Make Page Six a Preferred Source Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt’s daughter Vivienne revealed she was hospitalized for an eating disorder earlier this year in a heartbreaking confession displayed 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’s so glad she did,” a source exclusively told Page Six.
“It wasn’t easy putting herself out there, 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 battle in a deeply personal statement accompanying her paintings, revealing she had felt “angry, sick, and very alone” during her hospitalization.
“Like many, I have struggled with mental health. I have also struggled with an eating disorder,” Vivienne wrote in a statement titled “The Tulip Field.”
“At the beginning of this year, I was hospitalized for my ED. I was angry, sick, and very alone.”
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However, the teenager revealed that the kindness of other young patients and hospital staff helped her through the difficult experience.
“Eventually, however, the kindness and warmth of the kids and staff at the hospital broke down the walls I had built so high,” she wrote.
“I have never laughed or cried harder, never been more honest or more myself.”
Vivienne also credited the other children at the hospital with teaching her how to find strength during her darkest moments.
“The other kids there taught me how to be strong when you are at your weakest,” she shared.
“It was the worst and best time of my life and I am better for it.”
The emotional revelation was displayed as part of Vivienne’s art exhibition, “The Tulip Field: A Gallery on Patience of Patients,” which ran from Nov. 2 through Nov. 8 at Forager Crafts in Los Angeles.
The teenager had promoted the exhibition on Instagram on Oct. 21, sharing a colorful poster featuring a drawing of a flower holding a telephone.
“Hope to see you there :),” she captioned the post.
Vivienne explained in her statement that she had named the exhibition after the hospital where she received treatment, which she referred to as “The Tulip Field.”
She said the paintings represented memories from her time there, including moments of sadness, laughter, safety and bravery.
“Moments of hopelessness, moments I couldn’t stop laughing, moments of safety, moments of bravery,” she wrote.
The teenager explained that photographs were not taken during her hospitalization, making her artwork a way to preserve the memories she shared with the other patients.
“There are of course no photographs of our time at the 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 journal entries she wrote during her time at the hospital.
One painting, titled “Vitals,” featured a handwritten note dated May 14, 2026, that read, “I feel guilty for needing to be in the hospital this long.”
Another piece depicted two flowers beneath a star and included a handwritten message that read, “We all went to the deck last night.”
A third painting, titled “Room Check,” featured a flower behind a grid-like window, alongside a journal entry describing feelings of bewilderment and sensitivity.
The deeply personal exhibition offered a rare glimpse into Vivienne’s private life, which she had largely kept out of the spotlight 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 another development in the ongoing estrangement between Pitt and several of his six children with Jolie.
Vivienne had previously dropped Pitt from her professional name when she was credited as Vivienne Jolie in the Playbill 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 distanced themselves from the Pitt surname 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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