Angelina Jolie is sometimes referred to as Hollywood royalty, seeing how she’s the daughter of Hollywood actor Jon Voight, but she wasn’t someone who grew up in a fairytale castle. In fact, Jolie has made it no secret that her relationship with her father wasn’t always easy.Â
Her Oscar-winning father left her and her family, which included her mother Marcheline Bertrand and her brother James Haven, when she was just “an infant,” per The Hollywood Reporter. Because of this, Jolie had doubts about whether or not she would ever build a life and family of her own. She told Elle in 2014, “I never thought I’d have children, I never thought I’d be in love, I never thought I’d meet the right person. Having come from a broken home — you kind of accept that certain things feel like a fairytale, and you just don’t look for them.”
Jolie also did everything she could to distance herself from her father, including this one move that a lot of children of famous Hollywood stars would never dare of doing themselves. But Jolie did it without any regrets. Keep scrolling below.