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 Brad Pitt opens up about family and finding time for what's important in life in this Sunday’s PARADE with Dotson Rader. The 47-year-old star shares his thoughts on Angie, the kids, his private pain, and what he lives for now.Be sure to check out this weekend's issue of PARADE magazine in your local newspaper for the full interview with Brad Pitt.“I put much more emphasis on being a satisfied man. I’m satisfied with making true choices and finding the woman I love, Angie, and building a family that I love so much. A family is a risky venture, because the greater the love, the greater the loss. … That’s the trade-off. But I’ll take it all.”“I spent the ‘90s trying to hide out, trying to duck the full celebrity cacophony. I started to get sick of myself sitting on a couch, holding a joint, hiding out. It started feeling pathetic. It became very clear to me that I was intent on trying to find a movie about an interesting life, but I wasn’t living an interesting life myself. I think that my marriage [to actress Jennifer Aniston] had something to do with it. Trying to pretend the marriage was something that it wasn’t."“One of the greatest, smartest things I ever did was give my kids Angie as their mom. She is such a great mom. Oh, man, I’m so happy to have her.”"I was surprised at how automatic it is, how much of it is instinctual. And now I have a great confidence and trust in those instincts. I mean, one sound at night and you’re awake and up because they may need you. Or when they start to have a tantrum, you know to divert them from spinning out by helping them focus on something. It just goes on and on. I tell them, “You can make a mess, but you’ve got to clean it up.”"I mean, how many stories have you read that aren’t true, stories about me and Angie being married or fighting or splitting up? And when we don’t split up, there’s a whole new round that we’ve made up and we’re back together again! We’ll get married when everyone can. We’re not splitting up. And we don’t have a seventh child yet."Pitt, whose new movie Moneyball opens September 23, also discusses why he adopted foreign-born children, lessons he learned from his father, and how he got that scar on his cheekbone. Check out PARADE this Sunday. ||||| Things had been going really well for Brad Pitt this fall, with glamorous film festival appearances, Oscar buzz and even some real-life heroics in Scotland. So, leave it to that never-ending thorn in his side -- his former marriage to Jennifer Aniston -- to complicate things. 
 
 Appearing on the cover of the upcoming Parade Magazine, he seems less than positive about his ex-wife in a number of quotes made available ahead of time from the article. 
 
 “I spent the ‘90s trying to hide out, trying to duck the full celebrity cacophony. I started to get sick of myself sitting on a couch, holding a joint, hiding out," he tells the magazine. "It started feeling pathetic. It became very clear to me that I was intent on trying to find a movie about an interesting life, but I wasn’t living an interesting life myself. I think that my marriage [to Aniston] had something to do with it. Trying to pretend the marriage was something that it wasn’t." 
 
 Before the magazine even hits newsstands, Pitt has released a statement to try to pre-empt the controversy, saying that he was taken out of context, and that his career was truly the issue. 
 
 “It grieves me that this was interpreted this way," he says. "Jen is an incredibly giving, loving, and hilarious woman who remains my friend. It is an important relationship I value greatly. The point I was trying to make is not that Jen was dull, but that I was becoming dull to myself – and that, I am responsible for.” 
 
 Pitt discussed his past unhappiness with Entertainment Weekly in their latest cover story, too, though he was speaking about his career with that magazine. 
 
 “I am miserable. Six months in the f*cking dark. Contact lenses, makeup, I’m playing the bitch role…” he said about the "Interview with a Vampire" shoot. “One day, it broke me… I called David Geffen, who was a producer… I said, ‘David, I can’t do this anymore. I can’t do it. How much will it take to get me out?’ And he goes, very calmly, ‘Forty million dollars.’” 
 
 In happier remarks, Pitt glows about his current partner and the mother of his children, Angelina Jolie. 
 
 “I put much more emphasis on being a satisfied man," he tells Parade. "I’m satisfied with making true choices and finding the woman I love, Angie, and building a family that I love so much. A family is a risky venture, because the greater the love, the greater the loss. … That’s the trade-off. But I’ll take it all.” 
 
 Pitt stars in the upcoming "Moneyball," the critical darling that is earning raves from baseball fans -- it's about Oakland A's general manager Billy Beane -- and film reviewers alike. 
 
 For more, click over to Parade. 
 
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 ||||| Brad -- why did you feel the need to be so cruel to Jen in your new interview in Parade magazine? Why did you blame her for making YOU feel pathetic? 
 
 It's not enough, Brad Pitt , that you deserted Jennifer Aniston after seven years of marriage when you fell in love on set with Angelina Jolie , your Mr. & Mrs. co-star? 
 
 It's not enough that you publicly humiliated and embarrassed her by getting Angelina pregnant while still married to her. And furthermore that you and Angelina did a "fabulous" photo shoot for W magazine posing as husband and wife with children, while the bed you had shared with Jen was still warm? 
 
 Oh and that W shoot was apparently your idea, based on the "irony" of the American family. How ironic! 
 
 Now all these years later, when you should have learned a little respect for family -- you have bashed Jen, your first wife, again in the new issue of Parade magazine. 
 
 You blame her for ruining your life. "I spent the '90s trying to hide out, trying to duck the full celebrity cacophony. I started to get sick of myself sitting on a couch, holding a joint, hiding out. It started feeling pathetic. It became very clear to me that I was intent on trying to find a movie about an interesting life, but I wasn't living an interesting life myself. I think that my marriage [to Jennifer] had something to do with it. Trying to pretend the marriage was something that it wasn't." 
 
 How harsh is that! Rudely harsh, Brad! 
 
 Now, you're promoting a movie -- Moneyball -- and you've more than moved on with your life. Why do you feel the need to stick it to your ex, who after all these years has finally found happiness with Justin Theroux? 
 
 Are you secretly upset that she is over you? Are you angry at her because she remained friendly with your mother? 
 
 What's even weirder is that as nasty as you are to Jen, you are ridiculously effusive about Angelina. 
 
 "Oh man, I'm so happy to have her," you tell Parade. One of the greatest, smartest things I ever did was give my kids Angie as their mom. She is such a great mom." 
 
 But that's not all. As if we didn't get it -- that Angie is so much better than Jen -- you go on and on, Brad. 
 
 "I'm satisfied with making true choices and finding the women I love, Angie, and building a family that I love so much." 
 
 Wow, Brad. So you're really pointing out that your first marriage to Jen was "false." And it sure seems like you are "overselling" the fabulousness of your life with Angelina. Is that because you're still guilty about leaving Jen and you're still trying to justify it to yourself and the world? 
 
 Click to read more about Brad bashing Jen ||||| "It grieves me that this was interpreted this way," he says of recent comments about his ex-wife. 
 
 Brad Pitt is backtracking from recent comments he made about his ex-wife, Jennifer Aniston, and their marriage. 
 
 In an interview with Parade magazine, Pitt -- who next stars in Moneyball, which recently premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival -- seemed to criticize Aniston, to whom he was married from 2000-05. 
 
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 “I spent the ‘90s trying to hide out, trying to duck the full celebrity cacophony," he said. "I started to get sick of myself sitting on a couch, holding a joint, hiding out. It started feeling pathetic. It became very clear to me that I was intent on trying to find a movie about an interesting life, but I wasn’t living an interesting life myself. I think that my marriage [to Aniston] had something to do with it. Trying to pretend the marriage was something that it wasn’t." 
 
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 The quotes received a great deal of media attention after they were posted on Parade's website Thursday. Later in the day, Pitt issued a statement to The Hollywood Reporter through his reps at CAA in which he clarified what he was trying to say and praised Aniston. 
 
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 "It grieves me that this was interpreted this way," he said. "Jen is an incredibly giving, loving and hilarious woman who remains my friend. It is an important relationship I value greatly. The point I was trying to make is not that Jen was dull, but that I was becoming dull to myself -- and that, I am responsible for." 
 
 Pitt has largely remained silent about Aniston and their marriage since they got divorced six years ago. However, he did raise eyebrows when he posed with Jolie for a family-themed shoot in the July 2005 issue of W magazine, not long after his split with Aniston. 
 
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 After the magazine came out, Aniston remarked that he was missing a "sensitivity chip." 
 
 Pitt -- who has six children with Angelina Jolie -- is on the promotional tour for Moneyball, which opens Sept. 23. In the movie, which Steven Zaillian adapted from Michael Lewis' best-selling book, Pitt plays Oakland A's general manager Billy Beane, a role that is earning him Oscar buzz. 
 
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 Aniston is currently dating Justin Theroux, who co-stars with her in the upcoming movie Wanderlust.
– Brad Pitt’s really stepped in it now, riling up Team Jen afresh with his comments in the new issue of Parade. You see, back in the ‘90s, he “wasn’t living an interesting life,” he tells the magazine. “I think that my marriage had something to do with it. Trying to pretend the marriage was something that it wasn’t.” It also didn’t help that he was “trying to hide out, trying to duck the full celebrity cacophony … sitting on a couch, holding a joint, hiding out. It started feeling pathetic,” he says. Now Angie, on the other hand: “One of the greatest, smartest things I ever did was give my kids Angie as their mom,” he gushes. “She is such a great mom. Oh, man, I’m so happy to have her.” Predictable outrage ensued, with many people recalling the time when Aniston famously said Pitt is missing a “sensitivity chip.” In response, Pitt issued a statement to the Hollywood Reporter, insisting that he and his ex-wife remain friends: “It grieves me that this was interpreted this way. … The point I was trying to make is not that Jen was dull, but that I was becoming dull to myself—and that, I am responsible for.” Click for more.