Jon Voight is very upset about the “feud”.
“I find it very heartbreaking that my children want to paint a bad guy portrait of me. I feel it comes from their inability to let go of years of programmed anger from their mother, who understandably felt quite hurt when we divorced. In all truth, I tried to give him and their mother continuous love and support and large sums of money. God knows, for years I’ve tried to mend this relationship. Perhaps the trauma of their mother’s passing has made it worse.” says Voight.
Angelina’s brother recently did an interview were he stated that they were subjected to mental abuse from Voight.
In November’s Marie Claire, Haven says he dedicates himself to helping abandoned women and children due to his own scarred experience as a child. Of his famous father, Haven says, “I don’t want to constantly berate my father — I wish him well, and I hope he finds peace — but he put my mom through years of mental abuse.”
Though his children may not feel the same way, Voight hopes to mend their broken relationship. “I continuously send them my heart and love and am always available to them for whatever they may need from me.”
October 17th, 2007 at 6:43 am
What they are doing now is mental abuse to their father. I find Angelina the most disgusting in this feud. She’s blamed her father for years for cheating on their mother yet she’s continually done that to other women by cheating with their men. Bad Karma.
October 17th, 2007 at 7:05 am
i dont know if anyone is aware but angelina kept saying that her mother raised them by herself but she FORGOT TO MENTION the fact that her mother got married & stayed married for 2yrs and then after that she was living with a boyfriend for 10 yr bill ray i believe is his name and yet she was asking John Voight for spousal suport please note SPOUSAL SUPPORT NOT CHILD SUPPORT. I saw her will & she claimed that John owed her $100,000 on spousal and yet she was married & after that living with smome else after that. What the hell???
October 17th, 2007 at 7:05 am
She makes such a huge deal about being a UN Ambassador, and ensures the world knows about her every single humanitarian effort,and yet she cannot apply the same standards to her own life and forgive her father. She should grow up. She sees tremendous amounts of pain and poverty and unhappiness when she travels the world, and yet she fails to put her own, relatively insignificant problems, into perspective. Methinks that Ms Jolie should practice what she preaches…
October 17th, 2007 at 7:44 am
Not one of you has ANY RIGHT to even comment on this situation. You weren’t there, you don’t know what happened. Mental abuse is alive and rampant, and yes, even Jon Voight might be capable of it. Who am I to say if it is true? I don’t know, and I wouldn’t dare to comment. That is a personal, family issue. The press needs to not ask questions about it if they don’t want to hear their answers. That’s over the line, in my opinion.
October 17th, 2007 at 7:46 am
It amazes me that poeple only pick and choose what they want to see and what they want to understand because they dislike a person, i.e. Angelina Jolie. He could pay all of the child support in the world (I do not know if he did or did not) but according to the people involved and even he himself has admitted, HE WAS NOT THERE FOR THEM WHEN THEY WERE YOUNG. Let this be a lesson to any father out there thinking that a divorce gives them a free pass to live THEIR lives and visit their children whenever the moods hits them. Sending money as support as opposed to actually being there for your children will equal nothing but heartache and dysfunction in your relationship for a lifetime. You can’t pick and chose when you want to be there. A good parent is there no matter what happens. You may divorce the other parent but never use that as an excuse to divorce your children.
October 17th, 2007 at 8:14 am
When they make a public statement about their private lives (which they don’t have to do. Many, many celebrities never speak out about their private lives)then yes, I do have the right to comment. They have made this family rift become the public circus that it has, by making repeated statements to the press and giving interviews to journalists. And seeing as one of the heart breaking, childhood destroying memories that James Haven has sold to the press, and said traumatised him terribly, was the fact that he and Angelina didn’t get cars in High School!! I would say that shows what a vapid, spoiled, out of touch and immature person he is. If he thinks that is mental abuse, then he seriously needs to get in touch with reality
October 17th, 2007 at 8:15 am
I had a father that was abusive and even wrote a letter to tell me how much he hated me for years. I would never consider seeing him again. Just because he had sex with my mother, doesn’t make him a good father, & it doesn’t earn him any “rights” to see his children. Some people are evil & should be avoided.
October 17th, 2007 at 8:52 am
I remember that interview w/ James Haven. I thought OMG this is really stupid. I could not BELIEVE that BOZO! I believe family is the only thing you have and I am very greatful to have a good one :-). As for aw! you’re situation is way different then Jolie.
She had made up w/ her dad, they even filmed tomb raider and during that time she adoped the oldest kid. He (her father)announce that he was a pround grandfather and from there she got upset w/ him.
October 17th, 2007 at 9:06 am
maybe y’all could save your deepfelt concern for the children of the soldiers who have had to spend 2, 3 or 4 rotations in iraq … not to mention the children of those who have died or been mutilated in tortureboy’s great adventure.
October 17th, 2007 at 9:29 am
there was that time he shouted out to Maddox and Zahara but called her Shakira instead…that was rather special
October 17th, 2007 at 1:28 pm
dily….your a f**king idiot…u know that right?No one knows what he did to them.He could have sexually abused her for all you know.U people are sad….
October 17th, 2007 at 2:05 pm
Angelina has never had a thought that she didn’t feel compelled to tell the world. Please if she had been abused by her father it would have been revealed years ago. However, years ago she was talking about how great her father was. Angelina and James were mentally aabused by thier mother who used every trick in the book to turn her kids against the man who divorced. There are dozens of pictures of Jon with both Jamie and Angelina looking like a loving family. If these photos can be dismissed then the photos of Brangelina and the kids can be dismissed.
Jon didn’t indulge these two by denying them cars and trying to excert some discipline so he becomes the bad guy. Marcheline let’s the 14 year old Angelina have a live in lover and turned a blind eye to the drugs and sex and she is a hero. If Angelina was an introspective person she would look at her two young daughters and wonder what kind of a mother would let a 14 year old have sex in their home. I’m not saying Jon Voight was the best father but their mother was a definite candidate for Child Protection Service.
October 17th, 2007 at 2:28 pm
Dily - as Letibe pointed out she DID forgive her father. What Letibe failed to mention is that when Angie thought everything was goign well with her father, he suddeny turned around and told the tabloids she was mentally ill and should have Maddox taken away from her - and she learned about this through the tabloids. Once an Abusive Asshole, always an abusive asshole. Why should she risk her chidren being abused by allowing him back into their lives when at any minute he could set off without warning.
Notice how there is nothing in his statement about him being sorry for his actions - he blames it all on their own behaviour and their mother. He sees nothing wrong with what his done so there’s no chance that’s he’s changed.
October 17th, 2007 at 3:09 pm
I can understand them holding on to their anger about the way they or their mother was treated. There is no excuse for abuse. Most certainly they are not making this up, because what would be the point?? They have their reasons, and I’m sure they’re valid. Too bad for him. One day, the kids will forgive him and let it go, but they’re not ready yet.
October 17th, 2007 at 4:07 pm
James and Angelina both need to be in therapy. There is no proof that they were abused by Jon. People attack him yet no one dares attack the mother for her bad behavior which is far worse than anything we currently know about Jon. So far the only thing we know is that Jon didn’t buy Jamie a car and called Angelina crazy. She is a lunatic based on her acting out and other bad behavior over the years.
October 17th, 2007 at 6:35 pm
Never speculate that much on whats said in the media. The truth of anything lies within.