Brad IN CRISIS

BETWEEN LAWSUITS WITH HIS EX, HIS CHILDREN LASHING OUT AND TWO RECENT FILM FLOPS, BRAD PITT'S HAVING A ROUGH GO. HOW HE'S COPING - AND WHY HE BLAMES FORMER WIFE ANGELINA JOLIE FOR THE WORST YEAR OF HIS LIFE.

PAX JOLIE-PITT didn't mince words in a recently discovered rant that the 19-year-old posted on Instagram in 2020 directed at his estranged P dad, Brad Pitt. "Happy Father's Day to this world class a**hole!! You time and time again prove yourself to be a terrible and despicable person," Pax reportedly wrote alongside a photo of Brad accepting his 2020 Oscar. "You have made the lives of those closest to me a constant hell. You may tell yourself and the world whatever you want, but the truth will come to light someday," he added, before calling Brad a "f**king awful human being." The post, a source tells Star, "cut Brad to the bone."

It's just the latest in a series of setbacks, disappointments and crises the 59-year-old actor has faced recently. In mid-November, Brad's eldest daughter, Zahara, also seemed to reject her dad by dropping his last name. At an Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority event at Spelman College, where she's a student, the 18-year-old introduced herself as "Zahara Marley Jolie," keeping mom Angelina Jolie's surname, but not his. Seven years after filing for divorce, Brad and his ex who also share Maddox, 22, Shiloh, 17, and 15-year-old twins Knox and Vivienne also remain locked in a bitter court battle over their French winery, Château Miraval. Adding to that litany, Brad's once smoking-hot career has been battered by two 2022 box-office bombs, Babylon and Bullet Train. It's all, the source says, "a painful reminder of better days." 

BAD BLOOD