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Jon Voight at Premiere of Things We Lost in the Fire

“I find it very heartbreaking that my children want to paint a bad guy portrait of me. I feel it comes from their inability to let go of years of programmed anger from their mother, who understandably felt quite hurt when we divorced. In all truth, I tried to give him and their mother continuous love and support and large sums of money. God knows, for years I’ve tried to mend this relationship. Perhaps the trauma of their mother’s passing has made it worse.”

Angelina Jolie’s estranged father, Jon Voight, in a statement, after son James Haven told Marie Claire that “he put my mom through years of mental abuse.”

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  • Agreed, that poor dead woman spent years trying to get back child support from him. He held money over all of their heads, no wonder they can’t stand him.

  • I think it’s more important for him to be on camera whining about his daughter, than it is for him to actually say “I’m sorry” and begin to heal his relationship with Angelina and James Haven. I cringe everytime I see him “pleading” for his daughter to call him and how much he wants to see “his” grandchildren. That’s some sad shit he’s doing.

  • James Haven has sold to the press, and said traumatised him terribly, was the fact that he and Angelina didn’t get cars in High School!! I would say that shows what a vapid, spoiled, out of touch and immature person he is. If he thinks that is mental abuse, then he seriously needs to get in touch with reality! I thought OMG this is really stupid. I could not BELIEVE that BOZO!
    She had made up w/ her dad, they even filmed tomb raider and during that time she adoped the oldest kid. He (her father)announce that he was a pround grandfather and from there she got upset w/ him. So, I really believe that those 2 are Fucked up.

  • I really believe that those two are fucked up also. The apple doesn’t fall far from the tree. That is not the mental abuse that James and Angelina were talking about. There’s more to this story than cars in high school. Keep it real.

  • I believe him. I think Angelina and her brother werer spoiled brats. He has already admitted his wrongs and apologized even in public.
    Her mom should have tried to keep the kids having a good relationship with their father instead of trying to keep them to herself.
    I also read the interview with James Haven, and how the poor kids didn’t have the expensive cars in Hollywood made them feel so inferior. Give me a break.
    Of course he paid child support, anyone thinking he did not would be an idiot.
    He is by far the superior actor in the family.
    Angie can claim Girl Interrupted.
    Jon can claim Midnight Cowboy, and the Champ for starters.