Angelina Jolie has shared some heartbreaking truths about her family life, recalling how her father Jon Voight’s affair ‘changed’ her mother’s life. The Maleficent actress has penned an honest piece for The New York Times in honour of Mother’s Day in the US on 10 May.
Sadly, Angelina’s mother Marcheline Bertrand died in 2007 at the age of 56 following a battle with ovarian cancer. ‘I lost my mother in my thirties,’ Angelina, now 44, writes. ‘When I look back to that time, I can see how much her death changed me.
It was not sudden, but so much shifted inside. Losing a mother’s love and warm, soft embrace is like having someone rip away a protective blanket.’ She added: ‘When my father had an affair, it changed her life.
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