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Brad Pitt wasn't even aware that Melissa Etheridge had spoken out about his partner Angelina Jolie's double mastectomy until last night, but he had a few words to say about her seeming lack of support.

Etheridge recently told The Washington Blade she felt Jolie made "the most fearful choice you can make when confronting anything with cancer ... I wouldn't call it a brave choice. 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."

Pitt hadn't heard Etheridge's remarks until he walked the red carpet at the New York City premiere of World War Z, and he told Us Magazine, "I don't know ... Somebody just said that. Melissa's an old friend of mine. I'm sure we'll talk on the phone. I don't know what it is ... I think it's an individual decision and I found it very empowering instead of scary. We experienced the exact opposite."

Jolie revealed her that she underwent the preventative surgery last month in a New York Times article titled "My Medical Choice." The Oscar winner's mother died of ovarian cancer at the age of 56 in 2007 and her maternal grandmother also had the disease, and Jolie is a carrier of the BRCA-1 gene, which gave her an 87% chance of developing cancer.