Angelina Jolie: Desperate Damage Control Over Divorce

Angelina Jolie is facing the press while promoting her new movie — and desperately trying to make nice with Brad Pitt after the start of their brutal divorce. The frail actress sounded ready to reconcile after Brad survived charges of child abuse when the marriage began to fall apart. Now, said Angelina: "We are a family, and we will always be a family, and we will get through this time and hopefully be a stronger family for it." But insiders tell The National ENQUIRER that Angelina is still making plans to keep their family to herself!

"I am coping with finding a way through to make sure that this somehow makes us stronger and closer," said Angelina about her divorce. Secretly, however, Angelina is dreaming of fleeing the country with her kids! The ENQUIRER can exclusively reveal Angie, 41, is in secret negotiations to purchase a massive $12.5 million Tudor-style mansion in Richmond, west of London! “Angie has been making moves to buy the estate because she knows it can work for her and the children, especially as it’s close to central London and her friends,” said neighbor Carole Walker.

The ENQUIRER previously reported on Angelina's dream of abandoning Hollywood to become "the new Princess Diana," as described by biographer Ian Halperin. The longtime insider said that Angelina had originally offered to take the children to live in Britain — "increasingly, the base for her charitable and political work" — while leaving Brad in L.A. to enjoy an open marriage. Instead, she ended up in a sordid divorce that left Hollywood siding with Brad!

Brad's working to stay clean, too. After exposing the bizarre double-life that helped end his marriage, The ENQUIRER found Brad going into rehab — and staying straight on the set. An on-set spy even caught Brad blowing a fuse during a recent film shoot after crew members in a parking lot “lit up a doobie and were passing it around.” The insider added: “Brad later apologized to the guys for getting upset about the pot, but also said: ‘You don’t know the sh-tstorm I’m going through. I’m walking the straight and narrow!’”