Angelina Jolie started crying when asked about the death of her mother in a recent television interview.

Marcheline Bertrand died in January after a long battle with cancer and she told interview Ann Curry: “This has been a heavy year in losing my mom and having a fourth child.”

“I’m very aware of time and of memories and of doing and enjoying life, not just doing the right thing and being a useful person, which I certainly want to be and believe I am.”

“I want to be a great mom like my mom was. And I want to also do the things that I love. So I’m at a strange place in my life. That happens when you lose a parent, where you drop into a different kind of serious. Yet at the same time, you want to enjoy and laugh as much as possible everyday.”

“I’m holding onto my family really tight at this moment because of that and trying to be as good a woman as I can be in my life.”

As tears fell down her cheeks, she added: “Dammit. You got me crying. [But] That’s alright. It’s part of life. … I lost my mom. It’s a natural thing for a child to lose a parent. I lost my mom too young, but it happened. And I’m happy she’s out of pain, because I love her and she’s my friend.”