Angelina Jolie's - History of Dark

THE OSCAR WINNER'S SHOCKING PAST IS MARKED BY MENTAL HEALTH STRUGGLES, SUBSTANCE ABUSE ISSUES AND A CHILLING MURDER-FOR-HIRE PLOT.

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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

Angelina’s teens and 20s were “dark and dangerous times,” a source tells Star. Her parents, Oscar winner Jon Voight, 77, and late actress and artist Marcheline Bertrand, separated when Angelina and brother