It’s been two months since Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie hired a private judge to handle with their divorce and custody matters. But it appears that they’re closer to reaching a resolution as the former couple has been speaking directly again for the first time in a while. No matter what, their kids will always come first.
“Things have calmed settled between Brad and Angelina. It’s not as tense as it had been,” a source reveals. “They are focused on the kids and working to do what’s best for them.”
Pitt has been spending more time with their six children, Maddox, 15, Pax, 13, Zahara, 12, Shiloh, 10, and twins Knox and Vivienne, 8, while they’re in Los Angeles, and is feeling happy and relieved that the custody battle has simmered, a source confirms.
“It’s still in the process of being resolved,” the insider says , adding that the two are making progress privately and properly.
Pitt and Jolie also appear to be making progress in public, as Jolie commended Pitt’s parenting skills during her appearance on Good Morning America last month, and revealed that despite their breakup, the two will “always be a family.”
“Brad knows Angelina is a really good mom,” source said.
The 53-year-old actor who will appear in Netflix’s War Machine, has been working zealously on a sculpture at Thomas Houseago’s studio, while the 41-year-old actress has been concentrating on humanitarian efforts on behalf of United Nations.
An insider said that Pitt and Jolie’s communication level is limited but positive. “They recently started talking again and it’s a significant step. Up until now everything was through lawyers and assistants,” the insider reveals. “They did not speak at all after the plane incident and everything that went down in the press.” The decision to communication directly came “at the recommendation of the children’s therapists and their own,” the insider confirms, and the exes “are focused on the kids and taking small steps to mend what has happened. Right now they are only speaking about the kids and their schedules, but it’s a positive step.”
“Brad hopes that they can be successful at co-parenting and get to a place where they can be friendly,” the insider says. “They both have agreed to put the kids first.”
Jolie told BBC last month. “We are a family and we’ll always be a family,” she said. “And we will get through this time and hopefully be a stronger family for it.”
“My focus is my children—our children—and my focus is finding this way through,” the actress added. “And as I said, we are and forever will be a family. And so that is how I’m coping. I’m coping with finding a way through to make sure this somehow makes us stronger and closer.”
