--- title: George Clooney Found Out About the Brangelina Split on CNN description: George Clooney is just like us canonical: https://time.com/4502734/george-clooney-reacts-brad-pitt-angelina-jolie/ author: Melissa Locker article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-09-21T15:16:03.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:36:48.282Z og:title: George Clooney Found Out About the Brangelina Split on TV og:description: George Clooney is just like us og:url: https://time.com/4502734/george-clooney-reacts-brad-pitt-angelina-jolie/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt271823931bdecb76/69888f748e060136a3465783/george-clooney-hillary-clinton.jpg?branch=production&width=2400&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: The Men Who Stare At Goats Red Carpet - 66th Venice Film Festival og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: George Clooney Found Out About the Brangelina Split on TV twitter:description: George Clooney is just like us twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt271823931bdecb76/69888f748e060136a3465783/george-clooney-hillary-clinton.jpg?branch=production&width=2400&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Watch George Clooney Find Out About Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie's Split During an Interview by [Melissa Locker](https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/) ## Melissa Locker Sep 21, 2016 3:16 PM UTC  Actor George Clooney attends "The Men Who Stare At Goats" premiere at the Sala Grande during the 66th Venice Film Festival on Sept. 8, 2009 in Venice, Italy. Actor George Clooney attends "The Men Who Stare At Goats" premiere at the Sala Grande during the 66th Venice Film Festival on Sept. 8, 2009 in Venice, Italy.Gareth Cattermole-Getty Images by [Melissa Locker](https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/) ## Melissa Locker Sep 21, 2016 3:16 PM UTC [George Clooney](http://time.com/3452588/george-clooney-amal-alamuddin-marriage-divorce/?iid=sr-link2) and Brad Pitt are longtime friends who met on the set of _Ocean’s 11_ in 2001 and have been merrily playing [pranks](http://www.vulture.com/2014/02/timeline-george-clooneys-history-of-pranking.html) on each other ever since. Despite their long history together, Clooney was just as shocked as the rest of us to hear the news that [Angelina Jolie](http://time.com/4501513/brad-pitt-angelina-jolie-style/?xid=homepage) had [filed for divorce ](http://time.com/4501189/angelina-jolie-brad-pitt-divorce/?xid=homepage)from Pitt, her partner of almost twelve years. A CNN reporter caught Clooney on the way out a [roundtable meeting](http://time.com/4487814/south-sudan-instagram/?iid=sr-link7) with President Obama on the state of the refugee crisis. The reporter apologized for asking Clooney about the divorce in light of the U.N. meeting’s [urgent topic](http://time.com/4501924/barack-obama-refugee-increase-united-nations/), when he questioned Clooney about his feelings about [Pitt and Jolie](http://time.com/4502360/adele-dedicates-new-york-concert-to-brad-pitt-and-angelina-jolie/?xid=homepage). Clooney, however, had not heard the news. “What happened?” he asked. The reporter clarified that the couple was getting divorced and Clooney said, “I didn’t know that. Wow.” “I feel very sorry then,” he said, clearly grappling with the news. “That’s a sad story and unfortunate for a family. It’s an unfortunate story about a family. I feel very sorry to hear that.” He then added: “This is the first I’ve heard of it.” ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4502734/george-clooney-reacts-brad-pitt-angelina-jolie/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4502734/george-clooney-reacts-brad-pitt-angelina-jolie/"},"headline":"Watch George Clooney Find Out About Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie's Split During an Interview","datePublished":"2016-09-21T15:16:03.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:36:48.282Z","description":"George Clooney is just like us","url":"https://time.com/4502734/george-clooney-reacts-brad-pitt-angelina-jolie/","keywords":["Newsfeed","celebrities","George Clooney","Angelina Jolie","Brad Pitt"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt271823931bdecb76/69888f748e060136a3465783/george-clooney-hillary-clinton.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Melissa Locker","jobTitle":"","url":"https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt271823931bdecb76/69888f748e060136a3465783/george-clooney-hillary-clinton.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"The Men Who Stare At Goats Red Carpet - 66th Venice Film Festival","caption":"Actor George Clooney attends \"The Men Who Stare At Goats\" premiere at the Sala Grande during the 66th Venice Film Festival on Sept. 8, 2009 in Venice, Italy.","creditText":"Gareth Cattermole-Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4502734/george-clooney-reacts-brad-pitt-angelina-jolie/","name":"Watch George Clooney Find Out About Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie's Split During an Interview"}}]}] ```