Brad Pitt doesn’t want to give up on his relationship with his son Maddox Jolie-Pitt.

The father and son have been estranged ever since a 2016 altercation that led to Angelina Jolie and the Once Upon a Time in Hollywood star’s bombshell split.

“There was a parent-child argument which was not handled in the right way and escalated more than it should have,” a source said at the time.

“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.”

Despite their personal issues, a source spilled that Brad is eager to mend his broken relationship with his oldest son.

The source added that the Troy actor’s goal is to “have his kids seem him and Angie get along as a family” some day.

As OK! previously reported, the rest of Brad’s kids — Pax, Zahara, Shiloh and twins Vivienne and Knox — are “fine” with him after the tumultuous split, except for Maddox — something that continues to bother the father-of-six.