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NEARLY a year ago, Angelina Jolie confessed she was at a crossroads. “I’m still understanding who I am,” the movie star, who turns 50 next year, told Vogue last September. “I guess I’m in transition as a person.” Amid her contemplations, she further admitted, “I don’t feel like I’ve been myself for a decade, in a way,” clearly referring to the toll taken by her tumultuous divorce and custody battle with third husband Brad Pitt. She wants, she added, to make a shift: “I’m hoping to change many aspects of my life.”
As Angelina figures out her path forward, it’s instructive to revisit where she’s been. “I was not a very stable youth,” the Academy Award winner has admitted. From drug use and a mental breakdown to suicidal ideations that led her to plan her own demise in a murder-for-hire plot, she’s been on a troubling and twisted journey. “I went through heavier, darker times and I survived them. I didn’t die young, so I’m very lucky,” the actress-director later acknowledged, confessing,
“I did the most dangerous and I did the worst. For many reasons, I shouldn’t be here.”
WILD CHILD
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