Angelina Jolie’s sharing how her mother Marcheline Bertrand must have felt watching Jon Voight leave for his “other woman.”
The Maria star got emotional while accepting the Maltin Modern Master Award at Santa Barbara’s International Film Festival, opening up about her mom who passed in 2007 at 56 from ovarian and breast cancer.
“I am trying to think of how much I’m going to share right now,” Jolie, 49, started, according to People. She then talked about watching Voight at the 1979 Oscars, where he snagged Best Actor for Coming Home. This was three years after splitting from Bertrand, with their divorce finalizing in 1980.
Even though Voight was technically still married, he brought actress Stacey Pickren as his date to the Oscars.
“My mom was home with two little kids,” shared Jolie, who has an older bro, James Haven, 51. “My mom’s dream was to be an actor. I believe my mother’s mother’s dream was to be an actor, which is probably why she took her to the theater in Chicago all the time.”
“She was in her twenties because she had me when she was very young. She was divorced from a very famous man and she was home with her babies in an apartment watching him win an Oscar with the other woman.”
While clearly painful for Bertrand and the kids, Jolie called it “a part of our family history.” “I remember thinking that [Bertrand] was there for me and my brother and that was the choice she made. And how she must have felt on that night always really stuck with me,” she added.
When Jolie won her Oscar for Girl, Interrupted in 2000, she gave it straight to her mom. “To have that moment, to get off that stage and call her and say, ‘It’s yours’ — and I gave it to her — one of the best moments of my life.”
Since losing her mom, Jolie’s barely spoken to Voight. Last August, the 85-year-old actor commented on his daughter’s split from Brad Pitt, which wrapped up in December.
“I wish they’d find a way to make peace,” Voight told Fox News. “I think the kids need some stability. I love the kids, and I love my daughter. And I want Brad to step up to do, you know, what he has to do. End this nonsense.”
