Brad Pitt plans to give Melissa Etheridge a call following her negative comments regarding Angelina Jolie’s decision to have a preventative double mastectomy. Pitt was asked about Etheridge calling Jolie’s decision “fearful” and “not brave” at the NYC World War Z premiere on Monday.
“Oh, I didn’t know, I haven’t seen her…Melissa is an old friend of mine, so I’ll have to give her a call,” he told reporters.
After Jolie revealed her mastectomy last month, Pitt spoke out and praised her for making a “heroic” decision. "Having witnessed this decision firsthand, I find Angie's choice, as well as many others like her, absolutely heroic,” he said.
In a new interview with the Washington Blade, Etheridge said it was a “fearful chose.” “I wouldn’t call it the brave choice. I actually think it’s the most fearful choice you can make when confronting anything with cancer,” she said.
Etheridge, who battled breast cancer in 2004, said she has the same faulty BRCA1 gene that Jolie has. The gene increases women’s risk of developing ovarian and breast cancer. “I have that gene mutation too and it’s not something I would believe in for myself,” she said of preventative surgery.
“My belief is that cancer comes from inside you and so much of it has to do with the environment of your body. It’s the stress that will turn that gene on or not,” she explained. “Plenty of people have the gene mutation and everything but it never comes to cancer so I would say to anybody faced with that, that choice is way down the line on the spectrum of what you can do and to really consider the advancements we’ve made in things like nutrition and stress levels. I’ve been cancer free for nine years now and looking back, I completely understand why I got cancer. There was so much acidity in everything. I really encourage people to go a lot longer and further before coming to that conclusion.”
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