Brad PittBrad Pitt has revealed he and ex-wife Jennifer Aniston are still good friends despite their somewhat messy split.

The pair were married for seven years before separating in 2005, with the split deepened by his friendship/relationship with his Mr and Mrs Smith co-star Angelina Jolie.

Brad told Details magazine recently: “Jen and I still maintain a deep friendship and have a lot of life together that isn’t erased in any way.”

Regarding the media interest in their separation, he said: “I don’t know how better to have handled it.”

“My view was, this is no one’s business in the end - at least in matters of the heart. So you need to protect all involved as much as possible.”

“I don’t know if that cooled things off or exacerbated them, but it was a thing I felt justly about at the time.”

“The thing guiding me then was you don’t know how many days you have and you need life to be everything you want it to be.”

He added that the Jennifer/Angelina feud is a complete invention: “It’s so manufactured. We don’t pay attention to it. I hear that they drag my mom into it too. She doesn’t deserve any of this.”