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Jolie fixed by broken home
Showbiz
09:30 27 June 2005
Angelina Jolie says coming from a broken home made her the self-sufficient woman she is today.
The sexy brunette's parents, actress Marcheline Bertrand and 'Midnight Cowboy' actor Jon Voight, split when she was just three and the 29-year-old star had infrequent contact with her famous dad after the divorce.
Jolie - who has two failed marriages to actors Jonny Miller and Billy Bob Thornton - believes it made her realise she could never rely on anyone else and gave her an independent outlook on life.
She said: "I don't know if my childhood was any worse that anyone else's. But it is disturbing and sad when you see one parent figure not respecting the other. That probably had a great effect on me wanting to be self-sufficient.
"I was raised feeling that I didn't want the ground to be taken away from me, and so by the age of 14 I was already working. I didn't want to ask for help from anybody, and that extended into my own marriages."
Meanwhile, Jolie insists she is still good friends with second husband Thornton - who recently fathered a daughter with his current girlfriend, Connie Angland.
She said: "Billy and I were right to be together at the time, but we are just friends today and there is a deep bond and love between us."
(c) BANG Media International
The sexy brunette's parents, actress Marcheline Bertrand and 'Midnight Cowboy' actor Jon Voight, split when she was just three and the 29-year-old star had infrequent contact with her famous dad after the divorce.
Jolie - who has two failed marriages to actors Jonny Miller and Billy Bob Thornton - believes it made her realise she could never rely on anyone else and gave her an independent outlook on life.
She said: "I don't know if my childhood was any worse that anyone else's. But it is disturbing and sad when you see one parent figure not respecting the other. That probably had a great effect on me wanting to be self-sufficient.
"I was raised feeling that I didn't want the ground to be taken away from me, and so by the age of 14 I was already working. I didn't want to ask for help from anybody, and that extended into my own marriages."
Meanwhile, Jolie insists she is still good friends with second husband Thornton - who recently fathered a daughter with his current girlfriend, Connie Angland.
She said: "Billy and I were right to be together at the time, but we are just friends today and there is a deep bond and love between us."
(c) BANG Media International
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