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Angelina opens up about life after Brad
Angelina Jolie is adjusting to the domestic growing pains of life as a single mother of six children.
“I’ve been trying for nine months to be really good at just being a homemaker and picking up dog poop and cleaning dishes and reading bedtime stories,” she said in an interview with Vanity Fair, in which she discussed her split from actor Brad Pitt. “And I’m getting better at all three.”
The actress’s marriage to Pitt began suffering in the summer of 2016 while she was in postproduction on her fifth directorial effort, “First They Killed My Father,” which hits Netflix this month.
“Things got bad,” Jolie said. “I didn’t want to use that word . ... Things became ‘difficult.’ ”
She became slightly defensive at the mention of the family’s globe-trotting lifestyle, which reportedly had been grating on Pitt.
“(Our lifestyle) was not in any way a negative,” she said. “That was not the problem. That is and will remain one of the wonderful opportunities we are able to give our children.”
After 12 years together and a few years of marriage, Jolie filed for divorce from Pitt in September 2016. While her ex was couch-surfing, she and the kids spent nine months in a rental property before settling into a Los Angeles mansion.
“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.”