Long before shining on the red carpets or chaining humanitarian missions all over the globe, Angelina Jolie was a young woman prey to a deep discomfort. Daughter of the famous actor Jon Voight, Angelina grew up in the spotlight, but behind the image of the “Girl from”the teenager struggled with very real demons … From adolescence, she already mentioned self -destructive trends, regular self -control, eating disordersand a particularly worrying drug relationship.
“I tried all possible drugs”, she admitted in an interview. At 20, she was already flirting with suicidal ideas, and at 22, it was no longer a simple morbid fantasy since she went to the next step by looking for a hitman to end her life. A frightening decision that she told much later with an amazing decline.
Angelina Jolie (Tomb Raider, Wanted: choose your destiny), Ex-wife of Brad Pitt: this day when the actress called on a hitman to assassinate him
In an interview with IMDbAngelina Jolie returns immediately to this episode that freezes blood. “It will seem crazy, but there was a time when I was going to hire someone to kill me”, had she entrusted. A raw, disarming admission, like that thatHe has never feared revealing his cracks. Her reasoning, although disturbing, was part of her in a desire to protect those she loved.
“With suicide, comes all the guilt of people around you thinking that they could have done something”she had explained. In his mind, passing his death for a murder would avoid this feeling in his loved ones. She even went so far as to provide money withdrawals in small sums to remunerate The killer without awakening suspicion. At that time, Angelina Jolie was not yet the planetary star of Tomb Raider or Mr. & Mrs. Smithbut already, his life is a thriller alone.
Angelina Jolie: The man who refused to kill her … and saved her life
Against all expectations, the person to whom Angelina Jolie addresses to complete her macabre project will refuse. “It was decent enough to tell me to think for two months”, She will tell later. And it is precisely this deadline that may save her life. Because in the meantime, something changes. It begins to consider a way out than death. In 2000, she won the Oscar for the best actress in a supporting role to A stolen life.
Angelina Jolie, mother: how the adoption of Maddox, her first child, saved her life
Two years later, she adopted Maddox, her first child. This maternity radically transforms its relationship to life: “Once committed to Maddox, I could never allow myself to be self -destructive again”, she recognized. Her attempted suicide disguised, she now tells it as a necessary step. A memory that she assumes, in what she says about the inner violence she had to cross, but also of the resilience that pushed her to get out.
