Angelina Jolie doesn’t have many friends, she admits, but can always count on her kids.
She revealed in a new interview with WSJ. Magazine that her six children — Maddox, 22, Pax, 20, Zahara, 18, Shiloh, 17, and 15-year-old twins Knox and Vivienne — are “closest” to her as the family continues to “heal” from the actress’ divorce from Brad Pitt.
“They are the closest people to me and my life, and they’re my close friends,” Jolie told the outlet for a cover story published Tuesday.
“We’re seven very different people, which is our strength,” she continued, adding elsewhere, “We had to heal. There are things we needed to heal from.”
As Jolie and her children move forward from the contentious split, she is also leaning on a tight-knit group of female friends.
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“I don’t really have … a social life,” she confessed, noting that she currently isn’t dating either.
“I realized my closest friends are refugees,” she elaborated, describing her small circle of support. “Maybe four out of six of the women that I am close to are from war and conflict.”
Jolie filed for divorce from Pitt in 2016, shortly after he was accused of abusing the “Lara Croft: Tomb Raider” star and two of their children aboard a private jet.
The 59-year-old actor was allegedly “verbally abusive and physical with his children” while “wasted” on the plane. He has denied the allegations.
The FBI investigated the claims but decided not to pursue criminal charges.
Pitt has not been publicly photographer with his children — whom he shares with Jolie — in seven years.
Last month, his eldest daughter, Zahara, hinted that she was not on good terms with the “Babylon” star during her Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority induction at Spelman College.
Notably, the college student introduced herself as “Zahara Marley Jolie” — leaving off “Pitt” from her name.