Angelina Jolie is ready to move on with her life, quite literally. The actress expressed a strong desire to leave Hollywood and start fresh somewhere else — at least, after her ongoing divorce from Brad Pitt is final. After 12 years together and two years married, Angelina filed for divorce from Brad in 2016, citing “irreconcilable differences.” Shortly after filing for divorce, more details emerged about why she did so, going into specific detail about the alleged abuse she and her children suffered at the hands of Brad. She specifically detailed an incident on a plane where she claimed Brad abused her and their eldest son Maddox.
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Angelina feels that Hollywood is too 'shallow' for her to continue living there.
In a new interview with The Wall Street Journal, Angelina revealed that once the divorce is finalized, she will be fully done with Los Angeles. As the child of celebrities — her parents are John Voight and Marcheline Bertrand — she has spent her entire life in Hollywood, calling the industry and the city “shallow.” Now, she’s in search of “authenticity.”
She is searching for something new.
“Because I grew up around Hollywood, I was never very impressed with it. I never bought into it as significant or important,” she explained. “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.”
Angelina is already prepared to move when the time is right.
Angelina admitted that she doesn’t have much of a social life in Los Angeles and has found her crowd elsewhere.
“I realized my closest friends are refugees,” she revealed. “Maybe four out of six of the women that I am close to are from war and conflict.”
During her divorce, Angelina said that she “lost the ability to live and travel as freely,” so it makes sense that she’s ready to pack up and go as soon as she can.
There were points where she feared for her children's safety.
In 2021, Angelina told The Guardian that she feared for her children’s safety during her marriage.
“I’m not the kind of person who makes decisions like the decisions I had to make lightly. It took a lot for me to be in a position where I felt I had to separate from the father of my children,” she said. She also admitted that her divorce from Brad was traumatic, leaving her feeling “broken.”
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Healing is the most important thing for Angelina right now.
“It’s not that I want to talk about anything, really, because I just want my family to heal,” she added. “And I want everyone to move forward — all of us, including their dad. I want us to heal and be peaceful. We’ll always be a family.”
If you or someone you know has been the victim of domestic abuse, you can find help and support at DVIS.org, the National Domestic Abuse Hotline at 1-800-799-7233, or by contacting your local women’s shelter domesticshelters.org.
