The adoption agency that Angelina Jolie went through to adopt her Ethiopian daughter Zahara is backing up Jolie rejecting reports that her parents want her back.
There were reports earlier this week that Zahara's relatives wanted her to return to Ethiopia.
"The court in Addis Ababa approved the adoption after studying the document her grandmother wrote … saying her daughter, the mother of Zahara, had died and she was too poor to bring her up," Tsegaye Berhe, the head of Wide Horizons for Children, which conducted the adoption, told said.
"The grandmother brought three witnesses to court who testified that Zahara's mother had died and that her father was unknown … The court also investigated the social status of Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt before approving the adoption."
"The controversy is media hype by unethical journalists exploiting the poverty of the grandmother," he said.
People need to just lay off this adoption controversy. She's giving Zahara a better life than she would have ever had.
