In an emotional speech at one of the Oscars, Angelina Jolie talked about her mother and the “legacy” she left her.
Angelina Jolie about her mother: “She wanted more for me and my brother…” “My mother loved art, she loved the film. He supported me in all the crazy things I did if they meant anything to me. He didn’t have a career as an artist, he didn’t have a chance to assert himself, but he wanted more for me and my brother and he gave us the chances we needed. ” “He would take me to auditions and wait for me in the car for hours. It comforted me when I didn’t get the role, and when I got it, we both jumped for joy like two little girls. ” “He was not the best critic because he only had words of praise for me, but he offered me love, trust, and, above all, he told me very clearly that nothing I do will make any sense if I do not offer help to those around me. ”
Angelina says she didn’t understand what her mother was talking about until she started traveling and getting to know other people’s lives. This is how she had the opportunity to see with her own eyes the poverty in which children from other continents live.
In addition to the charities she performed, Angelina Jolie decided to change the lives of three children she adopted from Africa. Who was the mother of Angelina Jolie Marcheline Bertrand was an actress, in her turn, but she did not have the chance of a brilliant career in Hollywood, as she would have liked. She was better known as the wife of actor Jon Voight, who wanted two children, now well-known actors, Angelina Jolie and James Haven.
Marcheline broke up with Voight in 1976, just one year after Angelina’s birth, and raised her two children alone.
Unfortunately, Marcheline Bertrand died in January 2007, at the age of only 56, after an eight-year battle with ovarian and breast cancer. Her mother and sister, respectively Angelina Jolie’s grandmother and aunt, also died of ovarian cancer. That was why Angelina Jolie decided to surgically remove her breasts and ovaries after learning that she had a very high risk of getting same cancer.