Jennifer nervous about running into Brangelina

It looks like Aniston has no choice but to face him at Clooney’s wedding.

The Friends star Jennifer Aniston is seeing a confidence coach as she is worried she may run into her ex-husband actor Brad Pitt at George Clooney’s wedding. Aniston and Pitt were married for seven years before they ended their marriage. The 47-year-old actor is nervous about facing Pitt and his actor-fiancée Angelina Jolie and wants to do everything she can to put her anxieties to rest, reported the Deccan Chronicle. Aniston’s publicists have worked overtime trying to keep her away from her ex-husband at Hollywood functions, but now it looks like she has no choice but to face him at Clooney’s wedding.

Clooney is known to be good friends with both Pitt and his ex-wife. The famous Hollywood star is said to marry his fiancée Amal Alamuddin in Italy in September.

“Jen’s no stranger to therapy, so she decided to seek some help. She’ll have Justin Theroux (fiancé) there for support, but the thought of seeing Brad and Angelina is quite overwhelming. The therapist has been helping to build her confidence and eliminate the fear she seems to have built up about coming face-to-face with them,” said a source, reported Bang Showbiz.

Aniston last saw Pitt and Jolie at the 2009 Oscars and that is the only time she saw them since her controversial divorce nine years ago. “The Oscars were one thing, but George’s wedding will involve being in a smaller, far more intimate group where they won’t be able to avoid one another. Jen wants to be as breezy as possible. She has been doing role plays with her confidence coach and will be as prepared as she can be,” added the source.

Nine years ago, Aniston ordered Pitt to leave their Beverly Hills home after he admitted that he was in love with Jolie. Arnon Milchan, who produced Mr and Mrs Smith, recalled how he originally cast Pitt and Nicole Kidman as the married spy couple in his film but Brad pulled out of the project due to lack of chemistry between himself and Kidman. However, Pitt was already infatuated with Jolie as immediately after he cast her as the female lead, Brad called him to say he was happy to play Mr to her Mrs. Then came an influx of rumours about Pitt and Jolie which Aniston didn’t believe at first. She started asking around but no one would tell her anything because they were loyal to Pitt. She then asked him point blank, but he denied it.

Pitt and Anniston then went to the Caribbean with their friends on a pre-planned trip to celebrate New Year’s Eve 2005. The pressure of keeping the secret was too much and Pitt confessed that he was in love with Jolie; Aniston was furious and asked him to leave the house. She filed for divorce in March 2005, apparently after seeing pictures of Pitt, Jolie and Maddox on a beach in Kenya, reported the Daily Mail.

It’s been nine years now and Aniston herself is now in love with another man, Justin Theroux. The two got engaged in August 2012. It’s not hard to see the similarities between Aniston and Theroux and Pitt and Jolie. The delay in Aniston’s marriage may have to do with Brangelina’s wedding plans, but it’s definitely an interesting coincidence. It’s also interesting that both couples ended up getting engaged around the same time, and still haven’t tied the knot.

Recent reports suggest that Aniston will be tying the knot on Theroux’s 43rd birthday on August 10.

Published in The Express Tribune, June 11^th, 2014.

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