Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt shocked fans when they announced their divorce in 2016. Now, many years later, the actress has opened up about the reason she decided to break up with the father of her six children.
Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt in 2015. Photo: AFP.
“I broke up for the happiness of my family. It was the right decision” – the movie star “Maleficent” shared with Vogue India.
“I continue to focus on healing my children,” said the mother of six children, including Maddox, Pax, Zahara, Shiloh, and twins Knox and Vivienne.
Actress Angelina Jolie also added: “Some people have taken advantage of my silence and my children have been portrayed as lying about themselves to the media, but I remind them, you know understand the truth and have their own opinions. Really, they are six very brave, very steadfast children.”
American actress Angelina Jolie and her children Pax Thien Jolie-Pitt, Shiloh Nouvel Jolie-Pitt, Vivienne Marcheline Jolie-Pitt, Zahara Marley Jolie-Pitt and Knox Leon Jolie-Pitt attended the actress’s movie premiere at home singing El Capitan in Hollywood September 2019. Photo: AFP.
Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie have been together since 2004 but only officially married in August 2014 in France.
Before sharing with Vogue India, Angelina Jolie once told Harper’s Bazaar magazine that the past few years have caused physical, emotional and mental turmoil for her.
“Intangible things are harder to wrestle with. Life has many turns. Sometimes you get hurt, you see the people you love in pain and you can’t be as free and open as you want. It’s not new or old, but I feel vitality returning to my body” – Angelina Jolie said.
In addition to divorcing actor Brad Pitt, in recent years, the Oscar-winning Hollywood star has also undergone cancer-preventing mastectomy in 2013. In 2015, the actress also had her ovaries and tubes removed. fallopian tubes.