Brad Pitt has opened up about his split with Jennifer Aniston and insists he enjoys a "deep friendship" with his former wife.

The 43-year-old actor admits he followed his heart when he split with Aniston in 2005 for his then co-star Angelina Jolie, with whom he now has four children.

"Jen and I still maintain a deep friendship and have a lot of life together that isn't erased in any way," Pitt told Details magazine.

Brad Pitt 'still maintains a deep friendship' with ex-wife Jennifer Aniston and says of their seven years together, '(we) have a lot of life together that isn't erased in any way'

Brad opens up in October's issue of Details

Of the media whirlpool that surrounded their separation, he added: "I don't know how better to have handled it.

"My view was, this is no one's business in the end - at least in matters of the heart.

"So you need to protect all involved as much as possible.

"I don't know if that cooled things off or exacerbated them, but it was a thing I felt justly about at the time.

"Again, the thing guiding me then was you don't know how many days you have and you need life to be everything you want it to be."

It was after meeting Jolie on the set of action film Mr &Mrs Smith in 2004, that the rumour mill went into overdrive of a close bond between the two.

At the time Pitt was still married to America's Sweetheart Jennifer Aniston, but by the start of the following year, the couple announced their separation.

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