SA unang pagkakataon, nagsalita na si Angelina Jolie tungkol sa nakakagulat na pakikipaghiwalay at pagsasampa niya ng diborsiyo laban kay Brad Pitt.

Nakapanayam ang aktres at direktor ni Yalda Hakim ng BBC World News sa Cambodia na inilabas nitong Linggo. Nang tanungin tungkol sa hiwalayan, ibinunyag ni Angelina na naging mahirap na panahon ito para sa kanyang pamilya.

“I don’t want to say very much about that, except to say it was a very difficult time and… and we are a family and we will always be a family, and we will get through this time and hopefully be a stronger family for it,” aniya.

Nasa Cambodia si Angelina, 41, para i-promote ang kanyang bagong pelikulang First They Killed My Father na idinirehe niya. Sinabi ng aktres na kinakaya niya ito sa pamamagitan ng pagtutuon ng atensiyon sa kanyang mga anak na sina Maddox, 15; Pax, 13; Zahara, 11; Shiloh, 10; at kambal na sina Knox at Vivienne, 8.

“Many, many people find themselves in this situation,” aniya. “My whole, my family… we’ve all being through a difficult time. My focus is my children, our children… and my focus is finding this way through. We are and forever will be a family. I am coping with finding a way through to make sure that this somehow makes us stronger and closer.”

Simula nang maghain siya ng diborsiyo laban kay Pitt, 53, ibinunyag ni Jolie na sinusubukan ng kanyang mga anak at mga alagang hayop na mamuhay pa rin nang normal.

“It’s been a difficult few months. Right now, I’m going through a moment when just everybody’s in my room,” natawang sabi niya. “Two dogs, two hamsters and two children at the moment. It’s wonderful. But, usually, I just wake up trying to figure out who’s going to get dog out, who’s going to start the pancakes and did anybody brush their teeth.”

Nang tanungin kung ano ang nakikita niya sa kanyang sarili pagkaraan ng limang taon, napagtanto ni Angelina na mapupuno ang kanyang tahanan ng mga teenager.

“In five years’ time I would like to be traveling around the world visiting my children, hoping that they’re just happy and doing really interesting things, and I imagine in many different parts of the world, and I’ll be supporting them.”

“Everything I do I hope is that I represent something, and I represent the right things to my children, and give them the right sense of what they’re capable of, and the world as it should be seen,” dagdag niya. “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.” (People.com)