In fact, Jolie’s kids have even begun spending more time with their grandfather. After all the years of animosity, it seems like Jolie and Voight have finally put the past behind them.
Jolie and her father have long been estranged. Starting from when her parents, Marcheline Bertrand and Voight, divorced, Jolie has been openly critical of how her father handled things and sympathetic to her mother’s plight.
After a brief reconciliation during the filming of Tomb Raider, which Jolie starred in and Voight appeared as her onscreen father, Jolie once again stopped talking to her father.
Around the same time, Jolie filed for divorce from her then-husband Billy Bob Thornton shortly after adopting her first child, Maddox. The actress released a statement to Access Hollywood, via E! News, about her decision to cut off contact between herself and her father.
“I don’t want to make public the reasons for my bad relationship with my father. I will only say that like every child, [her brother, Jamie] and I would have loved to have had a warm and loving relationship with our dad.” Jolie continued,
After all these years, I have determined that it is not healthy for me to be around my father, especially now that I am responsible for my own child.
Through the following years, as Jolie began dating — and eventually married Brad Pitt and added her other five children, Zahara, Pax, Shiloh, Vivienne, and Knox, to the family — she was true to her word and kept her father’s presence as far from her life as possible.
In 2010, however, at the urging of her then-husband Brad Pitt, Jolie reconnected with her estranged father and the two began tentatively taking steps toward rebuilding.
After what he’d said about her in the past, some probably thought it’d be impossible for Voight and Jolie to reconcile, but the two actors proved they could overcome seemingly insurmountable barriers in their relationship.
Following her divorce from Thornton, and her subsequent decision to cut contact with her father, Voight spoke with E! News about the status of his relationship with Jole and he didn’t hold anything back. The Deliverance actor revealed that the last time he saw Jolie in person was at the 90th anniversary party for Paramount in 2002.
I ran to give her a hug, and one of her representatives stepped in my way and said, ‘Get back,’
Voight recalled, adding, “I’ve had difficulty reaching her” since that night. He insisted that he’d been trying to get in contact so earnestly because he’d been worried about her, but his efforts were in vain.
“She’s been staying away from me because she knows I’ve been trying to reach her to get help.” Though Voight didn’t say what sort of help he believed Jolie needed, he did say that she was suffering from “serious emotional problems that I have witnessed very closely.”
The star of Midnight Cowboy went on to insist that the “reason for my plea is not for myself,” but rather, for his daughter. “I want nothing more than to hold my baby in my arms,” adding, “I want to tell Angie that I love her and I want her to get the help she needs…And I want her to find true love.”
It took a number of years, during which the number of his grandchildren expanded greatly, but Jon Voight was eventually able to rekindle his relationship with Angelina Jolie and officially begin his grandfatherly duties. There were some strict rules involved, of course.
Jolie spoke briefly about her father’s newfound relationship with his grandchildren in a 2017 Vanity Fair interview. The actress said, “He’s been very good at understanding they needed their grandfather at this time.
I had to do a therapy meeting last night and he was just around. He knows kind of the rule — don’t make them play with you. Just be a cool grandpa who’s creative, and hang out and tell stories and read a book in the library.”
Voight, meanwhile, was allegedly tired of watching “Angie take out her revenge on people he cares about,” according to an insider. The dubious insider went on to say, “Jon told her Jen didn’t do anything wrong and doesn’t deserve to be dragged into this fight.”
Obviously, if Pitt and Aniston aren’t dating, which they aren’t, there’s no need for the Friends actress to be dragged into Pitt and Jolie’s legal battles. Likewise, there’s no need for Voight to beg his daughter to go easier on anyone. There are likely only two people who understand what, precisely, the dynamic is like between Jon Voight and Angelina Jolie, and that’s Jolie and Voight.
Any publication that claims to know what’s really going on between the two, especially if it uses the words of anonymous sources as evidence, likely doesn’t have the whole story. –gossipcop