Biological mother of Jolie's adopted son is heroin addict · 2007-04-04 19:07
Biological mother of Angelina Jolie's adopted son says she simply wants the best for her son.
The News of the World has tracked down tragic heroin addict Pham Thu Dung, who abandoned her baby son in a Vietnamese hospital when he was just two days old.
Now three, tot Pham Quang Sang has been adopted by Tomb Raider star Angelina and renamed Pax Thien Jolie.
Reporters traced frail mum Dung to a deprived Ho Chi Minh City slum and she told them she is convinced her son is now going to a good home.
And even though Dung did not sign adoption papers, she has vowed not to pursue Angelina or movie star boyfriend Brad Pitt for money or for the return of her boy.
Last week it is revealed how drug-addled Dung abandoned her son when she fled hospital just two days after giving birth to him.
His grandparents later signed adoption papers to hand the boy over to Angelina's care. They said of their fears that daughter Dung may hound the Hollywood couple for cash or even demand her son back.
But speaking to NotW reporters in a dingy Ho Chi Minh City cafe, Dung broke down and confessed she would not have been able to bring up her son.
Admitting she had not even recognised his picture in the newspapers, she said she would love to see her son again and tell him she is sorry she had to give him away.
Despite her guilt over abandoning her newborn, Dung says she is happy for him now and is convinced he will be better off living with the movie star couple.
She added sadly that she dreamt that he would one day visit and call her Mother, but that that is impossible.
Dung also revealed how her baby's father, who she would not name, dumped her when she fell pregnant.
According to Dung's pals, she then fled the family home after falling out with her father and earned a living as a hostess and bar girl in a seedy bar.
Dung now lives to support her heroin addiction which, she says, she is desperate to give up.
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