Jolie on Refugee Experience: “I just cried constantly”

Actress Angelina Jolie (here) says her work as a humanitarian ambassador for the United Nations at first left her tearful and overwhelmed. “The first two years I just cried constantly,” the actress told Newsweek. “I couldn’t really talk about the situation without being emotional. And I went through a period of just complete lack of hope.” During her February visit to the Oure Cassoni camp on the border between Darfur and Chad, Jolie came across a disturbed 7-year-old boy whose family had tied him to a pole to stop him wandering away or banging himself. The boy had spent 48 hours hiding in the bush after his village was bombed.

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