If I was in Angelina Jolie’s position, I would have cut my father off a long time ago. Jon Voight is a completely ridiculous person politically and personally. Not only has Voight spent years passive-aggressively attacking his daughter, but he’s also an unhinged Trump supporter who believes that protesting against Trump is “treason.” Voight has been friends with Trump for years, and that friendship is one of the reasons why Trump always trashed Angelina in interviews. And Voight was still friendly with Trump after Trump said nasty things about his daughter too. But I guess Angelina is a better person than me. Because she’s still spending time with her father. E! News had the exclusive photos – go here to see.
Angelina Jolie has been spending time with another important man in her life amid her divorce from Brad Pitt: Her father, actor Jon Voight. On Wednesday, the actress was spotted leaving a sushi restaurant in Beverly Hills with the star and four of her and Pitt’s kids—Pax, 13, Zahara, 12, and twins Vivienne and Knox. Jolie wore a long, black scoop neck dress.
Voight told E! News’ Zuri Hall at the King Arthur premiere earlier this week that “Angie’s doing good” these days. She filed for divorce from Pitt in September after two years of marriage and a 12-year relationship. The two, who share six children, got involved in a custody battle before reaching a temporary custody agreement. Last December, Voight said his daughter was “OK,” adding, “She’s holding on.”
Any port in a storm? Or is something else in play? Maybe Jolie genuinely wants to be around family during a difficult time. Maybe Jolie figures that her dad is always going to sell her out and talk about her in interviews, so she might as well accept it and keep him on-message. I have no idea. But if I was in her position… yeah, I think I would have canceled my father long ago.
Photos courtesy of WENN, Pacific Coast News.
It was her brother’s birthday.
Yeah, and stuff like this proves none of those entertainment sites like E! & people have a direct source to Angelina or they would know it was most likely a birthday dinner. The sources are all coming from team Pitt 😂
YepISaidit. Very True.
They probably did know but it’s not much of a headline grabber if they mentioned it. I’m sure there are photos of him too but they’re not publishing them. There’s no gossip in the brother, there’s more gossip in Angie and Jon’s relationship and that’s what gets the views/money.
People magazine wrote the kids brought gifts for their grandfather but Jon’s birthday is in December.SMH
People magazine should just admit they’ve lost access to Angelina. Their faux exclusives are very disturbing, it’s so obvious they are lying everytime they claim one…I mean I know all tabs lie but seriously have they no shame? Actually I know the answer to that. I seriously doubt E knows anything either. Now if it was coming from Vanity Fair…
After a decade or so, Brad would know his brother-in-law’s birthday. If it was for their uncle, why wouldn’t all the kids be there?
Glad that Angelina and her children are spending quality time with her father. Good for James Birthday, glad to their family was together for that event.
I wonder if she didn’t break from her no-dad policy and do this (1) for her brother who she seems very close to and (2) for her children to have some contact with their grandfather. Maybe he’s bearable in small doses. I love Jon Voigt as an actor but I agree he says crazy sh*t.
Voight doesn’t seem like the kind of guy who likes sushi. He seems like the kind of guy who grumbles he likes his food cooked, and doesn’t like fish that much anyway.
Like a well done steak with ketchup?
lol. great minds think alike, and fools tastes seldom differs?
I figured he would be insulted because it’s Japanese. I thought he only like ‘Murica things!
@Lucy2 The restaurant has steak for Jon and chicken.
He probably asked Pax and Zahara to see their papers.
i laughed sooo hard at this.
omg, that was a good one.
yeah, she’s a better person that I am. I would have canceled his azz long ago, too.
Lmao 😂
Does he even know Zahara’s name?!?
That’s Shakira to Jon, thankyouverymuch!
http://www.justjared.com/2006/08/29/jon-voight-loves-shakira/
That’s a really good one!
Voight’s an ass but he’s still her father. I wouldn’t cut ties with my dad either and he had talked trash about “my grandma’s people” too (not to mention he’s conservative head to toe with every bit of baggage that comes with it).
I understand the pull of family ties, but have heard too much of the “he’s still your father/she’s still your mother” in the context of abuse of all types to support this argument. It’s Jolie’s choice to see her father, and it appears to be that in this situation it was to celebrate her brother’s birthday – and in a public setting. However, “still your ______” is not a reason to remain in any kind of abusive relationship, or even in a relationship that was formerly abusive but in which the abuser has not tried to repair the damage (admitted abuse, acknowledge the harm, and apologized).
If anything, “still your ____” is a reason to stay away: mothers, fathers, boyfriends, husbands etc. are the last people who are supposed to be abusive in any way.
I agree. some people’s families are toxic and they need to stay away for their own mental health. for anyone to say “still your _________” is, in a way, downplaying that possibility. no one knows the intricacies of anyone else’s family dynamic and to shame someone for not having a relationship with a parent/sib/etc is unfair.
I love my family and have a great relationship with my parents and sibs but I fully recognize that I’m lucky and not everyone has that.
Ugh, I hate this mentality that some try to guilt others into sticking by family just because they are family. My father was an alcoholic abuser and my mother left me in the middle of a orange grove with one of her 40 year old “friends” when I was 17. I cut them out of my life and have nothing to do with them. I constantly get judged or lectured by people with out them knowing all the hell I went thru. It is the best thing I ever did and I don’t feel one bit guilty or saddened by it.
Chingona-that is horrible. Ugh-you shouldn’t feel the least bit guilty about cutting them out.
I applaud you for your courage and sticking to your guns. No one should judge the relationships we maintain – or not – with family members, even if they know all the details, even if they think they’d make a different choice. None of their business.
I am so sorry that your parents treated you that way, and I applaud your strength. you had to do what was necessary for you to be mentally healthy.
Thanks, everyone. I started distancing myself from them at 17 but would still see or talk to them sometimes, then a couple of months after my daughter was born my mother was in the hospital and I went to see her. My mother said to me that I should put a hat on my little girl because her ears stuck out too much. In that moment I decided that I might have not had the power to stop everything they did to me, but I damn sure was not going to let them hurt my children. I walked away and I haven’t seen or talked to them since.
Good for you. People who have decent parents don’t always understand this, but sometimes it is necessary.
@ Chingona : I was happily estranged from my mother for many years. It was what I needed to do for my own mental health. You keep doing what you need to do. Stick with healthy people.
Good for you. People do not realize the damage personality disordered family can do and making a choice to cut off is not easy in any way. People need to realize how difficult it is and offer support instead of judgement.
I wish I could cut my mom off sometimes…but damn the guilt! And my little sisters wouldn’t have it either. I hate being the oldest and so inextricably bound to family. However, I do manage to carve out a safe and healthy space for myself. I think if I met the right man and he wanted to move me across the country or to another country I’d go without hesitation. But somehow can’t do this for myself. I raise my glass to you Chingona!
If he were my dad – he’d be soooo cancelled…but who knows what goes on in people’s families right? Mayve it was her brother’s birthday, as someone else has said, maybe she wants to connect with her only surviving parents, who knows? She wouldn’t be the first person in the world to remain in contact with a completely batshit crazy/abusive family member.
I am surprised, however, that she exposes her kids to him – that doesn’t seem her style. Or perhaps it is that she wants her kids to know their granddad?
It’s easy to say you’d cut off a parent, but it’s a hard thing to do. I’ve got friends who have done it and other friends who have never quite been able to make it stick.
Even kids that are being neglected or abused and end up in foster care, given the option, would prefer to go back to their parents. They just want to abuse to stop.
It’s hard to get over wanting your parents to love you and be better people. Especially once you’ve already lost one.
Yes, this is true. If anything, abused children cling more because out of insecurity. It’s a form of Stockholm syndrome.
In this case, it seems more likely Jolie sets some boundaries and she probably doesn’t leave her kids alone with him in any case.
Angelina does bondaries for her father.
@Yup,
That’s a very compassionate, understanding post that I happen to agree with. I don’t know all of the ins and outs of Jolie and Voight’s relationship, only they do and probably have different takes on it besides, but I applaud people trying to keep civility in place. Also, I completely agree that as you stated, having lost one parent, it is particularly heartbreaking to lose the only one left.
Hopefully, both Jolie, Voight, Haven, and the grandchildren find an understanding and comfort from one another. I would always hope for healing in these situations.
I cut my father off. I don’t need toxicity in my life. He’s abusive, manipulative and dangerous. He made the decision easier than you think.
I can’t stand one of my uncles but I still go to family celebrations.I try to be cordial but I will never spend one on one time with him.When I see AJ and Jon having dinner ALONE then I will say they may have a closer relationship.
Right. I think she probably has boundaries in place that she’s comfortable with for herself and her children. Maybe meeting as a group and steering clear of certain topics.
@LadyT. You are correct in your observation of Angelina and Jon relationship.
Kids are a great buffer. Btdt.
Btdt? What does that mean?
Been there, done that.
She looks effortless and fabulous! Queen!
It’s easy to say cut him off but keep in mind he’s her only living parent. She no longer has the support of her husband to rely on. She accepted him for who he is because she realized he’s not changing. I read in an interview she said they don’t talk about politics or the past because it would lead to a big argument. Their relationship seem be good as long as they have other people like her brother, in the past Brad around to be their buffer. It was her brother’s birthday that was what the dinner was for.
Let’s not forget, the JPs have this far right business coming on both sides. Remember Jane Pitt and her anti-Obama rant? Voight just gets the spotlight because of his celebrity and closeness to Trump.
I think Jolie realizes the kids cannot escape it. Al grandparents are still in their lives from my understanding despite the situation with Brad.
Better to help them to understand and cope with it.
I believe both Doug and Brad publicly admonished her (and/or their father) for some anti-gay and anti-Obama comments that came from their parents. Angelina has never done that with her father.
Really? I never heard that Brad said anything about his mother’s anti-gay and anti-Obama comments
I don’t know if he did or didn’t, but you could always google Jane’s rant and go from there.
She is a good person. Cutting off a parent is hard to do and Bought is getting older and Angelina has a l ways been the bigger person. You don want to wait until a parent dies because she use t he regrets never end. Plus it appears he loves his grandkids.
I agree completely. This just makes me admire her more tbh. She’s trying to be the bigger person.
He’s gonna tell us the ins and outs of this one meeting for they entire ass Year.. To ET, E!, Twitter Breibart Fox You name it
Maybe, despite everything, she just loves her father? I think she’s smart enough to keep him at arms length for her own peace of mind and still care for him deeply.
Maybe it was to remember her mother. It would have been her 67th on the 9th of May.
As the daughter of a crappy father -rage monster à la Alec Baldwin- I think there are two possibilities: he is a crappy person, but still is the grandfather of her children, and probably he is decent with them. Probably she is in a better place with herself, and moving on sometimes implies doing thing like burry the hatchet, it makes you feel more in peace with yourself. It’s not everyone cup of tea.
He went out his way to trying and kill her career before it got off the ground. That alone, should be it. But if it was a family dinner for James’ birthday, I get why she was there.
So she’s bringing her ‘immigrant’ children around Trump-loving Voight. Poor Shakira and Pax; must be great spending time with racist relatives.
I recall Mrs Pitt emphasizing President Obama’s middle name, Hussein, which is Arabic in origin in her letter to the editor of her hometown paper. If her intention was to “other” him, I wonder how she feels about Zahara’s name which too is Arabic in origin.
what is with her in the winter coat and the kid in shorts?
and forgiveness is for the benefit of the one forgiving, not the complete jagoff that continually shows his true colors.
she can’t change him and she can’t expect him to behave the way she thinks he should. total losing proposition. she can only take care of herself.
Voight’s a racist. It’s unforgiveable to expose your children, especially children of color, to that. Huge flaw in Jolie’s behavior here.
I agree but this is something white people need to reconcile. If they stopped talking to racist white people they’d barely have anyone to talk to and they know this. So they make excuses and keep people around, even people of color do it in their own social circles. Remember Sofia Richie said that one of her friends made a racist comment about black people and she threatened to slap them if they said it again; she didn’t cut them off completely.
Yeah, Brad needs to cut off his racist mom completely too 🙄
Btw, Brad and his bro never once came out against what Jane P said. Brad’s bro is a hardcore republican , too. He named his daughter Reagan for crying out loud.
@YepIsaidit
You clearly didn’t read what I wrote; I basically said that I don’t expect white people to cut off racist family members.
He has to deal with it. He was not racist in his comments towards his grandchildres, as far as I recall. He could not remember Zahara’s name well, but namew that are “newer” or out of the usual were problematic for my old time father and uncle to pronounce, so I’ll give him a break on that. Abiut Maddox he was complaining about her, not that he was a Cambodian baby.
Obama’s grandmother held racist views about black people.He discussed her during his 2008 campaign, he never cut off contact with her.Brad’s mom is a right wing, anti gay rights ,Conservative. He hasn’t cut off contact with her.Is it a huge flaw in their(Obama,Pitt) behavior? I have relatives who are bigots and homophobes I haven’t cut off contact with them.I confront them when they make hateful comments.
What racist comment has Voight made?
Or it’s a teaching opportunity.
She’s nicer than I would be.
For heaven’s sake it was her brother’s birthday they had a family dinner. I wouldn’t be surprised if Angelina wasn’t that close to her father, but I’ve never believed she’s ever completely excised him out of her life. Many people have trying relations with their parents over many things, celebs are no different.
All this talk of ‘strategy’ or ‘planning for now’ by either Jolie or Pitt re each other has gotten tiring. They’re both very busy people; does anyone think either have the time these days to sit around and plot or scheme against the other? I never doubted from day one of this split that with time we’d see them both civil, friendly and wanting the best for each other. You don’t love and live 12 years and have 6 loved kids and not have the ability to put past hurt feelings behind. They’re both bigger than this.
But that doesn’t sell papers or obtain web clicks so I guess I’m alone in the wilderness here.
Not really you’re not alone. Despite my comments on other threads… I’m just really pissed at the tabloids treatment of Angelina as a fan & while I do think Pitt is complicit and generally have a really low opinion of him, I don’t believe he’s a terrible human being. With time, I do believe that they’ll get to a place of respect, communication and co parent well together. They just need to ensure that whatever drove them apart is dealt with in theraphy etc. But you can’t deny the PR aspect of both their careers, they did it when they were together , they’ll do it now that they’re apart. You don’t get to the top of the tree without their kind of savvy & they’re two of the best in the business.
You’re right again, it was just a family dinner to celebrate her brothers birthday I’m sure at his request too.
I still reserve the right to call Pitt names despite what I just said.
Well, Pitt has time to spend 15 hours a day “sculpting” -that’s what he wants us to believe anyway 🙄 AJ seems to spend her Time raising her kids and attending family events.
@YesIsaidit don’t want to go into it, but do any of -really- know what exactly they both are doing with their time or the kids? We have little info beyond some pap photos, and what else is out there is unnamed ‘sources’ or unsourced ‘leaks’.
The fact that Angelina plopped down mega-money for a huge family spread less than a 5 minute drive from Brad’s I think is all the indication needed to see where they’re headed, parenting-wise. They’ll both be co-raising their kids. Pap photos or tab stories won’t tell the full story of who spends what time where.
YepIsaidit…Just when everyone was expressing themselves with civility and thoughtfulness someone has to throw a wrench in it.
Theothersam, we have information from his PR team. They have let us know that He has time to date, hang out with friends , sculpt, ride his motorcycle, travel , have many meetings for his next movie deals…plus we have the paparazzi strolls he sets up of him at his “sculpting” sessions… According to them he barely getting visits and they are still supervised by nannies because a therapist recommends it.
when /if he gets joint custody trust we will know about it because his team will scream it to every site that will listen.
Angelina’s team has said nada about what she’s up to. We only see her with her kids and now her father. I wish she was more of a famewh— like her ex.
We didn’t need her to buy a home that close to see where she wants him to be parentage wise — her team always said she wants him to get it together so he can eventually have joint custody. No one wanted to believe it– they would rather believe Pitt was some innocent man who was getting isolated from his kids 🙄😂
Ladyt, I don’t apologize. Maybe this site needs an ignore button 😋
Angelina would Never allow anyone to disrespect her children. One reason why she is divorcing her husband.
Oh, to be a fly on that wall!
Political differences is not abuse. Dad talking to media might be annoying as all get out….but you mom talks about you to aunt sally too and you wish she wouldn’t, You don’t cancel family over annoyances or political differences, You set boundaries, If mom talks to aunt sally despite your expressed wishes to not be a topic of conversation — you make sure mom doesn’t know anything you don’t want aunt sally to know. You are an adult, you can do that. I’m all for standing up against abuse and I cut my mom out over her repeated crossing over boundaries. (She tried to create estrangement between my father and me during their divorce,,,and then she lied to a lawyer after his death and tried to steal my inheritance from my father. She got caught and it didn’t happen .)
But I miss not having a mom in a lot of ways, and I sure wouldn’t walk away from one if she acted like JV. He’s annoying oerhaps……he is sanctimonious about lots of things. But he seems to genuinely love her and wants to be In her life. But yes, I’d boundary the heck out of him.
I am glad. She has a good father. She should while he is still living. I hope he lives longer because Angelina and her family are going to need him more.
What makes him a good father?
Bought is an opinionated butthole and is just as much at fault for his estranged relationship with his daughter. I don’t get why one of the site’s want to insert Pitts name as the catalyst who tried to bring these two together when he has his own parental issues. He has/had nothing to do with her relationship with JV. When Sherry L revealed what he and Jane F did to Angie I get it.
Maybe she feels the need to let the kids for a normal relationship with him since their dad is gonna apparently be more absent. He wasn’t there ad much in the past year anyways so I’m sure they r use to him not being there.
The question I have is where is Mad. you hardly see him. Hopefully the scrutiny he has taken from this hasn’t had an effect on him.
it is also clear that Angie is one of those moms that enjoys crafts with her kids.She talked about being perfectionist and obsessed with making perfect Easter baskets.
This is her claiming “old hollywood” status over gauche Brad Pitt at any cost.
@D Angelina is just having a birthday dinner which includes her father. Angelina is a kind person and probably has set boundaries for him.
I cut my dad off when I was 15. He’s abusive and a generally terrible person. My younger brother and sister still see him, which can make things awkward sometimes. I definitely don’t regret it at all.
Director Nora Twomey of the movie ‘BREADWINNER’ invited Prince Charles and Camilla to the Premiere this fall, hope they will attend. Angelina is the Producer.