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Angelina Jolie has enjoyed a vast and successful career in Hollywood. Starting as an actress and model in the 90s, she has since become a prominent figure in the industry with several acclaims to her name. However, despite everything she has earned, life has not always been easy for her. TheEternalsstar has been quite open about her struggles, and during a 2001 interview, she revealed that she planned to end her life by hiring a hitman.
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Angelina Jolie Wanted to Hire a Hitman to Kill Herself
Angelina Joliehas been quite open about her struggles in the early years of her career. She has admitted that sometimes things got so bad that she even contemplated suicide. However, she almost decided to hire someone else to end her life.
“This is going to sound insane, but there was a time I was going to hire somebody to kill me,”she said, as perThe Herald. TheLara Croftactress explained that she decided not to commit suicide, as“with suicide comes all the guilt of people around you thinking they could have done something.”
However, she claimed that getting killed might not have been the same, saying,“With somebody being murdered, nobody takes some kind of guilty responsibility.”The actress also suggests that she found who she was looking for, as she shared that they made her rethink what she was about to do.
“The person spoke very sweetly to me. He made me think about it for a month,”she said. Jolie shared that after a month, she no longer had those thoughts as things changed for good, and she was surviving again.
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Angelina Jolie’s Children Gave Her a Reason to Live
Angelina Jolie is a mother to six children, and in a recent interview withVogue, she shared that her children saved her. Talking about how motherhood helped her mental health, she said,“My entire life changed. Having children saved me — and taught me to be in this world differently.”
TheMaleficentstar has earlier opened up about feeling mental health struggles, as she shared that despite having earned so much she was still not happy. She toldABC Newsin 2003,
“I remember one of the most upsetting times in my life was after I had attained success, financial stability and I was in love, and I thought, ‘I have everything that they say you should have to be happy and I’m not happy.”
Jolie shared that if it wasn’t for her children, she would have been in a much darker place. She has six children, three adopted and three biological. She has adopted Maddox, Zahara, and Pax and shares three children, Shiloh, Knox, and Vivienne, with her ex-husband, Brad Pitt.
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Laxmi Rajput is a Senior Writer at FandomWire, with over 3,300 articles published covering film, TV, and pop culture. With a degree in Broadcast Journalism and over three years of experience in content writing, she pivoted to entertainment journalism because let’s be honest, superheroes, sitcoms, and Netflix binges are way more fun. Laxmi frequently covers Marvel, Harry Potter, Star Wars, and popular TV shows, offering both fan-first enthusiasm and thoughtful analysis. Her work often dives into Marvel theories, revisits the genius of The Big Bang Theory, or unpacks the Netflix phenomenon of Stranger Things.
