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Angelina Jolie speaks out on Brad Pitt divorce for first time: ‘It was very difficult but focusing on my children helps me cope’

Speaking out: Angelina Jolie discusses her divorce from Brad Pitt for first time: BBC
Speaking out: Angelina Jolie discusses her divorce from Brad Pitt for first time: BBC

Angelina Jolie has spoken out about her split from Brad Pitt for the first time, saying that it has been ‘difficult’ for the entire family.

The A-list actress gave her first TV interview about her divorce to BBC News as she promoted her new film in Cambodia on Sunday.

“I don’t want to say very much about that, except to say it was a very difficult time and we are a family, and we will always be a family,” she said.

The activist, who ended her 12-year relationship with the actor last year, was visibly emotional as she said that she was ‘coping’.

“It was very difficult. Many people find themselves in this situation. My whole family have all been through a difficult time,” she said.

“My focus is my children, our children. We are and forever will be a family and so that is how I am coping.

“I am coping with finding a way through to make sure that this somehow makes us stronger and closer.”

Jolie adopted son Maddox, 15, from a Cambodian orphanage back in 2002, and she later went on to adopt children Zahara and Pax with Pitt.

The former couple welcomed their first biological child, Shiloh, in 2006 and Jolie gave birth to twins Knox and Vivienne in 2008.

When asked where she would like to be in five years’ time, Jolie said that she 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.”

Jolie and Pitt shocked fans by announcing the end of their two-year marriage in September last year, citing ‘irreconcilable differences’ in divorce papers.

Jolie is currently promoting her new film First They Killed My Father, which she has written and directed, about life in Cambodia under Pol Pot’s Khmer Rouge.