Jennifer Aniston and Chelsea Handler: The Explosive Feud Exposed – Shocking Secrets Behind Their Fractured Relationship!

Onetime party pals Jennifer Aniston and Chelsea Handler like to play down talk of a feud, but it can’t be denied they barely speak ever since the Friends alum “soft ghosted” the caustic comic for being too brash – and it was never more than a “showbiz” friendship, at least for Aniston, RadarOnline.com can reveal.

“Chelsea was never a perfect fit with the rest of Jen’s aging, well-off social circle, but if you go back 12 or 15 years, when Chelsea was becoming a household name for her late-night cable show, she and Jen talked all the time and there was real sharing going on between them,” a source told us.

Source: MEGABrad Pitt and Angelina Jolie’s past drama cast a lingering shadow over Aniston and Handler’s friendship, sources say.

They added: “The bottom line is that it was always a show business friendship, nothing more.”

Handler’s bashing of Angelina Jolie initially gained her access into Aniston’s exclusive world, but it backfired.

As RadarOnline.com previously reported, Aniston’s nearly five-year marriage to Brad Pitt ended in 2005 over his affair with Jolie, his leading lady in Mr. & Mrs. Smith – so Aniston, 56, noted 50-year-old Handler’s fierce loyalty

“Their whole relationship was defined by Jen’s anger with and antagonism toward Angelina Jolie,” our insider went on.

They added: “But Jen has moved past that stuff and doesn’t have the time or will to sit around and trash-talk her enemies with Chelsea.

“That doesn’t mean that if Chelsea were in trouble or needed a big favor, Jen wouldn’t be there for her, but when it got to the point that Chelsea was openly commenting on Jolie without a filter, Aniston had to pull back a little.

“Jen values her independence and never wanted anybody to fight battles she could easily fight herself.”