Stephen Colbert launched back into his verbal assault of President Trump … the day after he caught some heat for calling Trump “Vladimir Putin’s c**k holster.” Colbert didn’t address any of the backlash against, or support for, his…
Wednesday, May 3, 2017
Brad Pitt Breaks Silence on Angelina Jolie, Admits to Drinking Problem
Brad Pitt has finally spoken out on his divorce from Angelina Jolie.
Following various statements here and there from his lawyers or representatives, the actor himself sat down with GQ Style for its latest issue and delved deeply into a number of personal issues.
For starters, Pitt touched on the accusation that he assaulted 15-year old son Maddox on board a private plane in September.
Just four days after this alleged incident, Jolie filed for divorce.
Pitt was then investigated by Child Services and even the FBI, although no evidence ever turned up that proved this allegation true. No charges were ever pressed.
“I was really on my back and chained to a system when Child Services was called,” Pitt tells GQ Style, adding him and his estranged wife:
“After that, we’ve been able to work together to sort this out. We’re both doing our best. I heard one lawyer say, ‘No one wins in court — it’s just a matter of who gets hurt worse.’
“And it seems to be true, you spend a year just focused on building a case to prove your point and why you’re right and why they’re wrong, and it’s just an investment in vitriolic hatred.”
Throughout the interview, Pitt only mentions Jolie by name on one occasion.
At one point, he suggests to the interviewer that he ought to check out her new movie, First They Killed My Father, saying simply:
“You should see Angie’s film.”
Aside from that reference, Pitt very clearly brings Jolie up often… because how can he not in these circumstances? But not in direct fashion.
Currently residing in what he describes as his “childhood home” in Hollywood Hills with his bulldog, Pitt gets to spend time with his six kids on occasion.
He says he’s intent on keeping the breakup amicable.
“Fortunately my partner in this agrees,” he explains, again mentioning Jolie, but not by name.
“It’s just very, very jarring for the kids, to suddenly have their family ripped apart. If anyone can make sense of it, we have to with great care and delicacy, building everything around that…
“Our focus is that everyone come out stronger and better people – there is no other outcome.
“I see it happen to friends – I see where the one spouse literally can’t tell their own part in it, and it’s still competing with the other in some way and wants to destroy them, and needs vindication by destruction, and just wasting years on that hatred.
“I don’t want to live that way.”
Who would? It sounds terrible.
But some critics out there believe Jolie is responsible for many of the rumors that have spread throughout the Internet, such as Pitt having a drinking problem.
Here, though, Pitt openly acknowledges as much.
“I was boozing too much,” he says. “It’s just become a problem. And I’m really happy it’s been half a year now, which is bittersweet, but I’ve got my feelings in my fingertips again.”
At his best/worst, however?
“I could drink a Russian under the table with his own vodka. I was a professional. I was good.”
Back on September 19, Jolie requested sole physical custody of the ex-couple’s six children: Maddox, 15, Pax, 13, Zahara, 12, Shiloh, 10, and twins Vivienne and Knox, 8.
In January, though, Pitt and Jolie released a joint statement stating that they reached an agreement to handle their divorce in a private forum.
The split has not yet been legally finalized.
“For me this period has really been about looking at my weaknesses and failures and owning my side of the street,” Pitt admits, seemingly going off on a tangent, while also being honest:
“I’m an asshole when it comes to this need for justice. I don’t know where it comes from, this hollow quest for justice for some perceived slight. I can drill on that for days and years. It’s done me no good whatsoever.
“It’s such a silly idea, the idea that the world is fair. And this is coming from a guy who hit the lottery, I’m well aware of that.
“I hit the lottery, and I still would waste my time on those hollow pursuits.”
Pitt says he’s trying to remain out of the spotlight.
But he’s clearly aware that the gossip mill has been churning for months.
And he fears what this will mean for his kids, both now and down the line.
“I worry about it more for my kids, being subjected to it, and their friends getting ideas from it,” he says of the negative attention and chatter.
“And of course it’s not done with any kind of delicacy or insight – it’s done to sell. And so you know the most sensational sells, and that’s what they’ll be subjected to, and that pains me.”
Pitt was photographed for this issue by Ryan McGinley at notable locations such as the Everglades, the White Sands and Carlsbad Caverns.
There will be multiple covers available.
But we assume most readers will focus on what Pitt has to say for a change, not on how he looks.
“Kids are so delicate. They absorb everything. They need to have their hand held and things explained. They need to be listened to. When I get in that busy work mode, I’m not hearing.
“I want to be better at that.
“I grew up with a Father-knows-best/war mentality – the father is all-powerful, super strong – instead of really knowing the man and his own self-doubt and struggles.
“And it’s hit me smack in the face with our divorce: I gotta be more. I gotta be more for them. I have to show them. And I haven’t been great at it.”
Marjorie Jackson: Slamming Josh Duggar in New Tell-All?!
When we first learned that Josiah Duggar was courting Marjorie Jackson, it was widely assumed that the arrangement would end in marriage.
After all, when the Duggars reach the point where they’re announcing their romantic relationships to the world, it usually means the potential spouse has been thoroughly vetted, and a wedding is already in the works.
But after weeks of hype and engagement ring shopping, something strange happened.
First, Marjorie disappeared from Josiah’s Instagram page.
Shortly thereafter, it was announced that Josiah and Marjorie had ended their courtship, an almost unheard-of move in the Duggar’s world.
A few months later, word got out that Marjorie was writing a book, and the news was met with a decidedly mixed response.
The Duggar faithful feared a damaging tell-all, while critics of the family eagerly awaited the very same.
On Monday, Marjorie’s book – Devoted: A Girl’s 31-Day Guide to Good Living With a Great God – finally hit stores (and Kindles) and it seems she’s managed to pull off the difficult task of satisfying those on both sides of the Duggar debate.
Not surprisingly, she doesn’t throw any direct shade at the Counting On clan.
(For better or worse, the Duggar’s remain her number one claim to fame.)
However, there are some excerpts that are being interpreted as Jackson’s subtle commentary on the Josh Duggar sex scandals, which many believe are the primary reason she decided to end her relationship to Josiah.
Not surprisingly, Marjorie spends much of the book emphasizing the importance of sexual chastity:
“Where promiscuousness once would have been the hush-hush elephant in the room, it now seems that purity sticks out loudly more than ever in a world where anything and everything goes,” she writes at one point.
She later adds:
“How do we handle relationships? What kinds of movies, music, websites, jokes, and conversations do we allow and engage in? Is our dress suggestive and provocative, or modest and proper for a girl professing to have Jesus in her heart?”
Without the context of a young woman who recently cut ties with a family who’s famous for covering up a series of sex scandals, perhaps those quotes wouldn’t seem so damning.
Marjorie goes on to warn her young readers about the pitfalls of entering a courtship blindly, without foreknowledge of the family one might be entering into:
“Be sure to screen each potential suitor through your dad or anything trusted Christian spiritual leader first!” she writes in the book.
“That will help weed out the creepers and determine character.”
And just what makes one a creeper?
Well, in Marjorie’s book (literally) creepers are those who perv out on the Internet, not unlike Josh Duggar when he used the Ashley Madison website to cheat on his wife:
“Those words we text, e-mail, write and post on social media…God sees it all,” Marjorie warns, adding:
“Jesus never excluded any of our methods of communication, on or out of cyberspace.”
Watch for Josh’s confessional memoir about the pain of being roasted to a crisp by a teenage girl, which will probably be released this fall.
We kid, but seriously – that’s some nice passive-aggressive shade on Marjorie’s part.
#FireColbert Campaign Breaks Out Over Host"s Trump Joke
Stephen Colbert has Donald Trump to thank for his surge in recent ratings.
Ever since the 45th President of the United States was sworn in, Colbert has held little back in slamming the ill-informed and self-obsessed POTUS, flying past Jimmy Fallon as the most-watch late-night talk show as a result.
Viewers have clearly been tuning in to see what Colbert will say about Trump next.
On Monday night, however, many were stunned by how Colbert responded to Trump slamming John Dickerson of CBS News.
“Sir, you attract more skinheads than free Rogaine,” Colbert said toward the end of the insult-laden rant, adding:
“You have more people marching against you than cancer. You talk like a sign language gorilla that got hit in the head.
"In fact, the only thing your mouth is good for is being Vladimir Putin’s cock holster.”
WHOA THERE!
It was this final comment that some think crossed a line. As you"re about to see below, it has led to a #FireColbert campaign on Twitter, with critics calling for the comedian"s job…
1. Did He Cross a Line?
Some are comparing Colbert’s situation to that of Bill O’Reilly, who was recently dismissed by Fox News. Of course, O’Reilly paid five women to remain silent about their allegations of sexual misconduct; he didn’t just make a joke. Moreover, he was fired because advertisers pulled out of his show, not because the network was offended over his scandal or even because viewers were turned off by it.
2. We Know What This Person Thinks
Yes, it crossed the line. Bigly.
3. See Ya, CBS!
Will ratings for the network as a whole suffer?
4. But How Do You Really Feel?
Come on. Don’t hold back.
5. A Rush to Judgment
Rush Limbaugh, this person is referring to.
6. Kimmel Also Slammed Trump in The Monologue Referenced Here
But point taken.
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