While celebrity parents typically advise their kids privately to protect them, Jon Voight decided to do it on a public platform when his estranged daughter, Angelina Jolie, was going through her divorce from Billy Bob Thornton. Voight told Access Hollywood that he wished Jolie would get help for her mental health issues. And to add even more salt to her wounds, he expressed his thoughts on the marriage: “I never had the feeling that they were going to make it because of both of their serious problems, and they’ve both been very public about them, so I never really held out any hope,” (via Entertainment Weekly).
He also said that the “Salt” star had struggled since infancy and blamed himself for not encouraging his daughter to get help sooner. Voight claimed that he urged Jolie to face her mental problems during the “Girl, Interrupted” shoot but she told him to back off because he couldn’t imagine what she was going through. The Hollywood icon also shared why he believed his two kids weren’t too fond of him in a People interview.
“I find it very heartbreaking that my children want to paint a bad portrait of me,” Voight admitted. He added. “I feel that it comes from their inability to let go of years of programmed anger from their mother [the late Marchelin Bertrand] who understandably felt quite hurt when we divorced.” He believed that these feelings of resentment had strengthened after Marchelin Bertrand’s passing.
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