Angelina and her father, actor Jon Voight, have taken the first steps towards reconciliation.
“We’ve decided not to be public about our relationship. I will say we have spoken … and hadn’t spoken for six and a half years,” Jolie told Vanity Fair in a new interview. “Which is good. Or it needed to happen. We don’t really have a relationship, but we’re in contact. And wish each other well.”
“I think it’s best that, if we try to have any relationship in the future, we do it quietly,” she added.
Voight and Angelina’s mother, Marcheline Bertrand, were divorced in the year following their daughter’s birth. Jolie had a rocky relationship with her father in the years that followed. In 2002, she legally changed her name, dropping Voight and using her middle name, Jolie, as her new last name.
That same year, Voight said in a television interview that he believed his daughter needed help for what he called her severe emotional problems.
In the Vanity Fair interview, Angelina recalled seeing Voight’s film “The Champ” as a child.
“I freaked out,” she said.
She was also asked about her father’s Oscar-winning role in the 1979 film “Coming Home.”
“Actually, I’ve never seen it,” she said. “Because that was when my father left my mom, and the woman who he cheated on her with is in the film.”
Source: ShowBuzz