Brad Pitt’s son Knox showed off a bold new look in LA on Monday – just hours after the actor revealed he battled suicidal thoughts as a result of his estrangement from his children.
Knox, 18, who dropped Pitt’s last name in June, sported a bold red hairdo worn in spikes, with shaved sides dyed bleach blond.
The nepo baby was seen jogging with pals after his latest Muay Thai training session, hours after Pitt made the bombshell revelation in an intimate interview with Esquire.
Knox, his twin Vivienne and older sister Shiloh, 19, were welcomed during mom Angelina Jolie’s relationship with Pitt which ended in divorce in 2016.
Jolie and Pitt were together for about a decade before they married in 2014 but filed for divorce two years later in 2016.
Jolie cited irreconcilable differences and later accused Pitt of abusing both her and their children, which he has denied.
Brad Pitt’s son Knox showed off a bold new look in LA on Monday – hours after the actor revealed he battled suicidal thoughts as a result of the estrangement from his children
Knox’s outing came hours after the release of Pitt’s tell-all Esquire UK interview
Their lengthy, contentious divorce battle was finalized in late 2024, and since then, many of their kids have dropped Pitt’s surname amid their ongoing estrangement.
The Daily Mail has contacted representatives for Jolie for comment.
In June Knox removed the last name of Pitt from his high school diploma as he graduated from Fusion Academy in Los Angeles earlier this month, per Page Six.
Instead, the teen’s name was simply listed as Knox Jolie on the official certificate.
Knox was cheered on by his mother at the graduation ceremony as well as brother Pax, twin sister Vivienne and sister Zahara.
Pitt, 62, addressed the topic in a rare interview, explaining that while he would never act on his suicidal feelings, the ‘oppressive’ pain left him feeling like he had no way out.
He told Esquire UK: ‘I was never suicidal in any way. It just was not my makeup. In fact, if I have any afflictions, it’s probably being a congenital optimist. Which has helped many times, and it’s also gotten me – I’ve walked foolishly head-on into a Mack truck because of my optimism.
‘Or, as my forever-funny friend David Fincher will say, “Yeah, you see the glass as half full, but it’s half full of urine.”
‘Anyway, I’ve never been suicidal except for one little period. And in that one little period, I just thought – I just couldn’t – just didn’t see a way out. The pain was so oppressive that – I wasn’t going to act on this, but I could feel – I could feel the cold steel of the bullet in my head, and it felt like relief.
Knox, 18, who dropped Pitt’s last name in June, sported a bold red hairdo worn in spikes, with shaved side dyed bleach blond
The style bore a striking resemblance to Pitt’s bold do in 2014 film, Fury
The nepo baby was seen jogging with pals after his latest Muy Thai training session, hours after Pitt’s interview emerged
In June the then 17-year-old removed the last name of Pitt from his high school diploma as he graduated from Fusion Academy in Los Angeles earlier this month, per Page Six; Jolie and Knox seen in 2024 in Hollywood
Back in 2016, Pitt and Jolie’s relationship came to an explosive end after the pair got into an alleged physical altercation while on a private flight with their six kids; seen in 2015
The two stars share three biological children Shiloh, 20, as well as twins Knox and Vivienne. The pair also share Maddox, 24, Pax, 22 and Zahara, 21; seen in 2011 in Tokyo
‘And I thought, “Oh, okay, now I understand” – I understand suicide, in the sense that it’s just relief. It’s just looking for relief from the pain.
‘But I also think we have incredible survival instincts. And for me, that immediately kicked in, but it was just… Yeah. Like, listen: This s**t ain’t easy… And you’re talking to a guy who won the lottery.’
When quizzed by the interviewer, Pitt confirmed he was talking about ‘family stuff’.
Shiloh also now goes by Shiloh Nouvel Jolie as she filed paperwork to legally remove her estranged dad’s surname from her own when she turned 18 in the summer of 2024.
Then, in February, Maddox dropped Pitt from his professional credits as he appeared as Maddox Jolie in the production notes for the film Couture and screenings of the movie Maria.
In May 2024, Vivienne was credited as Vivienne Jolie, not Vivienne Jolie-Pitt, on the playbill for The Outsiders, the Broadway musical.
Pitt made a shocking remark about his family after his bitter divorce with Jolie officially came to an end, but his fractured relationship with their six children remains unresolved.
The F1 actor has been romantically linked to Ines de Ramon since 2022; the couple seen in May in L.A.
Pitt, who believes his relationship with two of his children is ‘unfixable,’ opened up about how important family is to him, amid his ongoing and escalating estrangement from his kids.
Speaking at the F1 premiere in Mexico City, he said: ‘No matter the mistake, you just learn from [it] and move on,’ he told ET. ‘It’ll lead to the next success.’
The Oscar winner continued, ‘When you get to my age, you realize how important it is to surround yourself with the people you love, the people that love you back.’
‘Friends, family, and that’s it,’ he added. ‘From there, we get to go make things. It’s a pretty simple, I think, equation.’
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