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Angelina Jolie assures in an interview that she feared for the safety of "her entire family" during her marriage to Brad Pitt

2021-09-05T02:51:03.302Z


In an interview with 'The Guardian', the actress assures that it "took a lot" for her to realize that she had to separate from the father of her children


For years they were one of Hollywood's golden couples and their union gave rise to a common brand,

Brangelina,

but since their divorce was announced in 2016, Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie star in one of the most acrimonious separation processes.

While he asks to review the joint custody agreement, last March, she accused him of child abuse and gender violence.

Now in an interview on

The Guardian Weekend

The 46-year-old actress assures that she feared for the safety of her children, “her entire family,” and lashes out at US justice, which, in her opinion, does not guarantee the rights of children. In the legal process that is open against Pitt for the custody of her children, the judge denied that they testified, as she had requested. “A child in Europe would be more likely to have a voice in court than a child in California. That told me a lot about this country, "he says.

About to release a new film this fall -

Eternals

, from the Marvel factory -, the conversation largely revolves around the artist's humanitarian work as Special Envoy of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees and her commitment to child protection, a role that has led her to write a guide for young people to know their rights protected by the UN. A book, entitled

Know your rights

—As the name of the Clash song that he has tattooed on his back—, which he has seen necessary after having “met too many children who live with the effect of the violation of their rights: displaced people, young victims of rape ... . ”. It is precisely in this line of speech, when Jolie, at one point in the interview, refers to the situation of children's rights in the United States according to his own personal experience, before which the journalist asks him what happened that he did to him fear for the rights of her children, to which she responds that she cannot speak about it because she is still going through the legal process. "Are you talking about your divorce from Brad Pitt and the accusations you have made against him of domestic abuse?", The journalist asks again,to which she tells him that she has sworn to be silent, although she ends up nodding her head.

As a result of the return of the Taliban to power in Afghanistan and the refugee crisis, Jolie has increased, for example, by opening an Instagram account that broke records in its first active hours and in which it gives voice, among others, to a young Afghan woman who questions his future in the country. Focusing so much on serious problems of global scope, he says, sometimes makes it difficult to notice those closest and personalities "because everything else seems smaller." “I am not the type of person who makes decisions like the ones I had to make lightly. It took me a lot to get to that position where I felt that I had to separate myself from the father of my children. " Jolie filed for divorce in November 2016, five days after Pitt, while drunk, allegedly physically abused Maddox, who was then 15 years old. A decision that countstook "for the health of his family." Pitt admitted to having a drinking problem and yelling at one of his sons, but has always denied physically abusing them.

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In a more recent chapter of the legal battle between Jolie and Pitt over their six children, the actor has asked the judge in charge of the case to review the agreement on joint custody of the minors, according to

People

, after it was annulled. when the court dismissed the judge who ruled it at the request of his ex-wife, considering that he was not impartial.

To justify the decision, the court alleged that Judge John Ouderkirk had not made clear his business relationships with Pitt's attorney.

Beyond the turbulent relationship that Jolie and Pitt now have, the actress also remembers in the British newspaper her mother, Marcheline Bertrand, who died of ovarian cancer in 2007. She defines her as a “decent person, who was bothered to see to abused people ”and points out that she is responsible for her interest in human rights, while raising her children“ with art and creativity ”. Bretrand married Jolie's father, Jon Voight at age 21, gave up her acting career to take care of the little ones, and was divorced at 25. “She didn't try to make me conform to her. We were very different as women (...) She saw my true self and fully encouraged it, and taught me to do that with my own children. They are all very different from each other, ”he says.

Asked about her own rights, the actress affirms in the interview that the first time she did not feel respected in her career was at the age of 21 when she worked with Harvey Weinstein in

Playing with the heart.

something that, in his opinion, “is not surprising”, while affirming that women often minimize an assault if they are able to escape.

"If you manage to get out of the room, you think he didn't really do it, but the truth is that he tried and the attempt is already an assault," he says, although he avoids going into details about the incident with Weinstein.

“I remember telling Jonny, my first husband, who was great about it, to spread the word to other guys: 'Don't let the girls go alone with him,” he recalls.

“I never associated or worked with him again.

It was difficult for me when Brad did, ”he says.

Source: elparis

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