Following the news last week that Angelina Jolie was filing for divorce from Brad Pitt, one person was instantly thrust into the narrative on social media and the tabloids: Jennifer Aniston.
Aniston's divorce with Pitt in 2005 ended a five-year marriage and came amid rumors that Pitt had been unfaithful with Jolie while the two made "Mr. & Mrs. Smith" that year.
Aniston has been in a relationship with actor Justin Theroux ("The Leftovers") since 2011, and the two married in 2015.
As Aniston has stayed quiet about the Jolie-Pitt split, Theroux spoke with Business Insider on Monday about the news while doing press for his next movie, "The Girl on the Train" (opening in theaters October 7).
"As a child of divorce, all I can say is that's terrible news for those children, and that's all you can really say," Theroux said, referring to Jolie and Pitt's six children. "It's boring to sort of comment on anything else. People are having a bad time — that's horrible."
The way Theroux sees it, Aniston being thrust into the marital problems of Jolie and Pitt by the tabloids is just the latest wave of what he calls "nonsense."
"There's an endless appetite for trash, apparently, though everyone would say that they don't have that appetite," Theroux said. "But I think a lot of people do because people buy it. But there are bigger things to b---- about. It's shocking how much bandwidth things can take up when there are far more important things going on in the world."
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