Angelina Jolie How We're Coping

The star finally opens up about her split with Brad and new family life.

- Kate Halfpenny

Sitting cross-legged in an outside yoga sala in Cambodia, Angelina Jolie— dressed down in a singlet and loose pants—pauses when asked by BBC World News reporter Yalda Hakim if she would like to finally break her five-month silence and “say something” about the “incident” that led to the end of her marriage to Brad Pitt. The star sighs and seems to gather herself. “I don’t want to say very much about that except to say that it was a very difficult time and we are a family. And we’ll always be a family,” she says. “And we’ll get through this time and hopefully be a stronger family for it.”

That family—Jolie and her children with Pitt, Maddox, 15, Pax, 13, Zahara, 12, Shiloh, 10, and twins Vivienne and Knox, 8—seemed to have the strength thing nailed on Feb. 18, a day before the BBC interview aired and drew global headlines for Jolie’s revelations about how she is “coping” as a single mother, and how her kids’ lives have changed. With their mother glamorous in black lace, the brood escorted her to the premiere in Siem Reap, Cambodia, of her latest directorial effort, genocide drama First They Killed My Father. “We finally made it,” said Maddox, who worked on production of the film in the country of his birth, taking the microphone. “It’s a great honour to present this film to all of you, and to stand by my mother and my family.”