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Angelina's Heartbreak

Originally posted Thursday February 01, 2007 12:00 PM EST

Although she smiled with her dad in 1991, Jolie has said, "I wasn't close to him growing [up]," and the pair have been estranged for several years. Photo by: Jim Smeal / WireImage

As Jolie's fame skyrocketed, Bertrand – who avoided the media – remained close to her daughter. In L.A., Jolie was a frequent visitor to her mother's apartment in the Raffles L'Ermitage Beverly Hills hotel, and Bertrand took enormous pride in her grandchildren – Maddox, 5, Zahara, 2, and Shiloh, 9 months. Although unable to travel to Namibia for Shiloh's birth, she was ecstatic about the newborn's arrival. "My heart is overflowing with joy," she told PEOPLE. Now, as her family copes with their grief, they are also focused on honoring Bertrand's memory, urging friends to donate to the Women's Cancer Research Institute at Cedars-Sinai and celebrating her legacy as a devoted mother. "Her kids were her life," says Strasberg. "She was complete with her children."

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