these human beings who have problems just like any other human has. The loss of Anglina Jolie her mother is a great loss . My heart and sympathy go out this family. These people deserve the right to grieve and to be private and human just like any other family that has lost a loved one. The mother and daughter relationship is special . Since Angelina jolie's mother raised both children beautifully without the help of the absent creep Jon Voight, I understand the pain and sadness. Money, fame, etc. is not the answer and they know it. Life is a precious gift and we will all die let's let the actors and actresses give us their gift and talent and entertain us;but why don't we also give them their God given right to be human and private and deal with their personal lives which is nobody's damn business.

Posted at 2:37PM on Feb 6th 2007 by Mary

125. I don't mean to sound heartless here but I have to say that Angie has rubbed her happiness in the faces of others for too long and this is just one of many examples of how some people just have to suffer for their actions. Jennifer lost her best friend (isn't this how Angie referred to Jennifer and Brad) and now it's Angie's turn to lose her best friend too. Hope it hurts really bad Angie! Because she's a homewrecking whore and she deserves all the misery she gets in life.

Posted at 12:40PM on Feb 8th 2007 by Tina

126. Sorry Tina, but you can't blame Angelina for Brad and Jennifer's problems. Also, that's not a nice way to talk about someone's mother and not very ladylike to speak in that manner..

Posted at 11:57PM on Feb 8th 2007 by Jamie

127. My mother in law died of cancer two years ago. At first, my husband and I stayed by her side. She got mad at us. She said you have two beautiful children and they do not need to watch me die. I want you all to go and live life as if everything is normal. I don't want my grandchildren to remember me this way. She begged us to not stop our lives because of her cancer. So we respected her wishes. We were there the night she died, but we did not hover over her "waiting" for her to go. By the way, my husband smokes. When his mom was in the hospital he would go outside to smoke because he was under so much stress and had so many emotions running rampant. That was how he dealt with it. He did not smoke to disrespect her or anyone else who died of cancer. Brad Pitt is not super human. He is an ordinary man who happens to be in the limelight. Let him deal with his stress the way he knows how. Let them be, let them mourn and let them move on and be the family they want to be. Stop judging and if you don't like what you see, click off the page.

Posted at 3:18PM on Feb 12th 2007 by Dionna

128. NUMBER 79, YOU ARE IN A CHAT SECTION, AND SOMEONE VOICE THERE OPINION, YOUR RESPONSE, GO TELL JENNIFER ANISTON TO STOP SMOKING. CAN YOU EXPLAIN TO ME WHY? PEOPLE THAT ARE FANS OF BRAD AND ANGELINA, EVERYTIME THE TOPIC GETS ABOVE 3RD GRADE, THEY INSULT JENNIFER. I DON'T BELIEVE THEY KNOW HER TO TELL HER THIS. FURTHERMORE, WHAT DOES SHE HAVE TO DO WITH THE TOPIC. I TRULY BELIEVE, THAT PEOPLE ARE SO USE TO SEEING THESE PEOPLE ON THE BIG SCREEN OR THE LITTLE SCREEN, THEY ARE STILL HANDLING IT AS IF IT IS A MOVIE. THIS IS REAL LIFE, LOTS OF PEOPLE IN THIS VERY SAD STORY HAS BEEN HURT, SOME WORSE THAN OTHERS. JENNIFER HAS HAD HER PUBLIC LYNCHING, SHE HAS BEEN RIDICULED TO A LEVEL THAT I DON'T KNOW HOW SHE SURVIVED. BEFORE YOU BRAND ME A TEAM JENNIFER, I DON'T KNOW HER. NEVER MET HER, AND NOT DEFENDING HER. IF HIS MARRIAGE IS IN THE PAST, I CHALLENGE ANY OF YOU THAT PROTECT THE HONOR OF BRAD AND ANGELINA, TO HAVE A DISCUSSION AND NOT MAKE IT ABOUT JENNIFER. WHAT, ACTUALLY DID JENNIFER DO TO YOU. IT HAD TO BE HORRIBLE, YOU REALLY SEEM TO LET THIS WOMAN LIVE RENT FREE UP IN YOUR MIND. NOW, I HOPE YOU RESPOND IN A CIVIL WAY, I TRULY JUST WANT TO KNOW WHY THE HOSTILITY IS STILL AGAINST HER. BUT, IT HAS TO BE ON A LEVEL AT LEAST WITH ONE YEAR OF COLLEGE. NO THIRD GRADE, BECAUSE ANGELINA IS PRETTY. ALSO, BECAUSE BRAD IS ATTRACTIVE, SO WHAT, TED BUNDY, WAS ATTRACTIVE ALSO, SHOULD HIS CRIMES BE OVERLOOKED, BECAUSE OF THE WAY HE LOOKED. UP TO THE MOMENT HE WAS PUT TO DEATH, HE WAS STILL GETTING MARRIAGE PROPOSALS. I GUESS THAT IS THAT WARPED IDOLIZING PEOPLE HAVE FOR ANGELINA.

Posted at 9:00PM on Feb 13th 2007 by SHANNA

129. Angie's mom dies of cancer and Brad deals with it by puffing on a cancer stick? I don't get it. And I don't get why a 40 something year old man with millions of dollars can't mobilize the resources--inner and outer--to kick this ugly habit. I can understand some 20 year old who started in his teens in order to feel "cool" and hasn't come around to cleaning the thing up...but a grown man with three young children and a much-touted social conscience? Make the world a better place, Mr. Unofficial Role Model..kick the cancer sticks!

Posted at 2:12PM on Feb 18th 2007 by Babs

130. I lost my mother to Ovarian Cancer on January 1st. She lived with her cancer for 9 years and we all (eight of us with spouses and children) came to her side 3 times over the years when she wasn't expected to make it. Cancer is not predictable and is generally a slow death. For my mom, her last downhill slide took five months. She could have lost her battle at any time during that slide. Neither of our lives stopped just because she was sick. She even went to a wedding 600 miles away at the end of October when she could have easily just been miserable on the couch. She was well taken care of and I spent quality time with her when I could. I last spent time with her at Thanksgiving and, in my way, said goodbye, knowing the end could happen at anytime. I chose to spend Christmas with my children who were not free to travel the 550 miles to her home. Only one of my siblings were there when she passed. Several had spent the holidays but had gone home.

So please, do not be so quick to judge. All families are different in the handling death and dying. My mother wanted us to continue on with life as usual. She wasn't into "death watches". As a matter of fact, she continued to work (she ran her own business) during almost all of her illness.

Posted at 1:44AM on Feb 20th 2007 by Teri Miller

131. Uh, I thought he quit. Like 2 years ago. Not cool. Hope it's a one-time grief-induced cancer stick.

Still love him and would still totally hit it.

Posted at 8:17PM on Mar 12th 2007 by daria

132. How do you people know all this private information. How close she was with her mother, and that her mother had no money and AJ didn't pay for private doctors, etc. Why do you al worry about what the hell these people are doing? Who cares, work on your own lives....and get off the smoking of the cigarettes, stop beating a dead horse....yourallcrazy

Posted at 4:52PM on Mar 20th 2007 by yourallcrazy

133. I feel sorry for Brad. Angelina denied her own biological daughter and that is the worst thing i've ever heard is to deny your own flesh and blood.True, she does a lot of charity work but that does not make you a good mother. from what i've read of her, i wouldn't even let her babysit my child.

Posted at 12:46PM on Apr 15th 2007 by mary

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