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# Angelina Jolie's Moving Message About Cancer
- URL: https://celebritykind.ghost.io/angelina-jolie-shares-kind-message-about-cancer-at-tiff/
- Published: 2025-09-12T12:01:31.000Z
- Updated: 2026-09-29T23:52:06.000Z
- Author: Nehal Dalgliesh
- Tags: Kindness, Angelina Jolie, Cancer, #Migrated-1790725714374, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2026-09-29 23:49

Angelina Jolie had a moving message to share about cancer during the premiere of her latest film, *Couture.* 

The Hollywood star, director and refugee advocate who portrays a woman diagnosed with cancer in the movie, recently appeared at a Q&A the Toronto International Film Festival, where an audience member revealed they'd just lost a friend to the disease.

Tearing up, Angelina recalled the loss of her own mother, Marcheline Bertrand, to breast cancer. She said, "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 she said, 'All Anybody ever asks me about is cancer.' So I would say, if you know someone who is going through something, ask them about everything else in their life as well, you know?"

Angelina added, "They're a whole person, and they're still living."

Marcheline was diagnosed with ovarian cancer in 1999 before she passed away from breast cancer in 2007, aged 56.

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In 2013, Angelina penned a powerful essay for the [*New York Times*](https://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/14/opinion/my-medical-choice.html?ref=celebritykind.ghost.io) where she opened up about her own preventive surgeries – a double mastectomy and the removal of her ovaries and Fallopian tubes – in the hope of being around longer for her children:

“We often speak of ‘Mommy’s mommy’ and I find myself trying to explain the illness that took her away from us,” Angelina wrote.

“They have asked if the same could happen to me. I have always told them not to worry, but the truth is I carry a ‘faulty’ gene, BRCA1, which sharply increases my risk of developing breast cancer and ovarian cancer.”

*(Feature Image Credit: Angelina JOlie photo by B. Lenoir/Shutterstock.com)* 

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