Hollywood heavyweight Brad Pitt has said that Australian singer Nick Cave helped him recover from the trauma of his divorce with Angeline Jolie.
Pitt and Cave starred together in the 1991 box office bomb Johnny Suede. However, despite the movie flopping, the two actors struck up a strong friendship. They came together for a recent interview for Financial Times, in which they were joined by their friend Thomas Houseago. The three men have launched a combined art project at an exhibition in Finland.
In the interview, Pitt said Houseago and Cave helped him deal with the trauma associated with his divorce from Jolie.
“Our mutual misery became comic,” Pitt told the publication, partially referring to Cave’s tragic loss of his two sons Jethro and Arthur.
“And out of this misery came a flame of joy in my life.”
Cave added, “We started to meet up as a group – a weird, diverse collection of people who would sit around a table on weekends”.
“To go out and talk to people freely about things, that was something new to me,” he continued. “Normally, I just work away and do my thing, and I have my friends and all of that sort of stuff. But we were allowed to talk about anything. And, for me, that was a very freeing situation to be in.”
Cave’s son Arthur died in 2015 from an accidental fall in Brighton, UK at age 15. The artist’s son Jethro died in May this year at the age of 31, no official cause of death has been confirmed.
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“With much sadness, I can confirm that my son, Jethro, has passed away. We would be grateful for family privacy at this time,” Cave said in a statement at the time of his son’s death.
Shortly after the statement was released, he followed up with a note thanking fans for their well wishes. “I have no question for you today. I just wanted to send my heartfelt condolences on the tragic loss of Jethro. All I can do is offer the collective love of all who read your letters.”
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