Posted on 03/02/2025 7:07:38 PM PST by CondoleezzaProtege
“I am trying to think of how much I'm going to share right now,” began Jolie when asked what it meant to win her Best Supporting Actress Academy Award in 2000 for Girl, Interrupted.
She then remembered tuning into the 1979 Academy Awards the year her father, Jon Voight, won Best Actor for Coming Home. Voight separated from Marcheline Bertrand, mother to Jolie and her brother James Haven, in 1976; their divorce was finalized in 1980.
“My mom was home with two little kids,” Jolie explained... “My mom's dream was to be an actor. I believe my mother's mother's dream was to be an actor, which is probably why she took her to the theater in Chicago all the time.”
The Eternals star recalled of Bertrand, who died in 2007 at age 56, telling her the story of watching Voight attend the starry event on television. “She was in her twenties, because she had me when she was very young. She was divorced to a very famous man and she was home with her babies in an apartment watching him win an Oscar with the other woman.”
Voight’s date to the 1979 Oscars, the “other woman,” was actress Stacey Pickren.
“It was kind of just a part of our family history,” Jolie said. “I remember thinking that [Bertrand] was there for me and my brother and that was the choice she made. And how she must have felt on that night always really stuck with me.”
So when it was Jolie’s turn to attend and win at the 2000 Oscar ceremony, she thought of her mother, saying: “To have that moment, to get off that stage and call her and say, ‘It's yours' — and I gave it to her — one of the best moments of my life.”
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There is obviously more to this than what this story covers.
Her train wreck of a life and the damage she has done to her own children are not the fault of her father. I am sorry that happened to her. It has happened to many and worse but they didn’t screw up their own life and their own kids like she did.
Not a fan.
Great story AJ. You should tell it to Jennifer Anniston
I’m not a fan of Angelina, either; but I’m a great fan of her father.
How did she screw up their lives.
A little detail would be good.
A little more than a little would be better :)
She did take them away from their rocking and rolling lives in 3rd world hellholes. That was wrong :)
None of Brad Pitt’s relationships have ever worked out. He’s playing a part in his misfortune.
Entertainment Weekly, 2002:
Headline: Jon Voight says Angelina needs to get help.
The actor says his daughter has “mental problems,” that he knew her marriage to Billy Bob Thornton was doomed, and that he hasn’t seen his grandson...”
She lives in the present, with face turned backward, towards the past. She’d rather keep reminding herself why she ‘hates’ this man or that man (always a man), and why she’ll “never get over” items A, B, and sometimes C.
My mom used to call such people “Happy being unhappy”.
Of course. These pampered spoiled ingrates thrive on obsequious fan worship. The rest of live normal lives.
Spare me the details and go away.
1970s UCLA short film featuring Jolie’s mother Marcheline Bertrand:
https://youtu.be/Rndj2z65yxg?feature=shared
Ouch!!
Truth!
Her mom was beautiful.....Angelina looks so much like her.
Oh..Everyone has challenges...between my parents there were 8 spouses...
truth!
I don’t mean to crow ... but I bought John Voight’s car.
Wow.
There is not enough space or time to list her escapades. If you are interested you may check them out for yourself.
Heroin, bisexuality, gay, many drugs, her relationship with her brother (check out the Oscars kiss from years ago), how she turned all the kids against their father just as her mother did.... Oh yes, many things ...
Voight did rehab with Chabad-Lubavitch Rabbi Shlomo Cunin’s program in California. Popular with but not limited to celebs.
The ‘To Life’ Telethon raises money for such programs, and features a bunch of celebs. It is usually held around Labor Day.
I think young Jolie was more beautiful than her mom. If she had taken care of herself, she’d be beautiful to this day.
Common when sexually violated.
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