The Real Reason Angelina Jolie Forgave Her Father

Angelina Jolie and Jon Voight co-starred in Lara Croft: Tomb Raider in 2001, but in early 2002, Voight tearfully claimed that his daughter was suffering from "serious emotional problems," telling E! News, "She's been staying away from me because she knows I've been trying to reach her to get help."

Jolie responded with a vague statement about the rift and later dropped "Voight" from her name. "I don't want to make public the reasons for my bad relationship with my father," she told Access Hollywood (via E! News.) "...After all these years, I have determined that it is not healthy for me to be around my father, especially now that I am responsible for my own child." Jolie adopted her first child, Maddox, from Cambodia in 2002. 

Jolie is not one to speak frequently about her personal life in the press, but she did open up a little in an interview with Premiere in 2004. "My father and I don't speak," Jolie said, per E! News. "I don't hold any anger toward him. I don't believe that somebody's family becomes their blood ... When I had the final argument/disappointment with my father — we've had many off and on — I had thought we were breaking ground, and I realized we simply weren't.

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