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\nJennifer Aniston gave some rare comments about her divorce from Brad Pitt in her newly published September cover interview for Vanity FairThe Morning Show actress called the time following their split 20 years ago “such a vulnerable” period in her lifeAniston, who later married Justin Theroux, is currently dating hypnotherapist Jim Curtis<\/p>\n
Jennifer Aniston<\/a> is giving some rare insight into her divorce from Brad Pitt<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n The Morning Show<\/a> actress, 56, opens up about the time following her marriage to the F1<\/a> star in a newly published cover interview for the September issue of Vanity Fair<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n Notably, the story comes almost exactly 20 years after her September 2005 Vanity Fair article titled “The Unsinkable Jennifer Aniston,”<\/a> which was her first interview following her breakup from Pitt, 61, after almost five years of marriage.\n<\/p>\n \u201cI haven\u2019t looked at that article in forever,” Aniston said in her new interview, of the 2005 one. “I just remember the experience of doing it \u2014 which was kind of jarring. It was also such a vulnerable time. But yeah, that was one for the memoirs.”<\/p>\n Never miss a story \u2014 sign up for\u00a0PEOPLE’s free daily newsletter<\/a>\u00a0to stay up-to-date on the best of what PEOPLE has to offer\u200b\u200b, from celebrity news to compelling human-interest stories.<\/p>\n Jennifer Aniston for the September 2025 issue of Vanity Fair.<\/p>\n Norman Jean Roy\/Vanity Fair<\/p>\n In a video<\/a> from her new interview, the Friends<\/a> alum also recalls making 2006’s The Break-Up<\/a> with Vince Vaughn<\/a> while she was going through her real-life split from Pitt.\n<\/p>\n “I might’ve just gone through a separation \u2014 that little separation, I’m sure nobody remembers that,” Aniston joked. “It was kind of cathartic to go right from that. So when they came to me … they were a little nervous about making the offer, ’cause they thought, ‘Oh, is that insensitive? Is it inappropriate?’ But I actually thought, ‘What a great opportunity.’ ”\n<\/p>\n Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston in Los Angeles on Sept. 4, 2001. “I knew it would actually kind of benefit me emotionally, just as a human being,” she explained. “And also serve the script and the character pretty well.”<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Pitt and Aniston were introduced by their managers in 1994 and secretly dated beginning in 1998, before tying the knot<\/a> in a lavish July 2000 ceremony.\n<\/p>\n They ultimately called it quits in 2005 and went on to wed other people: Pitt, his\u00a0Mr. & Mrs. Smith<\/a> costar\u00a0Angelina Jolie<\/a>, and Aniston, actor\u00a0Justin Theroux<\/a>. Pitt is currently in a relationship with jewelry designer Ines de Ramon<\/a>, while Aniston is dating hypnotherapist Jim Curtis<\/a>.<\/p>\n In recent years, Aniston and Pitt have appeared to rekindle their friendship, delighting fans with not one but two reunions in 2020: a warm backstage embrace at the\u00a0SAG Awards<\/a>\u00a0that\u00a0quickly went viral<\/a>,\u00a0and a virtual table reading of\u00a0Fast Times at Ridgemont High<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n “I really do hope that someday we can be friends again,” Aniston told\u00a0Vanity Fair\u00a0in the wake of their split in 2005. “I will love [Brad] for the rest of my life. He’s a fantastic man. I don’t regret any of it, and I’m not going to beat myself up about it.”<\/p>\n Jennifer Aniston on the September 2025 cover of Vanity Fair.<\/p>\n Norman Jean Roy\/Vanity Fair<\/p>\n Recalling that period in her life following her breakup from Pitt, Aniston revealed in the more recent Vanity Fair interview her way of getting through it: Telling herself, \u201cJust pick yourself up by the bootstraps and keep on walking, girl.\u201d\n<\/p>\n
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