Jolie 'nervous' at meeting son's teachers
Hollywood star Angelina Jolie has spoken of her nerves at the prospect of a meeting with staff at her adopted son’s English nursery school.
The actress, who lives in an eight-bedroom converted farmhouse reportedly near Gerrard’s Cross in Buckinghamshire, said that Maddox’s choice of jewellery was discussed at the meeting.
She adopted the boy, now a mohican-sporting three-year-old known as Mad, from a Cambodian orphanage in 2002 but has chosen to school him in the UK.
In an interview with Vanity Fair magazine, she admitted that she was so anxious about going into the nursery that she rearranged three times.
“I remembered being sent to the principal’s office (as a child), so the idea made me nervous,” the 29-year-old actress said.
“He had a helicopter necklace but that’s not okay in England.”
The Tomb Raider star added: “They downplay the individual, which is a problem.”
Speaking of her love for Maddox, Ms Jolie described the moment she first saw him in an orphanage when he was just three months old.
“I held him for the longest time and finally he woke up and stared at me… and I was crying and he smiled.”
She also discussed newspaper reports linking her to the marriage split of her Mr And Mrs Smith co-star Brad Pitt and former Friends actress Jennifer Aniston.
Ms Jolie claimed that a newspaper “moved two pictures together” of her and Pitt to make it look as if they were embracing.
“If you look closely, it looks like my hand is in his shirt,” she said.
After one incorrect report from a British journalist, she said that she had asked her lawyers to “send word to” the couple that she had not provided a shoulder for Pitt to cry on.
“I knew nothing about their marriage,” she added.
But the star, previously married to actors Billy Bob Thornton and Jonny Lee Miller, also said: “I’ve been tied to everybody I’ve ever worked with.”
And she added: “I know if I ever saw a man be great with my child then that would be it for me.
“I actually know that.”
