Angelina Jolie's dark past

Angelina Jolie has put a dark past behind her, one so dangerous she says, she barely survived it. But there's still some "bad" to this gorgeous actress who is directing a film for the first time and talks to Bob Simon for a "60 Minutes" profile. Her story will be broadcast on "60 Minutes" Sunday, Nov. 27 at 7 p.m. ET/PT.

Jolie was tabloid fodder during a period in which she and her then-husband Billy Bob Thornton wore vials of each other's blood around their necks and she once passionately kissed her own brother in public. Her father, the actor Jon Voight, stated publicly that she needed help.

"I went through heavier, darker times and I survived them. I didn't die young," she tells Simon. "So I am very lucky. There are other artists and people that didn't survive certain things ... people can imagine that I did the most dangerous, and I did the worst...for many reasons, I shouldn't be here," says Jolie. "You just...too many times where you came close to too many dangerous things, too many chances taken too, too far," says the actress, who is now known more for her humanitarian visits to poor countries, her six children and her relationship with Brad Pitt.

Jolie says, despite settling down, she still has some of that edginess to her. "I'm still a bad girl," she tells Simon. "I still have that side of me...it's just in its place now...it belongs to Brad. Or...our adventures."

Simon and "60 Minutes" cameras visited Jolie in Budapest, where she filmed some of the central scenes in her upcoming film, "In the Land of Blood and Honey." She wrote and directed the film, a dark love story set during the war in Bosnia in the early 1990s.

[LG1011]

Who cares

[magnumdr]

Darh Past? Dosen't everyone have some kind of "dark past". Crap, Im lucky that I am still alive after going through my younger years with my friends.

[knitter99]

She thinks that someone really cares if she is a bad girl, she is a parent, but yet claims to be a humanitarian, when she victimized women who were raped by thinking that making a movie about their heartache was ok, not ok. She just wants to take it to the bank. Will never see a movie her or her husband direct, star or even sponsor, will not give them a dime.

[GreedyOldPartee]

Just having Jon Voight for a father says it all.

[boatdocster]

No one really cares!

[fashiontrends1230]

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[fashiontrends1230]

Jolie was no stranger to controversies. Andrew Morton, who wrote the controversial biography of Lady Diana, had alleged Jolie betrayed her mom Marcheline Bertrand, when she was just 16 years old by sleeping with her boyfriend. The picture shows Jolie with her first husband Jonny Lee Miller
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[majormomma1]

I sent my son to military school 73 days ago. A week after he left, I began writing a blog - majormomma.blogspot.com
Thank you, Ms. Jolie, for saying what you did. It helps me stay strong in my efforts to help my son come out healthy on the other side.

[johnnyhum]

yes, Brangelina does humanitarian work. and publicizes it like no other. funny, the media just happens to be in remote Haiti or some other exotic locale to document it. kudos to Brad for at least showing some interest in his fellow Americans after Katrina. as far as she goes.... i find her interesting. kinda like a wierd bug or a chameleon with spots.

[jjbraddock]

thesoulshattering.net

Question for Bob Simon and Angelina Jolie?

Did Angelina Jolie use (steal) this book (The Soul Shattering in English) written by the Bosnian-Croatian author James J. Braddock a.k.a Josip J. Knezevic, as the story platform for her movie In The Land of Blood and Honey?

Did she totally miss the truth and core of that genocidal war against Bosnia and her people?

Why was she banned from filming in Bosnia by the most influental organization of women - victims of the war?

Did she rewrite history and offended thousands of women and other innocent victims of the Serbian aggression on Bosnia & Herzegovina?

Should American women and human rights organizations get involved?