Superstar Brad Pitt insists he couldn't have handled his split from
ex-wife
Jennifer
Aniston any better, and that he did all he could to painlessly end
their relationship before he started romancing
Angelina
Jolie.
Pitt met Jolie on the set of 2005 movie Mr.
& Mrs. Smith, but deliberately delayed making a move for the
beauty out of respect to his then-wife Aniston.
He tells American magazine V, "The most important thing to me
about that time was for Jen and me to figure out if... we didn't want to
go on with any outside
influence: `Is this where we get off? Have we taken this as far as we
wanted to go?'
"Those questions had to be answered before an attraction to Angie
could be answered."
He adds, "I don't know how better to have handled it. The thing
guiding me then was you don't know how many days you have, and you need
life to be everything you need it to be."