'Losing a mother's love and warm, soft embrace is like having someone rip away a protective blanket,' Angelina Jolie said
Get push notifications with news, features and more."I lost my mother in my thirties," Jolie, 44, wrote. "When I look back to that time, I can see how much her death changed me. It was not sudden, but so much shifted inside. Losing a mother’s love and warm, soft embrace is like having someone rip away a protective blanket., shifted Bertrand's career in acting and forced her to focus on motherhood. "When my father had an affair, it changed her life.
"Her dreams of being an actor faded as she found herself, at the age of 26, raising two children with a famous ex who would cast a long shadow on her life," the Oscar winner added. "After she died, I found a video of her acting in a short film. She was good. It was all possible for her.
“As the ‘W’ faded on my hand, so did that feeling of home and protection," she wrote. "Life has taken many turns. I’ve had my own loss and seen my life take a different direction. And it hurt more than I imagined it ever would." RELATED VIDEO: Angelina Jolie Says Son Maddox, 18, Has 'Grown Up into Such a Good Man' — and 'Got Tattooed''s Parents newsletter"I was not a very stable youth. In fact, I never thought I could be anyone’s mom," said the actress, who is mom to
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