Angelina Jolie emotionally recalls her mom watching as Jon Voight attended Oscars with 'the other woman'

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“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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you’re right! well it does seem to be something she treasures, so maybe marriage is still in the cards for her (and for all of the others mentioned as well.) I do believe God can work miracles and restore what’s been broken - so if not someone new, then maybe Brad but from a healed place this time - who knows.

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correction:

Pitt…Currently with a younger Hispanic actress.

Jewelry designer* not actress.

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Billy Bob Thornton said he did not feel “good enough” for Jolie and that he didn’t share her philanthropic, globe trotting fervor which she developed while married to him.

He's a manly man. She wasn't good enough for him. If there is a mismatch in a marriage, the wife also has to bend. I don't see BillyBob as an insecure tyrant, but rather as the kind of man most married men are--the ones who go along to get along with their wife. But I don't see her as the type of woman who can soften to accommodate a partner.