Any young woman will know that a relationship with a father can be complicated even in the most ideal of circumstances. So when your relationship with your father is being influenced by fame, fortune, divorce, and health issues, it will undoubtedly be even more trying. Jon Voight and his daughter Angelina Jolie have not always seen eye to eye, and they were estranged for a period because of this.
Angelina was only two years old when her mother, Marcheline Bertrand, and her father separated. Her mother then raised Jolie and her brother on her own with some financial support from Voight.
Despite the separation, the family remained close. When Bertrand died of cancer in , Jolie credited her parenting style to her mother, saying she taught her many things about parenting her children. Jolie addressed these rumors saying that she is fascinated that people thought she was obsessed with death and said that she might speak about death more often than the average person, but only because she loved life more than those people.
However, Jolie later admitted that she had used self-harming to relieve her thoughts and feelings of depression. This further contributed to people's perception that she was troublesome, which was not helped by her father's allegations against her. Jolie and Voight remained close until when Voight began saying things about Jolie that she did not agree with. The father and daughter had a lot to say but ultimately stopped speaking.
At the time of the allegations made by Voight, Jolie was in the process of adopting her son, Maddox. He cheated on her mother. She said he had a thing for a Hollywood starlet.
Angelina had a difficult time growing up with what was going on. She has a lot of hostility toward her dad. Voight denies abuse of any kind, telling Express , "In all truth I tried to give them and their mother continuous love and support It comes from their inability to let go of years of programmed anger from their mother, who understandably felt quite hurt when we divorced.
God knows for years I've tried to mend this relationship. I continuously send them my heart and love and I'm always available to them for whatever they may need from me. Jolie's childhood nanny, Cis Rundle, told the National Enquirer that Voight wasn't just an absentee father, but that he also didn't provide for his two children. Rundle says Bertrand somehow managed to make ends meet—with her daughter's help. Voight denies this, insisting he always gave the family "large sums of money.
After Voight and Bertrand divorced, Bertrand found love with another Hollywood heavyweight who acted as a paternal figure for Jolie and Haven, Rundle revealed to the National Enquirer. However, Andrew Morton's biography Angelina claims that Bertrand's relationship with Pacino was a little more complicated: she initially chose Voight over Pacino because Voight was more successful at the time.
When Voight split, she allegedly pursued Pacino again, but he'd already moved on. Psychologists who hadn't treated Jolie told Morton in Angelina via the Daily Beast and the Daily Mail that her alleged drug abuse including hard substances like heroin and cocaine , bouts of depression, suicidal thoughts, self-mutilation, kissing her brother on the lips at the Oscars and becoming sexually active at an early age as well as her string of failed marriages may be likely due to her abandonment issues from when Voight left the family.
Voight told the Independent that Jolie and Haven joined him at the Oscars in , where he was nominated for his role as a bank robber in Runaway Train. And my daughter to my left put her hand on my arm and said, 'Don't worry Dad, you're wonderful!
As adults, Voight returned the favor: when Jolie starred in Lara Croft: Tomb Raider , he had a small role as Croft's father and the pair had a brief reunion afterward for about a year.
She had the power to do that. And it resurrected his career. Marcheline wanted her to do it. In March , before Jolie and then-husband Billy Bob Thornton announced they were adopting son Maddox from Cambodia, Voight allegedly told the whole world.
News reports that Voight spilled the beans at a pre-Oscar party about how excited he was to be a grandfather and that the adoption was happening, which took the couple by surprise, because they hadn't wanted to announce the news until Cambodian and United States officials finalized the adoption.
Jolie and Voight's relationship took a turn for the worse in , when Voight gave a now-infamous interview to Access Hollywood via Entertainment Weekly. During the interview, he alleged that Jolie had "mental problems" dating back to childhood and urged her fans and handlers to make sure that she got help in the wake of her split from Billy Bob Thornton.
He also alleged that he had not been allowed to see Jolie's adopted son, Maddox. The interview obviously struck a nerve with Jolie, who said in a statement, "I don't want to make public the reasons for my bad relationship with my father.
I will only say that like every child, Jamie [Haven] and I would have loved to have had a warm and loving relationship with our dad. After all these years, I have determined that it is not healthy for me to be around my father, especially now that I am responsible for my own child. Entertainment Weekly reported that Jolie had legally dropped "Voight" as her legal last name on Sept.
Incidentally, the petition was actually filed on July 3. At the time, she also requested that her son's legal name be changed to Maddox Chivan Thornton Jolie. Voight and Bertrand almost named Jolie "Shiloh Baptist Voight" after a truck they'd been stuck driving behind in traffic.
Bertrand allegedly put the kibosh on the name despite Voight's insistence, claiming it sounded "too Hebrew. Despite Jolie's sweet gesture, the bond between Jolie and Voight did not improve. Brad Pitt insisted that Angelina Jolie makes peace with her father after the death of her mother Marcheline Bertrand. He allegedly even asked her to do so for the sake of her children if not herself. After the couple divorced, Voight stated to the press saying that something serious might've happened for Jolie to take such a huge step.
Voight stayed in touch with Pitt even after the divorce, and this managed to piss Jolie off. It has been reported that Jolie is in talking terms with her father, but she isn't sharing a lot with him. Now follow your favourite television celebs and telly updates. Republic World is your one-stop destination for trending Bollywood news. Tune in today to stay updated with all the latest news and headlines from the world of entertainment. The Debate.
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