Angelina Jolie has reportedly been preparing her kids for her eventual death.

“I raise my kids almost preparing them for my absence and not as much preparing to be a grandmother,” the Oscar-winning actor told Variety. “That’s what happens when you consider death as a reality.”

In her latest movie, “Couture,” Jolie plays a filmmaker who receives a breast cancer diagnosis. It’s a subject that’s familiar to her. In 2013, she underwent a preventive double mastectomy.

In a New York Times op-ed, Jolie explained that she had her breasts removed because she has a mutated BRCA1 gene that’s known to raise a woman’s risk of breast and ovarian cancers. Her mother, Marcheline Bertrand, died of breast and ovarian cancer at 56.

“She held out long enough to meet the first of her grandchildren and to hold them in her arms,” Jolie wrote. “But my other children will never have the chance to know her and experience how loving and gracious she was.”

Jolie told Variety that she raised her kids to be prepared for her absence because she’s “never lived feeling like I’m going to have a long life.”

“It’s very sobering in realizing – like the [doctor] says in the film — we’re all going to die, we’re all not here forever,” Jolie said. “I think having lost my mom young and never met my grandmother, I have never lived feeling like I’m going to have a long life.”

“I’m already past the age when my mother was diagnosed,” Jolie added. “I may struggle from almost feeling like I can’t live in the moment because I feel like I have to push and rush because time’s running out.”

Now that they’re older, Jolie’s children have been encouraging her to go out and embrace life.

“My kids are almost all 18, so now they want to see me traveling the world, they want me to get out and do things,” Jolie said. “They know me more than anybody, and they still like me, which says a lot. I think they’re very encouraging of me kind of getting back to aspects of myself that maybe I hadn’t felt as free to do.”

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