Ange breaks silence on 'bad' marriage to Brad
It’s been 10 months since superstar couple Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt announced the split that shocked the world, and now the star has broken her silence about their troubled marriage.
In a new interview with Vanity Fair, the actress/director opens up about her post-split life with the couples’ six kids.
“It’s just been the hardest time, and we’re just kind of coming up for air,” she tells the publication. “[The new LA house] is a big jump forward for us, and we’re all trying to do our best to heal our family.”
Promoting her latest directorial effort First They Killed My Father, which was shot in Cambodia last year, Ange tells the magazine that it was during the film’s production that cracks started to show in her and Brad’s marriage.
“Things got bad,” she reveals somewhat cryptically. “I didn’t want to use that word…things became ‘difficult.’”
While Brad, 53, was extremely frank in a GQStyle interview earlier this year, in which he admitting to years of drug and alcohol abuse, Angelina is a little more coy about exactly what happened in the lead-up to their split after 12 years together.
Speaking about children Maddox, 15, Pax, 13, Zahara, 12, Shiloh, 11 and nine-year-old twins Knox and Vivienne, their famous mum says: “They’ve been very brave. They were very brave…in times they needed to be.”
With Ange, 42, filing for divorce after an alleged incident on a private plane which saw Brad investigated (and cleared) by authorities for child abuse, the actress won’t go into much detail about the infamous flight.
“We’re all just healing from the events that led to the filing…[the kids are] not healing from divorce,” she says. “They’re healing from some…from life, from things in life.”
As for herself, the star opens up about her diagnosis of Bell’s palsy last year – a virus that affects facial nerves and saw one side of her famous face droop. She credits acupunture with helping her heal, but hints that she’s still struggling with her high-profile divorce.
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“I do not want my children to be worried about me. I think it’s very important to cry in the shower and not in front of them,” she reveals.
“They need to know that everything’s going to be all right even when you’re not sure it is.”
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