'Angelina' Tell-All Paints Shocking Picture of Jolie's Troubled Childhood

By Catherine Donaldson-Evans Posted Jul 29th 2010 07:56PM

Angelina Jolie has lived a life of contradictions. Now a goodwill ambassador and one of the world's most celebrated actresses, she's blessed with six beautiful children (and one Brad Pitt), but she was once also a heroin addict from a shattered home who went on to steal other women's husbands. This -- and so much more -- according to the forthcoming bombshell tell-all about the actress, 'Angelina: An Unauthorized Biography,' by the master of such celebrity dirt-fests, Andrew Morton.

Leaked excerpts from the book are fueling so much hype that publisher St. Martin's Press has moved up its release date from Aug. 3 to July 31, says USA Today.

Critics cite the lurid details of the 35-year-old star's childhood as the most compelling morsels Morton throws his readers.

An affair Jolie's famous father Jon Voight had with starlet Stacey Pickren when Jolie was only a few months old tore apart her family life and set her on a path of teenage rebellion, according to the book.

Her mother Marcheline Bertrand moved out of the posh Beverly Hills high-rise where baby Angelina lived with her dad and was taken care of by nannies. A bitter Bertrand rarely came to see her daughter during the first year of her life because Jolie reminded her too much of her philandering husband, Morton says.

"She separated herself from that child because she looked a lot like Jon," he writes.

The author traces Jolie's battle with heroin, cocaine and anorexia during her teens and early 20s, her bisexuality, the loss of her virginity at age 14 to a boy named Anton – whom her mother let move into their house – and her addictive romantic relationships with men and women.

He outlines her marriages to Jonny Lee Miller (whom, he says, she was cheating on with an old girlfriend and later with actor Timothy Hutton) and to Billy Bob Thornton (whom she clung to as she struggled to get clean). Just before she and Thornton tied the knot in Las Vegas in 2000, her mother checked her into the Neuropsychiatric Institute at UCLA for three days.

"In her heightened state, struggling to stay off heroin and wrestling her addiction to Billy Bob, Angie went to pieces," Morton says.

The 46-year-old Pitt, described as a "bit of a stoner" and "Mr. Mom," is characterized by Morton as someone the 'Salt' actress had set her sights on long before she buried her claws into him on the set of 'Mr. and Mrs. Smith.'

The actor "was one of the triumvirate of men - the other two were Johnny Depp and Willem Dafoe - whom Angie had watched and wondered about from afar," says Morton.

And Pitt was equally enthralled. "The corn-fed boy was toast," claims Morton. Jolie "came across as a strange exotic wanting to save the world's underclass and yet fill her life with children."

In spinning his version of Jolie's relationship with Pitt, the actress is cast as the calculating, bewitching villain who denies any role in the collapse of his marriage. Before the Aniston-Pitt union unraveled, Morton recounts a meeting between the two queens of Hollywood.

"As Angie shook her hand, Jennifer could have been excused for wondering whether she was extending her long slim fingers in friendship or sizing up her next victim, like a hangman judging the length of rope needed for the drop," he writes.

But Jolie is also hailed as a heroine for her work for the U.N. During her first trip to Sierra Leone in that role, Morton says, the star "insisted on paying her own way and on being treated like everyone else."

The book hit shelves last Saturday. Morton predicts that even Jolie, who has tried to divert attention away from it, will feel its impact.

"I think my biography will genuinely change the way people view her -- and the way she sees herself," he tells The Daily Mail.

Tags: Andrew Morton, angelina jolie, Brad Pitt

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Thursday 29 July

By bakermf465

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That guy is trying to con people into buying that stupid, "unauthorized" autobigraphy about Angelina Jolie by telling us some facts we already know like her work with the UN. So we will believe the other garbage he writes is true. The oldest trick in the book. It's a rag. I will not read it or anymore articles about it.

Friday 30 July

By Mac

There is a difference between a biography and an autobiography. It would be extremely difficult to write an unauthroized autobiography.

Mistake. Meant biography. The point is it's unauthorized. That's the key word.

By Mystic Woman

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Ha! Unauthorized autobiography...that's for someone with split personalites! Hh ahahah...
Angie is a weirdo.

By lbeau6

Agreed.
I'm tired of so many people acting as if they have the inside story. How do any of you know when she slept with Brad Pitt? I've read articles that claim she refused until after his divorce & I've read articles that obviously claim otherwise.
Regardless, who are any of you to tear them apart? I'm sure you've never made a mistake in your entire life.
I'll read a book when she writes it, thanks.

Monday 02 August

By Messa

People, how many times do we have to go over this? You cannot "steal" someone from someone else. If a relationship is strong, nothing will break it up and if Brad Pitt had been happy with what's-her-name, he wouldn't have left. End of story. Gawd, people are always blaiming the other person rather than who should be blamed, the one who left. If anyone ruinned Brad Pitt's marriage it was Brad Pitt, not Angelina. You make it sound like men are just helpless morons that we bend to our will. They aren't helpless and they can always keep it in their pants.

Tuesday 03 August

By A. G.

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I'm just tired of seeing and hearing about this not talent, trailer trash, low life pig! hollywood garbage...same goes for biits...dumber than a box of rocks
I've never understood why people admire these phony two faced clowns!

messa: you're really impressed with yourself.,..you like thinking you're superior to everyone and talk down to everyone...get over your unimportant self!
nena: you think you're soooooooooooo hip and cool...you're nothing but a parrot...a cow following the heard
grow up...be an individual...think for yourself...necessary

By racings12a

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Usually the unauthorized version may be more truthful than the ones authorized by the subject. The ones that are authorized aren't going to tell any dirt the subject doesn't want out there to tarnish the halo they all think they have above their heads.

By Lynn

DOn't be so naive bakermf465....the woman has lots of issues...like lots of others. Morton is pretty good with his stuff....and I don't think any one who knows her is the least surprised. It's worse than he wrote. LIke many others...Angelina is trying to bury her past...that's admirable.

By Tex

Glad she ended up with Pitt instead of Depp. Capt Jack Sparrow is way too cool to fall for her wiles.

By shelby

I'm sooooo tired of everyone casting Angelina as the villian in the Brad/Jen breakup. What about Brad??? He's the one that was married and may or may not have cheated!!! What is wrong witgh you people?? Does having a penis automatically exclude you from any blame in a situation like that?? Let me guess, she's so incredibly seductive that he just couldn't help himself, right? Give me a break.

By rkniolek

perfectly said shelby

By amksinny

I agree with you. Maybe his IQ is the same as HIS AGE. To leave his wife for that piece of work was insane. Now he has children with her. I hope he is doomed to be with her for the rest of his life. I don't see her movies or his anymore.

By Kathy

You are right about one thing. Brad was married, and as such he should have had repect for his wife. But since he didn't, Angelina should have insisted that he do the right thing and break up with Jennifer before biginning an affair with her. She had a reputation for getting what she wanted and that included pursuing married men. As a woman, she should have an understanding of how devastating it it is to be betrayed by the man you love. Two people in a relationship are supposed to balance eachother but their actions cancelled eachother out. I have no respect for either one of them.

By onlyinamerica

Yes Brad was married, and Angela Ho-lie knew that. A real woman does not sleep with a married man! She seeks out one who isn't married. If she didn't know he was married and he lied than all the blame lies on him but when a woman (a term I hate too use with Angelina Ho-lie) knows than she is totally responsible. Is it so hard to respect another woman and find someone else. Brad Pitiful and Angela Ho-lie are both pathetic in my eyes. I haven't seen a Brad Pitiful or Angelina Ho-li pic since their affair (not like they need my money) but you couldn't pay me a million to watch an Angelina movie. Sad to say it but I'm all for stoning the likes of Angelina Ho-lie, and Rielle Hunter,

By sadie

I agree! And why is he always portrayed as being so hot and such a cast. A waste of human skin, if you ask me.

By Mike

Hey..maybe the one he left had something to do with it..I don't see her setting the world on fire in the relationship department..do you?

By Tony

Hi Shelby...It takes 2 to screw...Angie the HO is not so innocient in sleeping with anyone including other peoples husbands...THEY ARE BOTH TO BLAME..Just 2 pigs in HEAT

By andie482

I am sorry it takes two. She gets as much blame as Pitt. She had to encourage him somewhat for him to leave his wife. And if he was that unhappy he should have left before...

By steve

Maybe the FACT that Angelina has broken up NUMEROUS marriages is the reason she's "cast as the villian"...gee, ever think of that??? She is a homewrecker and you people trying to deny what she's did is a joke...

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