Angelina Jolie Talks Life After Brad

Angelina Jolie is on the September cover of Vanity Fair. Here's what she had to say in the accompanying interview:

On life post-split:
“It’s just been the hardest time, and we’re just kind of coming up for air. [This house] is a big jump forward for us, and we’re all trying to do our best to heal our family.”

Recalling her first trip to Cambodia:
“I found a people who were so kind and warm and open, and, yes, very complex. You drive around here you can see a lot of people with many things, but not often expressing happiness. You go there, and you see the families come out with their blanket and their picnic to watch a sunset.”

On making the film 'First They Killed My Father:
“[Maddox] was the one who said, ‘It’s time to do it.’ [I knew that Maddox would be deeply involved in the production, that he’d be] standing there watching horrors that his countrymen did to each other. [So] he had to be ready...There wasn’t a person who was working on the movie who didn’t have a personal connection. They weren’t coming to do a job. They were walking in the exodus for the people whom they had lost in their family, and it was out of respect for them that they were going to re-create it . . . It completed something for them.”

On her breakup with Brad in 2016:
“Things got bad. I didn’t want to use that word. . . . Things became ‘difficult.’ ...[Our lifestyle] was not in any way a negative. That was not the problem. That is and will remain one of the wonderful opportunities we are able to give our children . . . They’re six very strong-minded, thoughtful, worldly individuals. I’m very proud of them. They’ve been very brave. They were very brave. In times they needed to be.” We’re all just healing from the events that led to the filing . . . They’re not healing from divorce. They’re healing from some . . . from life, from things in life.”

On Brad Pitt's article in GQ:
 “We care for each other and care about our family, and we are both working towards the same goal. I was very worried about my mother, growing up—a lot. 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. They need to know that everything’s going to be all right even when you’re not sure it is.”

Read the full article at Vanity Fair.

September cover star Angelina Jolie opens up about life after Brad, her struggles with Bell's palsy, putting her family and her health first, and finding catharsis in Cambodia while making her most personal film yet. Photograph by @mertalas and @macpiggott.

A post shared by Vanity Fair (@vanityfair) on Jul 26, 2017 at 9:47am PDT