Actress and director Angelina Jolie has finally broken her silence about her ongoing divorce with Brad Pitt in an in-depth interview with BBC World News, which aired yesterday.
The 41-year-old was in Cambodia, accompanied by all her six children, to promote her new directorial effort, the film 'First They Killed My Father'.
When asked about the split, Jolie revealed that it had been a "difficult" time for her family.
"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," she said.
The mother-of-six said she was coping by maintaining a focus on her children: Maddox, 15, Pax, 13, Zahara, 11, Shiloh, 10, and twins Knox and Vivienne, 8.
“Many, many people find themselves in this situation,” she said.
“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.”
The couple met on the set of Mr & Mrs Smith in 2005 and wed in 2014.
Jolie filed for divorce from Pitt last September and sought full custody of their children following an alleged incident on board a private jet as the family returned to Los Angeles from France.
They have since been embroiled in a bitter divorce battle involving the custody of their six children.
The celebrity couple eventually reached an agreement in early January to seal the custody documents as they endeavour to resolve their issues and reach a divorce settlement.
When asked where she sees herself being in five years time, she replied, "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...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. 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."
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