BRAD PITT & ANGELINA JOLIE: Family Secrets REVEALED

SHOCKING COURT DOCS EXPOSE PARENTING CLASHES, INTERFERENCE CLAIMS AND ABUSE ACCUSATIONS. WHY BRAD PITT AND ANGELINA JOLIE ARE STILL FIGHTING AFTER EIGHT YEARS.

THEY'D never seen her like this. As Angelina Jolie underwent an emotional transformation in Maria, her new movie about opera legend Maria Callas, sons Maddox, 23, and Pax, 21 -working on set as producT tion assistants saw laid bare what she's tried to shield from them and their four siblings. "They hadn't experienced me expressing a lot of the pain that usually at parent hides from a child," she told the BBC while promoting the film, now streaming on Netflix. "So they were there to witness some of that, but then we would hug or they would bring me cups of tea."

Parents try to protect, but children always seem to know. Eight years into the 49-yearold's bitter divorce and custody battle with Brad Pitt, 61, Maddox, Pax, Zahara, 20, Shiloh, 18, and 16-year-old twins Knox and Vivienne are forever caught in the middle.

"At first Brad and Angelina fought in private and made up in private," a source tells Star.

"But after the split, their fighting became a public spectacle." Now, Star has obtained explosive sealed court documents that reveal new details about the former couple's clashes -about everything from their children's education to emergency medical care and allegations of abuse, exposing what the kids knew.

EDUCATION DISPUTE

The couple had very different ideas on how to parent post-split, for example. One newly surfaced March 2020 filing references recommendations made in November 2019 by the former couple's parenting-plan coordinator.

At the time, Zahara and Shiloh were facing serious medical issues-Angelina wrote in an essay for Time that Zahara underwent multiple surgeries for an unspecified problem, while Shiloh "went under the knife for hip surgery."Despite that, their parents continued to duke it out over the kids' education.