Angelina Jolie on the Loss of Her Mother 
By Tom Junod
October 5, 2007



Six days after Daniel Pearl died, Mariane Pearl gave an interview on CNN. The interviewer, after agreeing in advance to refrain from asking if Mariane had seen the video of her husband's beheading, asked if she had seen the video of her husband's beheading. The interview is included in the movie of A Mighty Heart, and it was filmed six days after Angelina Jolie's mother died — six days after photographers swarmed her car to get pictures of the most famous woman in the world crying. Her mother, who died of cancer, was fifty-six years old. "There is no longevity on my mother's side of the family," Angelina says. "My grandmother also died young, so my mother always thought it could happen to her. But she lived to see her grandchildren, lived to see both me and my brother in a nice place. She was a real mother that way. She waited till everyone was okay. Then she closed her eyes."

 For a beautiful woman, Angelina Jolie doesn't necessarily look okay. She looks fragile. She's been getting thinner and thinner ever since her mother died. But she's strong, especially in the role she's chosen to play, and she's in a hurry. The people who travel with her are always amazed by how she bears up when she's barraged by photographers. The people who travel with her are always blinded by the flashbulbs and wonder if something's wrong with her eyes, for she just stares at the photographers as if she's taking them all in, and then moves forward, as if they mean nothing to her at all.  

(Borrowed From: a longer article entitled, "Angelina Jolie Dies for Our Sins"  You can read the full article here:  http://www.esquire.com/women/women-we-love/Jolie0707#ixzz0ONuklHNJ.  Image courtesy theinsider.com.)