Now, as the contents of the three-year-old post have been made public, sources close to Pitt claimed that the 59-year-old finds it ‘depressing to see this dragged up’.

The insider told The Sun: ‘It’s frustrating to see Brad being painted as some kind of “bad person” when it’s far from the truth.’ The source added that Pitt has ‘great respect’ for each one of his children and says it ‘speaks volumes’ that he ‘chooses to keep a dignified silence’ about the situation.

Pax Jolie-Pitt called his father a ‘terrible and despicable person’ who makes his four youngest children ‘tremble in fear’ in a rant posted for Father’s Day 2020. Pictured: Angelina Jolie and Pax attending the 75th Annual Golden Globe Awards in January 2018

Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie are pictured with their children Maddox Jolie-Pitt, Shiloh Jolie-Pitt, Pax Jolie-Pitt, Knox Jolie-Pitt, Vivienne Jolie-Pitt and Zahara Jolie-Pitt at the LAX Airport in Los Angeles, California in June 2014

Brad Pitt appeared to hit back last night after his adopted son branded the Hollywood actor a ‘world class a**hole’ and ‘f***ing awful human’ in an explosive Instagram post

The insider told The Sun that it is ‘frustrating to see Brad being painted as some kind of ‘bad person’ when it’s far from the truth.’ Pictured: Brad Pitt during the F1 Grand Prix of Las Vegas at Las Vegas Strip Circuit on November 18, 2023

Angelina Jolie adopted Pax from an orphanage in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, in 2007. He was three years old and had been dumped as a newborn by his heroin-addicted biological mother.

Pitt, Jolie’s then-husband, formally adopted him the following year.

When Pitt and Jolie, 48, split in 2016 just two years after they had married in a private ceremony in France, the children stayed with their mother amid reports of an altercation aboard a private jet between eldest son Maddox and his father.

Now it is clear that the relationship between Pax and Pitt is also troubled, with the 19-year-old accusing his dad of making his life ‘hell’ in the extraordinary social media rant.

Pax, 19, was adopted at age three by Angelina Jolie in 2006 having spent his early years in a Vietnamese orphanage

‘You have made the lives of those closest to me a constant hell,’ Pax wrote in the June 2020 post.

‘You may tell yourself and the world whatever you want,’ he added, ‘but the truth will come to light someday.’

Then he sarcastically added: ‘So Happy Father’s Day, you f*****g awful human being.’

A source this week confirmed that the private account does belong to Pax. ‘It’s the account he uses for friends – friends from school mostly. He never says much about his parents, keeps himself to himself, so that was unusual.’

Pax did not say if there was a specific event that had set him off or whether it was a culmination of years of tension.

In his post, Pax called his adoptive father ‘a world class a**hole’, adding: ‘You time and time and again prove yourself to be a terrible and despicable person.

‘You have no consideration or empathy toward your four youngest children who tremble in fear when in your presence.

‘You will never understand the damage you have done to my family because you’re incapable of doing so.’

Although Pax was the third child – after brother Maddox and sister Zahara – that Jolie adopted, he is one year older than Zahara.

The four youngest children who he claimed Pitt made tremble would be Zahara, now 18, and the couple’s three biological children, Shiloh, 17, and 15-year-old twins Knox and Vivienne.

MailOnline has approached Pitt and Jolie’s representatives for comment.

DailyMail.com can reveal Pax Jolie-Pitt, 19, accused his dad of making his life ‘hell’ in an extraordinary social media rant in 2020. Pax Jolie-Pitt is pictured with Angelina Jolie in 2018

Brad Pitt won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor for Once Upon a Time… In Hollywood in February 2020

Pax and dad Brad are pictured in 2014 before Brad and Angie’s split. ‘So, Happy Father’s Day, you f***ing awful human being!!!’ Pax wrote

Pax said in the rant that Brad makes his four youngest children ‘tremble in fear.’ All six of their children – Pax, 19, Maddox, 22, Zahara, 18, Shiloh, 17, and twins Knox and Vivienne, 15, are pictured with Angelina in 2018

The former couple are pictured at Brie-Champniers airport in France as they board a private jet with their kids in 2007 – a year before Jolie’s claims that Pitt flew into a rage, grabbing her by the head, shaking her, and shoving her into a bathroom wall before punching the ceiling numerous times while on a private jet

In August 2016, after 11 years together, Brad and Angie shocked the world when they announced that they were going their separate ways. They’re seen in 2006

Angelina Jolie penned a two-page letter to California Governor Gavin Newsom urging him to support a bill that would provide domestic violence training for judges. The actress is pictured with her son Maddox in July 2005

Jolie allegedly cited her own custody battle, in which the judge denied her children the opportunity to testify about the abuse they suffered at the hands of their father. She and Brad Pitt are pictured together in May 2009

Jolie and her ex-husband, actor Brad Pitt, have six children together and share 50-50 custody. The couple are pictured with their children in September 2019

The judge, John Ouderkirk, was eventually removed after the court found he had failed to disclose business dealings with Pitt’s legal team. Pictured: Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie in 2014

Jolie challenged the judge’s tentative custody decision and filed a petition in the appellate court to remove him from the case. Pictured: Angelina Jolie with her children Shiloh Jolie-Pitt, Zahara Jolie-Pitt, Vivienne Jolie-Pitt, Maddox Jolie-Pitt and Knox Jolie-Pitton in October 2021

Source: https://www.dailymail.co.uk