Angelina Jolie is opening up about the stress and healing that followed her divorce from Brad Pitt. 

In a new interview with WSJ Magazine, the 48-year-old actress admits that she has shifted the way stress impacts her life. The Oscar-winning actress shares that as she has hesitations about her upcoming role as singer Maria Callas in a new film, she notices familiar signs of tension taking over her body.

"My body reacts very strongly to stress," Jolie tells the magazine. "My blood sugar goes up and down. I suddenly had Bell’s palsy six months before my divorce."

Jolie and Pitt announced their split in 2016, and have spent the last seven years in and up and down legal battle. They are parents to six children, Maddox, 22, Zahara, 18, Shiloh, 17, Pax,19, and twins Knox Leon and Vivienne Marcheline, 15.

"We had to heal," Jolie says of the time after the divorce with her children. "There are things we needed to heal from."

Jolie also reveals that she is not dating at the time, and admits that in Los Angeles she "doesn't really have a social life." The people she has the closest connection to are her children.

"They are the closest people to me and my life, and they’re my close friends," she says of her teenage and adult children. "We’re seven very different people, which is our strength."

Outside of her family, the First They Killed My Father star says that she has a close connection with people who were refugees.