--- title: Justin Theroux: Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie Divorce "Terrible" description: Justin Theroux has spoken out about Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie's split. canonical: https://time.com/4510244/justin-theroux-brad-pitt-angelina-jolie-divorce-comment/ author: TIME article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-09-27T17:59:51.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:37:04.444Z og:title: Justin Theroux Breaks His Silence On Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie's Divorce og:description: He said it was "terrible news" og:url: https://time.com/4510244/justin-theroux-brad-pitt-angelina-jolie-divorce-comment/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt5eea244e4eb406ca/6988a7c9e20a875949a92924/justin-theroux-brad-pitt-angelina-jolie-divorce.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: 2015 Vanity Fair Oscar Party Hosted By Graydon Carter - Arrivals og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Justin Theroux Breaks His Silence On Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie's Divorce twitter:description: He said it was "terrible news" twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt5eea244e4eb406ca/6988a7c9e20a875949a92924/justin-theroux-brad-pitt-angelina-jolie-divorce.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Jennifer Aniston's Husband Justin Theroux Speaks Out About Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie's Divorce by [Dave Quinn / People](https://time.com/author/people/) ## Dave Quinn / People Contributor Sep 27, 2016 5:59 PM UTC  Justin Theroux and Jennifer Aniston arrive at the 2015 Vanity Fair Oscar Party Hosted By Graydon Carter at Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts on February 22, 2015 in Beverly Hills, California. Justin Theroux and Jennifer Aniston arrive at the 2015 Vanity Fair Oscar Party Hosted By Graydon Carter at Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts on February 22, 2015 in Beverly Hills, California.Anthony Harvey/Getty Images by [Dave Quinn / People](https://time.com/author/people/) ## Dave Quinn / People Contributor Sep 27, 2016 5:59 PM UTC [Justin Theroux](http://www.people.com/people/news/category/0,,personsTax:JustinTheroux,00.html) has spoken out about [Brad Pitt](http://www.people.com/people/brad%5Fpitt) and [Angelina Jolie](http://www.people.com/people/angelina%5Fjolie)‘s [split.](http://www.people.com/article/angelina-jolie-pitt-brad-pitt-divorce) “As a child of divorce, all I can say is that’s terrible news for those children and that’s all you can really say,” the 45-year-old _Leftovers_ actor told [_Business Insider_](http://www.businessinsider.com/justin-theroux-brad-pitt-angelina-jolie-split-2016-9) Monday during a press tour for his new film [_The Girl on the Train_](http://www.ew.com/article/2016/08/25/girl-on-the-train-emily-blunt-cover), out Oct. 7. Theroux’s wife, [Jennifer Aniston](http://www.people.com/people/jennifer%5Faniston), was married to Pitt for five years before their divorce in 2005. Pitt, 52, and Jolie, 41 – who married in 2014 after 10 years of dating – have [six children together](http://www.people.com/article/brad-pitt-family-kids-angelina-jolie-pitt): [Maddox](http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20140693,00.html), 15, Pax, 12, [Zahara](http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20148166,00.html), 11, Shiloh, 10, and 8-year-old twins [Knox and Vivienne](http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20216352,00.html). “It’s boring to sort of comment on anything else,” Theroux added. “People are having a bad time. That’s horrible.” He also slammed what he called “nonsense” attempts to drag Aniston into the divorce drama. “There’s an endless appetite for trash, apparently – though everyone would say that they don’t have that appetite,” he explained. “But I think a lot of people do because people buy it. Theroux continued: “But there are bigger things to bitch about. It’s shocking how much bandwidth things can take up when there are far more important things going on in the world.” _This_ [_article_](http://www.people.com/article/justin-theroux-brad-pitt-jennifer-aniston-angelina-jolie-divorce) _originally appeared on_ [_People.com_](http://www.people.com) Justin Theroux: Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie Divorce "Terrible" ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4510244/justin-theroux-brad-pitt-angelina-jolie-divorce-comment/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4510244/justin-theroux-brad-pitt-angelina-jolie-divorce-comment/"},"headline":"Jennifer Aniston's Husband Justin Theroux Speaks Out About Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie's Divorce","datePublished":"2016-09-27T17:59:51.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:37:04.444Z","description":"He said it was \"terrible news\"","url":"https://time.com/4510244/justin-theroux-brad-pitt-angelina-jolie-divorce-comment/","keywords":["Newsfeed","celebrities","Angelina Jolie","Brad Pitt"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt5eea244e4eb406ca/6988a7c9e20a875949a92924/justin-theroux-brad-pitt-angelina-jolie-divorce.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Dave Quinn / People"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt5eea244e4eb406ca/6988a7c9e20a875949a92924/justin-theroux-brad-pitt-angelina-jolie-divorce.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"2015 Vanity Fair Oscar Party Hosted By Graydon Carter - Arrivals","caption":"Justin Theroux and Jennifer Aniston arrive at the 2015 Vanity Fair Oscar Party Hosted By Graydon Carter at Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts on February 22, 2015 in Beverly Hills, California.","creditText":"Anthony Harvey/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/4510244/justin-theroux-brad-pitt-angelina-jolie-divorce-comment/","name":"Jennifer Aniston's Husband Justin Theroux Speaks Out About Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie's Divorce"}}]}] ```