"A fight that got out of hand": Brad Pitt's side of the story

A source close to Brad Pitt has denied claims he hit his son in a mid-air fight.

The Los Angeles County Department of Children and Family Services is investigating after an anonymous person reportedly called police, alleging that Brad has been ‘verbally abusive’ and got ‘physical’ with one of his kids during a flight last week.

And now a source close to the star has come forward, claiming to People magazine that while Brad was ‘drunk’, he did not strike the child in question – believed to be elsest son Maddox, 15.

“There was an argument between him and Angelina," says the source. "There was a parent-child argument which was not handled in the right way and escalated more than it should have.

"He is emphatic that it did not reach the level of physical abuse, that no one was physically harmed.

“He did not hit his child in the face in any way. He did not do that; he is emphatic about that. He put his hands on him, yes, because the confrontation was spiraling out of control."

In the divorce papers she filed on Monday, Angelina requested sole physical custody of Maddox, 15, Pax, 12, Zahara, 11, Shiloh, 10, and twins Knox and Vivienne, 8 – a move Brad is expected to contest.

And the source alleges that the claims are being used to weaken the actor’s case.

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"They have taken the overall smallest kernel of truth – that a fight got out of hand and reached a regrettable peak, and that as a result DCFS is looking into it – and they are manipulating it to best suit their attempts to gain custody,” adds the source.

According to the report, Brad hasn’t spoken to Ange since she filed for divorce, and hasn’t seen his kids for several days.

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