Brad Pitt is responding to comments his old friend Melissa Etheridge made about Angelina Jolie’s decision to get a preventative double mastectomy. Although he doesn’t seem too happy about them, he chose not to comment publicly.
Etheridge told Washintgon Blade that Jolie’s decision to undergo the surgery wasn’t the most “brave” choice, rather it was the most “fearful.”
She said, “I have to say I feel a little differently. I have that gene mutation too and it’s not something I would believe in for myself. I wouldn’t call it the brave choice. I actually think it’s the most fearful choice you can make when confronting anything with cancer.”
The singer, who sang at Pitt’s wedding to Jennifer Aniston, continued, “My belief is that cancer comes from inside you and so much of it has to do with the environment of your body. It’s the stress that will turn that gene on or not. Plenty of people have the gene mutation and everything but it never comes to cancer so I would say to anybody faced with that, that choice is way down the line on the spectrum of what you can do and to really consider the advancements we’ve made in things like nutrition and stress levels.
“I’ve been cancer free for nine years now and looking back, I completely understand why I got cancer. There was so much acidity in everything. I really encourage people to go a lot longer and further before coming to that conclusion,” she concluded.
In response, Pitt told Us Weekly "Melissa's an old friend of mine. I'm sure we'll talk on the phone. I don't know what it is."
"I think it's an individual decision and I found it very empowering instead of scary," he also said. "We experienced the exact opposite."
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