Overview
- Jolie told Yahoo Entertainment in a June 25 interview that she has not dated since her 2016 separation from Brad Pitt and that she now feels she needs to “get back to living.”
- She is promoting Alice Winocour’s film Couture, in which she plays a film director diagnosed with breast cancer while working in Paris, a role she says sparked deep personal reflection.
- Jolie said conversations with her daughters helped her see that they want her to be “more than a mom,” and that their perspective is pushing her to reclaim parts of her life beyond parenting.
- The actress linked the film to her own health history, noting her 2013 preventive double mastectomy after testing positive for the BRCA1 gene and criticizing portrayals that erase sexuality and full personhood after a cancer diagnosis.
- Coverage frames her decade of singlehood as shaped by prioritizing her six children and a long, public separation and legal dispute with Pitt that reports say settled at the end of 2024, leaving her now focused on personal freedom and new creative work.