Angelina Jolie shares an update on her dating life 10 years after splitting from Brad Pitt
Angelina Jolie wasn’t looking for Mr. Right.
In fact, the Mr. & Mrs. Smith star admitted that she hasn’t prioritized her love life since her split from ex-husband Brad Pitt in 2016, before their divorce was finalized in 2024.
“Honestly, I haven’t dated since my divorce 10 years ago,” Jolie told Yahoo! Entertainment in an interview published on June 22nd. “So when I’m focused on my kids and my family, in the back of my mind I wonder if that aspect of me isn’t at the center of my life.”
The mother of Maddox, 24, Pax, 22, Zahara, 21, Shiloh, 20, and twins Knox and Vivienne, 17, reflected on pursuing a romantic relationship through hardship while discussing her 2026 film Couture, about a filmmaker who rediscovers herself after being diagnosed with breast cancer.
“It took me a while to say, ‘She can love her daughter and be devoted to her daughter, and as a woman, she can need this and accept this,'” Jolie said of her role. She personally links it to her having a prophylactic double mastectomy in 2013 after discovering she had the BRCA1 gene mutation, which indicates a genetic risk for cancer. “Maybe I could go back to my old self a little bit.”
