Angelina Jolie Tears Up Over Late Mother’s Cancer Battle In Emotional Q&A At TIFF

Angelina Jolie was moved to tears while reflecting on her late mother, Marcheline Bertrand, during the world premiere of her latest film “Couture” at the Toronto International Film Festival. Following the screening, the Oscar winner, whose mother passed at 56 after a battle with cancer, became overcome with emotion after she was asked for advice by someone who recently lost a friend to the disease. “I’m very sorry for your loss. I think I will say that, one thing I remember my mother saying when she had cancer — she said to me once, we had had a dinner and people were asking her how she was feeling and what she was doing, and she said, ‘All anybody ever asks me about is cancer,'” the actress replied, according to social media video from Entertainment Weekly. She then encouraged people to ask those affected “about everything else.” “They’re a whole person, and they’re still living,” she added. In the upcoming drama, Jolie, who carries the BRCA1 gene and underwent a preventive double mastectomy in 2013, plays a filmmaker who discovers she has cancer.