Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt’s daughter Vivienne revealed she was hospitalized for an eating disorder earlier this year in a heartbreaking confession presented at her Los Angeles art exhibition to help others.
“It took a lot of strength and courage for Vivienne to open up about something so personal, but she is so happy she did,” a source exclusively told Page Six.
“It wasn’t easy coming forward, but if sharing her story helps even one person feel less alone or gives them the courage to reach out and get the help they need, then it was worth it. That’s what matters most to her.”
The 18-year-old opened up about her private health issue in a deeply personal statement accompanying her paintings, revealing that she had felt “angry, sick and very alone” while in hospital.
“Like many, I have struggled with mental health issues. I have also struggled with eating disorders,” Vivienne wrote in a statement titled “The Tulip Field.”
“At the beginning of this year, I was hospitalized for my emergency. I was angry, sick and very alone.”
However, the teenager revealed that the kindness of other young patients and hospital staff helped her through the difficult ordeal.
“But ultimately, the kindness and warmth of the children and hospital staff broke down the walls I had built so high,” she wrote.
“I have never laughed so much or cried so much, I have never been so honest or more myself.”
Vivienne also thanked the other children at the hospital for teaching her to find strength during her darkest times.
“The other kids there taught me how to be strong when you’re at your weakest,” she said.
“It was the worst and best time of my life and I’m better for it.”
This emotional revelation was featured as part of Vivienne’s art exhibition, “The Tulip Field: A Gallery on Patience of Patients,” which ran November 2-8 at Forager Crafts in Los Angeles.
The teenager promoted the exhibition on Instagram on October 21, sharing a colorful poster depicting a drawing of a flower holding a phone.
“Hope to see you there :),” she captioned the post.
Vivienne explained in her statement that she named the exhibition after the hospital where she was treated, which she called “the tulip field.”
She said the paintings depicted memories of her time there, including moments of sadness, laughter, safety and courage.
“Moments of despair, moments where I couldn’t stop laughing, moments of safety, moments of courage,” she wrote.
The teenager explained that no photographs were taken during her hospitalization, making her artwork a way to preserve the memories she shared with other patients.
“There are of course no photographs of our time at Tulip Field, so these are our memories, our purest memories, preserved,” she wrote.
Vivienne also revealed that the titles of her paintings were taken from journals she wrote while in hospital.
One board, titled “Vitals,” featured a handwritten note dated May 14, 2026, which read: “I feel guilty for needing to stay in the hospital for this long.”
Another piece depicted two flowers under a star and included a handwritten message saying: “We all went to the bridge last night. »
A third painting, titled “Room Check,” featured a flower behind a grid-like window, alongside a journal entry describing feelings of puzzlement and sensitivity.
The deeply personal exhibition offered a rare glimpse into Vivienne’s private life, which she had largely kept to herself despite growing up as the daughter of two of Hollywood’s biggest stars.
Reps for Angelina and Vivienne did not immediately respond to Page Six’s requests for comment.
Her revelation came just days after she made headlines for legally dropping Pitt from her last name.
Earlier this month, a court granted Vivienne’s request to change her name, marking a new development in Pitt’s ongoing separation from several of his six children with Jolie.
Vivienne had already dropped Pitt from her professional name when she was credited as Vivienne Jolie in the poster for the Broadway musical “The Outsiders,” which she helped produce alongside her mother.
Jolie and Pitt, who split in 2016 after two years of marriage, also share Maddox, 25, Pax, 22, Zahara, 21, Shiloh, 20, and Vivienne’s twin brother Knox.
Several of the former couple’s children have moved away from the Pitt family name in recent years.
Shiloh legally changed her name in 2024, while Zahara publicly introduced herself as Zahara Marley Jolie when she joined a sorority at Spelman College in 2023.
If you or someone you know is affected by any of the issues raised in this story, call 988 or continue to contact Crisis Text Line by texting ‘NEDA’ to 741741.
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