Angelina Jolie broke down in tears at a film festival as she spoke about her late mother’s battle with cancer.
The Hollywood actress, lost her mom Marcheline Bertrand to breast cancer in 2007 and she later underwent a double mastectomy in 2013 in a bid to avoid being struck down with the disease herself.
Academy Award winner Angelina Jolie had a strong message about hope and living her best life as she reflected on her family’s history of cancer before the world premiere of Couture on .
The Salt and Mr. & Mrs. Smith actor was at the Toronto International Film Festival promoting her film Couture, the story of an American film director navigating the Parisian fashion industry while she is given a serious medical diagnosis and is in the midst of a divorce.
“I’m 50 now. My mother and grandmother by this age were in chemo,” Jolie said, walking down the red carpet with her co-stars. “We all have these things we worry about or people we love. And it’s either going to make us slow down and almost feel we can’t move, take a step, or we’re going to make the most of this life before it’s over.”
Jolie underwent a preventive double mastectomy in 2013 after learning she had inherited a high risk of breast cancer and said she hoped her story would inspire other women fighting the life-threatening disease.
She went through with the operation in part to reassure her six children that she would not die young from cancer, as her own mother did at age 56.
