What's REALLY Behind Brad Pitt's Children Removing "Pitt" Name... and Angelina Jolie's Role

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Jul 16, 2026
Megyn Kelly is joined by Adam Carolla, host of the Adam Carolla Show, to discuss why several of Brad Pitt’s children have dropped the "Pitt" surname, whether Angelina Jolie turned the children against their father during and after the divorce, and more.
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AI GeneratedThis discussion focuses on the public fallout between Brad Pitt and his children, who are increasingly distancing themselves from him by dropping his last name. The speakers debate whether this is a result of Pitt's alleged behavior or a calculated effort by Angelina Jolie to alienate the children from their father.
Now, what about Brad Pitt? He's in the news this week. You're of Hollywood. He's in the news this
week because he's got like six kids with Angelina Jolie. Most are adopted, but a couple were
biological to the two of them. But all of them, from the sound of it, have disowned him,
distanced themselves from him. And two of the remaining, I don't know, two have already done
this and two more just announced that they are dropping Pitt from their name. They're just going
to be last name Jolie now. And these are public declarations. You have to, in order to change
your name under California law, I guess you have to publish it in the paper, your new name.
So that's how we know. But two of his remaining children have come out to distance themselves
from him and say, we no longer even want to have his name. This reportedly roots back to,
among other incidents, something that happened on a plane, a private plane between Brad and
Angelina, where he reportedly roughed up Angelina Jolie. His team denies it.
But the general take is that he hasn't been an attentive, loving, present good father. And it
seems like most of these kids feel that way about him. Are we to believe it or is this
Hollywood publicists battling it out and one is just better at it than the other?
Well, first, I'd like to be on the record that if my dad roughed up my mom, but I still got to
fly private, I would probably look the other way and just go on that, that Learjet. Number one,
I just want to be straight with you because, again, I'm not trying to win any popularity
contests. It's not a closed fist, obviously, but just a little, you know, 1950 style roughing up
to Chris Corolla from Jim Corolla. But I got to fly private. I think I would sign off and I'm
pretty sure my sister would go along with it as well. So I just want to be up. Thank you for
that disclosure. Again, I'm not doing a Meghan Markle running for office here. It's not a
I there'll be no Emmy coming over the moon. If Brad Pitt was my dad, I really would like I would
sit down every night and we would watch Once Upon a Time in Hollywood and I'd have a huge
smile on my face. I think Angelina Jolie is nuts. I think she hates her dad. Yeah. I think when a
woman hates her dad, she will often oftentimes transfer that on to whatever male figure is
closest to her. So if a woman really hates her dad, there is oftentimes going to be a problem
with the husband. It will be transferred. I'm sure Brad Pitt liked to get his drink on and
said a few things and maybe did a few things in the relationship, as many relationships do.
Definitely have snags and bumps. But I think she's nuts. And I think she was trying to poison
the kids or brainwash the kids. I have found in my experience that when a woman has a problem
with the husband, she'll oftentimes try to collect lieutenants. She'll try to get they'll
you have to take sides with women. There is a lot of you've got to take one side or the other.
You know, you can't you can't be neutral, whether it's a child or even just a friend,
you know, like anyone who's been through this situation where this couple got divorced.
The women mostly insist that you pick a side. It's not like that you can just still be friends
with the ex-husband and still be friends with her. You have to show your allegiance. So I wonder
if she sort of indoctrinated the kids. It feels like she's nuts and kind of poison the kids
on him. And this is more her than them, because I have no idea why else they would want to do this.
It's it's not it's not hard to believe, like you point out the relationship with the father.
Now they have I don't know, again, I think it's six kids. But according to the press,
Maddox was adopted from Cambodia. Zahara was adopted from Ethiopia. Those are the latest
two to drop the pet name. Vivian also appeared as Vivian Jolie only in the playbill for Broadway's
The Outsiders in twenty twenty four. Only Pax and Knox currently use their original hyphenated
last names. Shiloh, that's one of the biological ones, I think, became the first of the couple's
last name. She did so on her 18th birthday in twenty twenty four. He is reportedly devastated
by the decision. You know, I have no idea what goes on in this marriage. But to your point,
like you can get a very, very angry, bitter ex-wife like Mia Farrow, who completely poisons
the children. I I my own belief is that Dylan Farrow was completely mind poisoned by Mia
about these alleged abuse allegations against Woody. It's not to excuse Woody's affair with
Soon-Yi. And I mean, of course, Mia would be very angry over that. And I understand that and don't
have any qualms with it. However, I completely believe she turned that child on Woody with
fake abuse allegations and that while Dylan genuinely believes it's true, she's been brainwashed
into it. That's just my opinion.
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