Brad Pitt Announces On 'The Today Show': Be Nice To Jennifer Aniston! Is It Because He's Not?

After slamming his ex-wife, Brad may want to listen to his own advice!

Brad Pitt doesn’t want anyone to say anything mean about Jennifer Aniston. Too bad he already has!

Although he called their marriage “pathetic” and “boring” — a statement he’s since backtracked on — Brad wants everyone to be nicer to Jennifer.

“I don’t want [people] to say anything bad like that about Jen,” Brad tells Matt Lauer in an interview set to air on Today this Thursday reports. “She’s a dear friend of mine.”

“I don’t know what was pieced together or put together. All I know is that my point was, the best thing I’d done as a father is be sure that my kids have a good mother,” Pitt adds. “That’s all I was, or am, trying to say. It has no reference to the past. And I think it’s a shame that I can’t say something nice about Angie without Jen being drug in. You know, she doesn’t deserve it.”

But too bad Brad’s the one bringing Jennifer up at all? Why doesn’t he just keep his mouth shut?

Get the latest on Brad & Jen:

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2. Bonnie Says: After Brad Pitt’s Slam, I’m Now Team Jen!
3. Brad’s New Dig At Jen: Calls His Relationship With Angelina ‘A Greater Collaboration!’