“This has always been a special country for me and our family.”
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in the country in 2000 and decided to adopt from there two years later. In January 2018, Jolie spoke to reporters about how it has become such a significant place for her family.People“The children have close ties to the children here, many of them are their best friends. Maddox is happy to be back in his country.”
Maddox is now 20 and a student at Yonsei University in South Korea. When Jolie dropped him off at college in August 2019, she reflected on how she “ugly cried” leaving him at the airport.. “I also, just at some point, had the big [sun]glasses and the amount of times I turned and waved. I do know it was the one moment in my life I think I turned around six times before the airport just...and he sweetly stayed and kept waving, knowing that I was going to keep turning around.