Angelina Jolie has surprised everyone in her last interview by talking
about everything and everyone, removing the past and bringing out her most
intimate emotions
''It was a difficult moment, I didn't recognize
what I had become, I was smaller, like insignificant. I felt a deep and real
sadness, I was hurt. On the other hand, it was interesting to reconnect with
this humility and even this insignificance that I felt.'' These have been
the words that have had the most travel from Angelina Jolie's last
interview, where she has surprised not only by talking about her state of
mind, but also about the real reasons that led her to leave Brad Pitt.
''In addition to all this I had some health problems. All of
these things remind you how lucky you are to be alive. This is yet another
lesson to pass on to my children: the idea of renewal and, above all, a
possible return to the joy of living. I have to rediscover joy '', she adds
showing the personal moment that happens, since she has not yet 100%
overcome the breakup nor do I remember her vitality.
The
actress, who is one of the most valued and respected in the industry, has
opened her heart on many occasions, but it has not been until now when she
has given the real reasons that led her to make this difficult decision,
after twelve years together . Jolie filed for divorce in 2016, "for the
welfare of my children," and she told Vogue India magazine that she, to this
day, knows it was "the right decision." However, the actress acknowledges
that they have not been easy years and that she had to let go of what she
had inside, because there have been too many things she has had to hear
about it: "Some have taken advantage of my silence and the children see lies
about themselves in the media, but I remind them that they know their own
truth. Jolie admits that Maddox, 18, Pax, 16, Zahara, 15, Shiloh, 14, and
twins Knox and Vivienne, 11, fortunately "are six very brave and very strong
young people."
In a recent interview with Le Figaro, Jolie spoke about how it
felt to separate: "At the end of my relationship with Brad, at the beginning
of our separation, it was a difficult moment, in which I no longer
recognized what I had become; how to say it, it was smaller, like
insignificant. I felt a deep and real sadness, I was very hurt. On the other
hand, it was interesting to reconnect with this humility and even that
insignificance that I felt. In the end, this is perhaps the most human. In
addition to all this, I had some health problems. All these things remind
you of how lucky you are to be alive. This is yet another lesson to pass on
to my children: the idea of renewal and, above all, a possible return to
joy. to live. I have to rediscover joy".
Twelve years of love without a happy ending
Angelina and Brad met in 2004 while filming Mr. and Mrs. Smith. After
ten years of courtship, they married in an intimate and simple ceremony,
attended only by their children and closest relatives. Angelina Jolie filed
for divorce just two years later, citing "irreconcilable differences." A
harsh separation that coincided with several interventions, to which she had
to undergo to reduce the chances of breast and ovarian cancer.
Angelina talks about the adoptions of her children
Jolie has explained what it is like to be an adoptive mother, and has
made a beautiful reflection on the process of adopting her children Maddox,
Zahara and Pax: "Adoption and orphanage are positive words in our home."
Maddox came from Cambodia in 2001. The couple later adopted Zahara in
Ethiopia in July 2005 and Pax in March 2007 in Vietnam. After the three
adoptions, Brad and Angelina had their three biological children. "With my
adopted children, I can't talk about pregnancy or birth, but I do talk in
great detail and love about the journey to find them and what it was like to
look into their eyes for the first time," explains the actress. "Adopted
children come with a beautiful mystery of a world meeting yours. When they
are from another race and a foreign land, that mystery, that gift, is
complete. They must never lose touch with their origin. They have roots that
you don't have. Honor them, learn from them. It's the most incredible
journey to share."
Jolie has granted this interview on the occasion of World
Refugee Day and in it she not only wanted to talk about her family, but also
about her humanitarian work in which she is so involved. "My job now
involves fighting alongside my colleagues for rights and protection for
refugees, to resist forced returns, and to push for better learning
opportunities." And she adds the valuable lesson she has learned from her
support of this cause: "I have learned more (from refugees) about family,
resilience, dignity and survival of what I can express.