Angelina Jolie about the effect it has had on their six children.
The Hollywood star is in Cambodia with the kids promoting her new film and appeared to tear up when asked about her personal life during an interview with BBC News.
'I don’t want to say very much about that, except to say it was a very difficult time and we are a family, and we will always be a family,' she said, visibly emotional.
'It was very difficult,' the actress, 41, added. 'Many people find themselves in this situation. My whole family have all been through a difficult time.'
'My focus is my children, our children,' she explained to the BBC.
'We are and forever will be a family and so that is how I am coping. I am coping with finding a way through to make sure that this somehow makes us stronger and closer,' she said.
'Many people find themselves in this situation. My whole family have all been through a difficult time,' the actress, 41, said about the weeks since she filed for divorce in September
A bitter custody battle initially played out in the media after Jolie filed for divorce from Pitt last September and sought full custody of their children following an alleged incident on board a private jet as the family returned to Los Angeles from France.
But the celebrity couple eventually reached an agreement in early January to seal the custody documents as they endeavor to resolve their issues and reach a divorce settlement.
Asked where she sees herself being in five years time, she replied: 'I would like to be traveling around the world visiting my children, hoping that they’re just happy and doing really interesting things and I imagine in many different parts of the world and I’ll be supporting them.'
She added: 'Everything I do I hope ... I represent the right things to my children and give them the right sense of what they’re capable of and the world as it should be seen. Not through the prism of Hollywood or through a certain kind of life but really take them into the world where they have a really good sense and become rounded people.'
On Saturday, Jolie made her first official appearance in Siem Reap, Cambodia, for the premiere of First They Killed My Father, about life in Cambodia under Pol Pot's Khmer Rouge as seen through the eyes of a child.
She was joined by her children Maddox, 15, Pax, 13, Zahara, 12, Shiloh, 10 and eight-year-old twins Knox and Vivienne.
She acknowledged that in a way she has come full circle since first traveling to Cambodia 17 years ago for Tomb Raider and where she first became a mother with the adoption of her oldest son.
She went on to adopt Zahara from Ethiopia and Pax from Vietnam.
She also gave birth to three biological children with Pitt - Shiloh, who was born in Namibia, and Vivienne and Knox who were born in France.
Oh really after the way u have carried on about brad happy families sailed along time ago love !! Feel sorry for the kids for such a nut job mother
ReplyDeleteI never understood why adopt one or 2 or 3 etc children to give them a better life when she could have helped entire villages of children who could then have grown up with their own family and villagers... I mean she owns a dozen houses but last I heard she was renting a property for $96,000 a month.. how much good could be done with that money alone
ReplyDeleteWell, she is a very good actress! I have no sympathy. She STOLE Jennifer Aniston's man, chewed him up and spat him out. She is a dark Vixen!
ReplyDeleteHas she had work done on her face? She looks... very different... not as good actually. That being said, I don't know how bad she actually feels, that's major acting right there, she blindsided him filing the divorce and then she began a huge smear campaign. She played the whole thing out before the press intentionally. But again, these people make a living pretending. Who know what really happened.
ReplyDeleteThis lady just can't stick to one man. As though she is so perfect than Brad. The reason of divorce is she is fade up with Brad n very soon you can hear that she is in relationship with someone else
ReplyDeleteWell she caused her own sadness and I don't feel sorry for her . If you're heartbroken you should have stayed and fight for love
ReplyDelete