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The Oscar-winning actress has kept out of public view since taking custody of the little boy, but her photograph was on the front pages of several newspapers, which are all state-run in communist-ruled Vietnam.

As for all the attention brought to her new son, Jolie tells the newspaper:

"Photographs and press coverage will make him upset. I'm very worried about that. I would like to say I'm sorry for bringing this into Pax's life."

Jolie collected the child on Thursday amid claims she had been allowed to fast-track the adoption process.

Charities are horrified the actress had taken the three-year-old boy, who has been renamed Pax Thien, just days after lodging adoption papers.

Senior officials said the process had been speeded up, partly due to her fame.

In answering those who have questioned the adoption, Jolie says:

"Everyone would agree that children need to have a family. I have the ability to help children fulfill that desire. Why should I say no?"

Miss Jolie first visited the orphanage last November and filed the papers earlier this month.

Vietnamese adoption minister Vu Duc Long said the process usually took six months.

Miss Jolie applied to become the boy's main carer through an agency in the US.

Her lover Brad Pitt, with whom she has a nine-month-old daughter and two other adopted children, was not named on the papers because an unmarried couple cannot adopt a child under Vietnamese law.

Abandoned at birth, he was called Pham Quang Sang before being renamed by Miss Jolie. Pax is Latin for peace and Thien is Vietnamese for heaven.

Nguyen Van Trung, director of the Tam Binh orphanage, said the child, who was 'shy', had cried when Miss Jolie came to take him away.

"They tried to make friends with him but he cried when he saw them because for him they are strangers."

"Jolie was very moved and tried to comfort the little boy."

The child will need a medical check-up before he can receive a US visa.

It is thought the process will be completed by the weekend.