In a rare joint interview, Brad Pitt and Angelina discuss their marriage, their new film By the Sea and her decision to get a double mastectomy and remove her ovaries.
Pitt and Jolie sat down with Tom Brokaw for a Today Show interview, where Jolie revealed the same doctors who worked with her late mother, Marcheline Bertrand, did her ovarian surgery in March.
"We had some of the same nurses, some of the same doctors,'' she said. "So, the doctor that did my ovary surgery was my mother's doctor. And apparently my mother had said to her, 'Promise me you will take Angie's ovaries out.'”
She added they "both had a big cry" and remembers the medical team telling her, "I promised your mother."
Pitt went on to praise his wife’s approach to having an 87 percent risk of ovarian cancer – which her grandmother, mother and aunt died from.
"There was no vanity to my wife's approach,'' he said. "It was mature. 'This is our life and we're gonna make the best of it.' There was a strength in that. It was just another one of those things in life that makes you tighter, and she was doing it for the kids, and she was doing it for her family so we could be together."
Jolie found strength in the fact that her partner of 10 years and husband of one year would make sure she didn’t “feel less of a woman” after the surgeries, “because my husband wasn't gonna let that happen.”
By The Sea, which Jolie also wrote, directed and produced, was inspired by her mother’s death in 2007.