Brad Pitt’s mother, Jane Etta Pitt, has died as her heartbroken issued a lengthy statement on social media this week

Brad Pitt’s mother, Jane Etta Pitt, has died aged 84. The news about the former school counsellor was announced by her granddaughter, Sydney, who took to her Instagram page to share a carousel of throwback photos of Jane before reminiscing about her childhood with her ‘grammy’.

She wrote: “My sweet Grammy, Jane Etta, we were not ready for you to go yet but knowing you are finally free to sing, dance, and paint again makes it a tad easier. If you knew Grammy, you knew she had the biggest heart. She cared deeply for everyone and everything, no questions asked.

“She taught me how to paint, how to be strong, how to lead with kindness, to love Jesus through everything, and to find joy in the smallest things. She made up the silliest games just to make us laugh, and she believed in fairness, in putting others first, and doing good simply because it was the right thing to do.”

Brad Pitt’s mother has died aged 84 ( 
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The heartbroken granddaughter added: “Every year before school, she gave each of us grandkids a “special day” which was a whole day to do whatever we wanted (and Papa had to go along with it… though I know he secretly loved it too).

“Mine usually started with banana splits for breakfast, hours of playing Trouble, a craft project obvi, riding every ride together at Silver Dollar City like the badass she was, dinner at Olive Garden with Papa, mini golf where she’d make a V with her feet to help me aim… (and somehow still beat me) and ending the night watching Paulie until we feel asleep.”

Her heartbroken granddaughter announced the news
Sydney said Jane had no problem keeping up with all her 14 grandchildren ‘without missing a beat’, before adding there wasn’t a ‘limit’ to the love she gave.

“I don’t know how we move forward without her. But I know she’s still here in every brushstroke, every kind gesture, every hummingbird. She was love in its purest form,” she added. “We were truly blessed to have her to love on growing up and I know she lives on through each of us.”

Sydney included snaps of Jane lounging in a lake with a drink, posing with family on her 80th birthday, relaxing on a private jet and hugging her husband William. Sydney also added snaps of Jane’s charity work as well as holiday memories.

Jane’s granddaughter added the lake snap onto her Instagram stories and wrote: “The sweetest guardian angel around,” along with a white heart emoji. The late mother of Brad raised the actor his his siblings in Shawnee, Oklahoma and Springfield, Missouri, with her husband William.

Brad previously opened up about growing up in Springfield and called it a rural area “surrounded by cornfields”.

Speaking to GQ in 2017, he said: “Ten minutes outside of town, you start getting into forests and rivers and the Ozark Mountains.”

Jane and Will made several red carpet appearances with her famous son and, in 2012, joined Brad at the Oscars.