[News] Jennifer Aniston reflects on how hysteria of her failed relationship with Brad Pitt made her walk off ‘Friends’ reunion so many times

 

Actress, Jennifer Aniston has admitted to walking off sitcom “Friends’ Reunion so many times due to being reminded of her past relationship with Brad Pitt.

The 52-year-old actress and producer starred in the NBC show from 1994 until 2004, a time when her relationship with Brad Pitt became hot Hollywood news. The pair split in 2005.

In a new interview the “Friends’ Star admitted to being “so naive” to think that revisiting that time in her life would be easy during the show’s highly anticipated reunion, which premiered on HBO Max early 2021.

 

 

“Time travel is hard,” Aniston said, while reflecting on how the massive media attention from starring on an iconic television show affected her personal life.

“Then you get there and it’s like, ‘Oh right, I hadn’t thought about what was going on the last time I was actually here,” Aniston recalled in a new Hollywood Reporter cover story.

 

“It was like, ‘Hi, past, remember me? Remember how that sucked? You thought everything was in front of you and life was going to be just gorgeous and then you went through maybe the hardest time in your life?’” she continued.

 

“It was all very jarring and, of course, you’ve got cameras everywhere and I’m already a little emotionally accessible, I guess you could say.”

At times while filming the reunion show, Aniston said she got so overwhelmed that she “had to walk out.”

“Is it a sliver of an annoyance to have to publicly go through dark s— in front of the world? Yes, it’s an inconvenience, but it’s all relative,” she explained.

“So, I had a choice to make: Either I’m going to surrender into bonbons and living under my covers or I’m going to go out there and find a creative outlet and thrive, and that’s what I did. It just happened to be with a movie called ‘The Break-Up.’”

Without specifying, Aniston did reveal that while she appeared on the comedy series, her expectations for her personal life “sort of shape-shifted.”

 

She confessed that her reaction to the media’s obsession with her personal life ultimately evolved.

“I used to take it all very personally— the pregnancy rumors and the whole ‘Oh, she chose career over kids’ assumption. It’s like, ‘You have no clue what’s going with me personally, medically, why I can’t … can I have kids?’” the Sheman Oaks, Calif., native shared.

“They don’t know anything, and it was really hurtful and just nasty.”