Angelina Jolie shares how the separation of Brad Pitt led to facial paralysis

The actor suffered from Bell's paralysis in 2016.


Angelina Jolie And Brad Pitt The divorce was announced in 2016, but the questions of their split have not been put to rest with just a declaration. Not only had they been one of the The most famous couples in Hollywood For a decade, but the rupture also involved allegations according to which Pitt had physically abused pretty and their son, Maddox Jolie-Pitt , when the family was on a flight a few days earlier. THE Ocean 11 Star was authorized for reprehensible acts in the surveys by the FBI and the Department of Children and Family Services of the County of L.A. (he also denied allegations.) In the years that followed, more details on abuse presumed to theft came out in court documents as Pretty and pitt try to solve Their links with each other involving their cellar, Château Miraval.

That is to say that the split was not friendly and was probably stressful for the whole family. But, in a new interview with WSJ magazine ,, Pretty revealed that tensions In the marriage of the months before the divorce was already high and led him to develop Bell's paralysis.

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My body reacts very strongly to stress, "said the publication of 48 years." My blood sugar goes up and go down. I suddenly had Bell's paralysis six months before my divorce. ""

According to Mayo Clinic, Bell paralysis is "a condition that causes a sudden weakness in the muscles on one side of the face", which "makes half the face seem to compete". The cause of Bell's paralysis is unknown, but "experts think that it is caused by swelling and inflammation of the nerve that controls the muscles on one side of the face. It could be caused by a reaction that occurs after a viral infection ". The effects of the condition generally improve in a few weeks with complete recovery in about six months.

Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt at the premiere of
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Pretty previously mentioned in the grip with Bell paralysis In a 2017 interview with Vanity . At that time, she also suggested that it had to do with stress. "Sometimes the women of families put themselves last until it manifests itself in their own health," she said at the time. She said acupuncture helped her recover. In the interview, she also talked about having more gray hair. "I cannot say if it is menopause or if it is only the year I had," she told the publication. (Jolie had gone to menopause after make your ovaries In 2015 as a preventive measure against cancer, which takes place in his family.)

Pretty also approached Stress being a long -term problem in his life in an interview in 2021 with The Guardian . The publication noted that she did not want to talk about her divorce, but that when they were asked what "the last five years had withdrawn to her," she replied: "I mean, in some ways , it was the last decade. There is a lot I can't say. I think in the end, even if you and some people you love are the only people who know the truth of your life, for what You fight, or what you sacrifice, or what you have suffered, you are at peace with it, regardless of everything that is happening around you. " AE0FCC31AE342FD3A1346EBB1F342FCB

Elsewhere in her WSJ magazine Interview, pretty was vague by speaking of her divorce and the effect she had on her and the six children of Pitt. While speaking of being a lot at home in recent years, she said: "We had to cure. There are things we needed to heal." She also said that she hoped to get away from Los Angeles in the future and spend more time at home than she has in Cambodia. "This is part of what happened after my divorce. I lost the ability to live and travel so freely. I will move when I can", the Eternal Actor said.

Pitt also talked about divorce in the past, but as pretty, was not direct. For example, in an interview in 2019 with NPR, he said , "A break from a family is certainly a revelation of the eyes which, as alone - and I speak again in general - but as it is necessary to understand, I had to understand my own guilt in this, and what can I do Better. Because I don't want to continue like this. "

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