'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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Friday 30 July

By amksinny

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Hi Larry
It sounds to me like you are the FAT WAL-MART SHOPPER!!!@!!!!!!lololololololol

By Carol Hock

you can be a perfect Mother when you have 9 nannies! Who cares?

By K

Great role models for our young people - NOT!

By jld

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Andrew Morton is a British rag journalist. He feeds his family with the blood from the lives of others ie; Diana, Cruse and now Jolie to name others. If I were him, I'd be dam careful about what I say about Angie and Brad, they just won a judgement against another British rag.

By chintzgirl

I've often thought that Angelina's mom was the root of most if not all of her and her brother's problems. Not to excuse Jon Voights cheating but both the children were really, really young when the affair happened. Mom must have told them on a daily basis how horrible their father was and how he ruined her career etc. Mom moving out and not seeing her because she looked so much like her dad tells me mommy was a nut job of the first order.

By glers

Boo Hoo the Hollywood brat has no idea what a troubled life is

By Piper

I GET PITT AND ANGENLINA MIXED WITH DOG'S IN HEAT.
I REALLY BELIEVE HIM TO BE THE PIG.....

By Athena

My husband is quick to point out that this is a "man's world". Judging from who holds most positions of power and authority, I suppose that is, in part, true.

Logically, then men should be able to take responsiblity for both the good and the bad they bring into the world.

If a man is married and has an affair it is his responsibility alone.
No one can make someone have an affair. It is the person who is married and has an affair that is to blame and NO ONE ELSE.

By mark

WE ALREADY KNOW MOST OF THIS AND STILL LOVE HER.. MORTON IS A TRAITOR.. A PARASITE, A LEECH AND SHOULD BE SUED BY ANGELINA JOLIE. ANYTHING GOOD THE WORLD WOULD WANT TO DAMAGE
C ANT BEAT ANGELINA.. SHE HAS IT ALL.

By trex

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big deal most people have stuff in there life that they want to forget everyone should just leave Angelina alone and get a life

By Daisy

Why are we so facinated with these people....Honestly we dont really know them ...besides the stuff the media puts out...and who says half of that is true...They are just human...but why do we act as if they are gods?

By red robin

Have u seen the guy, I mean, really seen him? Watch an old Stargate: Atlantis episode and you will see how huge this guy is! The movie (& Stargate: Atlantis) may suck, yes, but I think he's perfect for the role of Conan.

By Angie

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Why do people try to tar and feather Angelina and Brad? They have an outstanding relationship with each other and lots of love for the children. Jennifer? This self centered airhead is the victim??? Boo hoo hoo! If your relationship/marriage is very solid, there is no way, your partner can be stolen away from you! Think about this, people! I have only respect for Miss Jolie, she is an outstanding actress and she grew up a lot!!! So, let them breathe and take your hate somewhere else!

By disgusted

She does not respect other women's marriages/relationships. Brad was to blame too and now he gets to reap what he sews. Since that crap they pulled I have not spent one cent on their movies and never will.

And by the way - nobody seems to care, that Jennifer Anniston is always involved with some man, but until now, nobody sticks with her! Thats maybe something to ponder, before you only badmouth Angelina and Brad!!!

By Ali

We Americans are such Rubber Neckers!! Their relationship is no ones business, but their own. People do not steel other people's mates -- that's so crazy. When a relationship ends, it's because things are not strong enough to keep the bond intact. Brad probably wanted to be a father and Jennifer probably wasn't ready to be a mother? I don't understand the medias and publics desire project such negativity on to Angelina; and her relationship with Brad. Live & let live. Life is short and we should focus on our own lives instead of getting involved in gossip about folks that we will probably never even meet.

By Mark

what bothers me the most is there are far bigger problems for us to worry about...........who is running this country.......do we really need to worry about these people?

By adlteam

Wow I just think it's rude for this man to pry into Jolie's life and make things public. From the looks of it, it doesn't even seem like Jolie approved? What a shame.

By Brenda

Don't like either one....

By Kerry

Is it just me or does Angelina's arms & legs look sickly skinny?

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