Angelina Jolie's new passion: Eating scorpions, tarantulas

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Angelina Jolies new passion: Eating scorpions, tarantulas

Cambodia - She also talked about her painful split from Brad Pitt.

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Published: Tue 21 Feb 2017, 8:31 AM

Last updated: Tue 21 Feb 2017, 2:47 PM

Angelina Jolie explored her desire for tasting new types of food during her recent trip to Cambodia.
The 41-year-old actress, who visited the Southeast Asian country for the promotion of her new film, 'First They Killed My Father', took some time to eat tarantulas and scorpions.

She, along with her children, gave an exclusive interview to BBC News and explained how to taste the food in Cambodia.
She also talked about her painful split from Brad Pitt, 53, and went on to describe how to prepare some of the insects that are eaten in the country.
The clip was posted at the BBC News Twitter account.
"I think it's always been a part of the diet, the bugs. But I think there is a truth to the survival during the war of course," she was quoted as saying in a Daily Mail report.
"When people were being starved they were able to survive on things like this and they did."
The actress adopted her oldest son Maddox from the Cambodia in 2002.

The actress and activist then went on to explain how you acquire a taste for the native cuisine.
"Crickets, you start with crickets," she told the BBC reporter. "Crickets... and then you kind of move up to tarantulas."
She had her youngest children, twins Vivienne and Knox help her prepare the bugs with Vivienne bravely picking up the spiders and putting them in the bowl, the report added.

They were then frying up a bunch of scorpions and putting them in various bowls.
Daughter Shiloh took a hot spider from the bowl of various insects and chomped down on the crunchy body.

"It's actually really good, the flavour," she explained after testing out her cooking.
Angelina seemed to enjoy her time with her children, but took some time to reflect on her tough year and the 'difficult' breakup of her marriage to Brad Pitt as well as the effect it has had on their six children, the report said.

"I don't want to say very much about that, except to say it was a very difficult time and we are a family, and we will always be a family," she said.
"It was very difficult. Many people find themselves in this situation. My whole family have all been through a difficult time."


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