Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt split up in 2016 breaking millions of hearts. But the couple has maintained staunch silence over the reason behind breakup. On Sunday, the actress while promoting her documentary ‘First they Killed My Father‘ speaking to BBC spoke openly about her split from her husband Brad Pitt.
The documentary will be released on Netflix by the end of this year, covers the issues about the Khmer Rouge genocide in Cambodia and the issues of family and loss. While speaking about this the interviewer also mentioned that these two are the same issues in Jolie’s life. Speaking about this Jolie said, “I don’t want to say very much about that except to say that it was a very difficult time,” visibly shaken and upset the actress added “and we are a family and will always be a family. And we will get through this time and hopefully be a stronger family for it.”
When asked about how the actress is coping Angelina the humanitarian said, “Many, many people find themselves in [these] situations.” She added, “My whole family, we’ve all been through a difficult time. My focus is my children, our children, and my focus is finding this way through. And as I said, we are and forever will be a family. And so that is how I’m coping with finding a way through, to make sure this somehow makes us stronger and closer.”
She also said that she wants to put her family ahead and that she dreams of supporting them in the future in the fields in which they are interested. She said, “Everything I do, I hope that I represent something and represent the right things to my children, and give them the right sense of what they are 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.”
Angelina Jolie added that for now all she wants to do is wake up and get through the day. The actress also added that it was difficult the first few months but that now she is just taking a day at a time. The actress was accompanied by her six children to the premiere and she looked radiant in a backless fuschia dress. The actress was honored by the Cambodian King, Norodom Sihamoni in Cambodia where the movie premiered. Incidentally, the actress’s first son Maddox was also born in Cambodia 15 years ago.
