Brad Pitt Tells Mag Paparazzi Disgust Him

Actor Opens Up About Life In The Lens, Charity Work With Angelina And Unrelenting Sadness

(CBS)  Next up to bat in the public figures' never-ending fight against the blood-sucking paparazzi? Brad Pitt.

While he was at it, he took some swings at a couple of other hot issues, too.

Originally believing that the "disgusting" hype surrounding him, his partner, Angelina Jolie, and their four children would have died out around a year ago, the 43-year-old award-winning actor is surprised to see that the desire to know each and every detail of their lives is strong than ever, with little relief in sight, he tells Parade magazine in an upcoming issue.

"I understand the tabloid machine," Pitt told the magazine. "There's money to be made off Angie and me, but it has gotten out-of-hand. There's no decency, even when it comes to our kids."

To illustrate his point, Pitt points out a recent incident involving his son and a photographer.

"Angie was taking Maddie off to school … There were 30 paparazzi outside," he said. "One guy sticks a video camera in Mad's face yelling, 'Maddox! Maddox!' He doesn't get a response. He doesn't know my boy. Mad is already savvy to this, unfortunately."

Pitt admits that his experiences with the paparazzi have made him debate how comfortable he really is in the public spotlight.

"You start to see the fickleness of celebrity - that it isn't rooted in something of real value," he said. "There is this strange wanting by people to get next to you. It has nothing to do with you but with something they feel they are missing in themselves."

What Pitt does find of real value, though, is his charity work.

"Philanthropy is good for us," he said. "It's personally rewarding when you see lives change because of an action you take that, though simple for you, means so much to others."

And regardless of what has been reported, his hard work in charity is not a result of being with Jolie, he said.

"I do it because I'm a member of the human race," he said. "We're all cells of one body, with the same emotions and desires for our families - for a little dignity and a chance for a better life."

However, whether Pitt would be willing to extend his work into politics remains to be seen.

"I never thought about it," he said. "I have no desire at this point. Maybe I serve better by not going through that door."

Perhaps his desire to stay out of the limelight and out of political office makes sense, given his melancholy personality, he said.

"I always felt a pervasive sadness," he said. "I'm not sure I earned it, because it was always there. It existed in the place where I grew up - in my family, in people who have true sweetness and true goodness. Maybe it’s a congenital sadness that everyone has to some degree."

This article will be featured in the next issue of Parade, out Oct. 7.

[mikiddzmum]

Brad Pitt is a joke...along with his movie roles. You want to be a movie star and cheat on America''s sweetheart with the devil and you are offended by the pappz. Hey Brad...here''s a reality check...the pappz go with the territory. So if you don''t like the pappz, kind of like how the public can''t stand you or your homewrecking baby mamma, quit making movies already.

[dgshiner]

I applaud you Mr. Pitt for standing up intelligently and blasting the tabloids they take journalism to a new level and it is sad something should be done as for your family continue to take care of them as best you can and as for the paparazzi I think someone needs to go back and rewrite a new rules and regulations about others privacy!

[keithle1]

What a scoop! Shocking. I thought celebs
L-O-V-E-D the paparazzi?

If Brad had stuck with his journalism, no one would know who he is. He''d be married to some fat broad & have three kids.

Pitt''s life with Angelina appeals to the
women who read this magazines/tabloids. All
the stupidness with his ex Jennifer Anniston. Women love a soap opera. Drama.

It''s women who perpetuate this stuff. It''s not men. Not heterosexual men anyway.

[tinawallace-2009]

Did I miss something? Wife?? I thought they were not married????
Who knew!!!

[Rontimcoe]

Amen Brad,
Screw the paparazzi.
If I were you I would carry a can of black spray paint and after a warning to not get closer than the range of the spray can, I would spray any lens within that range.

They are obnoxious.

[gbaney-2009]

You people have small little lives to go with your small little minds, leave the man and his family alone.....

[agnim]

"He used to have class - what happened?
Posted by thenicks3 at 07:08 PM : Oct 02, 2007"
Right ''used to have class''; but look who bungling Brad is now dikking, a ***? LOL

[misssuzq]

Well, without the cameras and the photos, your ho-hum movies alone would not have made you the money that you have made!

You are boring to me.

[agnim]

"Brad Pitt Tells Mag Paparazzi Disgust Him"

And your dumb and wicked witch of a woman disgusts MANY for kidnapping children from their indigenous cultures to **** up their minds.

Tell that dumb witch of yours to SEND MONEY FOR THE CHILDREN''S UP KEEP, if she has the mentality to care, and leave the children in their indigenous cultures.

[thenicks3]

Poor baby - - Brad puts himself in the limelight, he uses the media to further his personal agenda, he is EXTREMELY rude to the fans that wait in line at a movie premier, and now he''s going to start blasting the only venue that gives a *** about him? Interesting strategy. He used to have class - what happened?