Angelina Jolie knows a thing or six dozen about adopting children from other countries.
Therefore, she can sympathize with Madonna, whose efforts to adopt 1-year-old David Banda from Malawi have sparked controversy.
“I have been horrified by the attacks she’s been subjected to,” Jolie tells the French magazine Gala. “All that should count is the happiness of her little David.”
Nevertheless, Jolie whose son Maddox, 5, and Zahara, who turned 2 on Monday, are from Cambodia and Ethiopia, respectively, has some criticism for the singer.
“Madonna knew the situation in Malawi, where (David) was born,” Jolie says. “It’s a country where there is no real legal framework for adoption. Personally, I prefer to stay on the right side of the law. I would never take a child away from a place where adoption is illegal.”
She would, however, steal the huband of Jennifer Aniston. But that’s not really news anymore.
On Friday, Malawian child welfare official Adrina Mchiela said the government is satisfied with the way Madonna has been caring for David.
“We have been monitoring her and so far we see a loving mother in Madonna and David is very fine,” she told Reuters.
In her interview with Gala, Jolie also talks about her relationship with Brad Pitt.
“Don’t go repeating it whatever you do, but, yes I love him. I love him a lot,” she says. “After I met him my life seemed more harmonious.”
We assume that’s how Nicole Richie felt once she discovered vomiting.