Angelina Jolie says she wants to quit ‘shallow’ Hollywood, opens up about divorce from Brad Pitt: ‘Lost my ability to live, travel freely’

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“My body reacts very strongly to stress,” she said. “My blood sugar goes up and down. I suddenly had Bell’s palsy six months before my divorce.” She added that she can’t have ‘a social life’ in Hollywood, because every time she steps out, she attracts attention. Because of this, she intends to spend more time in Cambodia. “I grew up in quite a shallow place. Of all the places in the world, Hollywood is not a healthy place. So you seek authenticity,” she said, adding that if she were starting out now, she wouldn’t be an actor at all. “When I was starting out, it wasn’t as much of an expectation to be as public, to share so much,” she said.

Jolie said that her six children – Maddox, 22, Pax, 20, Zahara, 18, Shiloh, 17, and 15-year-old twins Knox and Vivienne – are her ‘closest friends’, and that they needed to collectively ‘heal’ from what they went through. “We had to heal. There are things we needed to heal from,” adding that her close female friends offered their support. “I realised my closest friends are refugees. Maybe four out of six of the women that I am close to are from war and conflict.”

In the years since her separation from Pitt, Jolie has starred in only four live-action films. She is currently filming a biopic of the opera singer Maria Callas. Pitt, on the other hand, has led several high-profile films since 2016, and has also won an Oscar.