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\n Some things can stay in the \u201990s.
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Now that she\u2019s a veteran newswoman herself, The Morning Show star Jennifer Aniston<\/a> has even more perspective on the tabloid mania surrounding the 2005 end of her marriage to Brad Pitt<\/a>. \u201cIt was such juicy reading for people,\u201d she tells Vanity Fair<\/a> in its September cover story. \u201cIf they didn\u2019t have their soap operas, they had their tabloids.\u201d It has been 20 years since she first addressed rumors that she was in a \u201clove triangle\u201d with Pitt\u2019s future ex-wife, Angelina Jolie<\/a>, in a Vanity Fair story. \u201cI haven\u2019t looked at that article in forever. I just remember the experience of doing it \u2014 which was kind of jarring. It was also such a vulnerable time,\u201d she says today. \u201cJournalism back then felt more like a form of a sport. There\u2019s obviously some PTSD we all have, which is why these scare me. How are they going to misinterpret my words or take something out of context? And one line nowadays \u2026\u201d<\/p>\n At the time, even what she and Pitt didn\u2019t say became news, filling supermarket tabloids and fueling the growth of online gossip media with rumors about Aniston\u2019s alleged unwillingness to have children in contrast with Jolie, who had adopted son Maddox<\/a> from Cambodia in 2002. \u201cIt\u2019s a shame that it had to happen, but it happened,\u201d she says of the rumors and nastiness<\/a>. \u201cAnd boy did I take it personally.\u201d It has made her more skeptical of sensationalized news stories \u2014 good and bad \u2014 not unlike her news-anchor character on The Morning Show. \u201cThey were sort of building us up and then tearing you down,\u201d she says of the Y2K-era tabloids, starting to sound like an Alex Levy<\/a> quote comparing herself to a pi\u00f1ata (\u201cOh God, did I just quote\u00a0The Morning Show?\u201d) before continuing. \u201cI didn\u2019t have a strong enough constitution to not get affected by it. We\u2019re human beings, even though some people don\u2019t want to believe we are. They think, You signed up for it, so you take it. But we really didn\u2019t sign up for that.\u201d<\/p>\n Her support system to this day includes some of the era\u2019s biggest tabloid targets such as Sandra Bullock and Pitt\u2019s other ex, Gwyneth Paltrow. Pitt, meanwhile, should be afraid of the gossip they exchange when they\u2019re together. \u201cHow can we not?\u201d Aniston says. \u201cWe\u2019re girls.\u201d<\/p>\n Related<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Some things can stay in the \u201990s. Photo: Toni Anne Barson\/WireImage Now that she\u2019s a veteran newswoman herself,…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":138498,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[42125,1043,435,9453,171,14273,50,82965,33005,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-138497","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-angelina-jolie","9":"tag-brad-pitt","10":"tag-celebrity","11":"tag-celebrity-relationships","12":"tag-entertainment","13":"tag-jennifer-aniston","14":"tag-news","15":"tag-retro-gossip","16":"tag-the-morning-show","17":"tag-united-states","18":"tag-unitedstates","19":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115013399602298162","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138497","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=138497"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138497\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/138498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}