Angelina Jolie, the actress who last month filed for divorce from Billy Bob Thornton, is suffering from serious mental problems and needs medical treatment, her father said yesterday.
Jon Voight, the 63-year-old actor, said his daughter had a long-term mental illness which had worsened since the break-up of her marriage.
He told an American television programme that his daughter's illness could be traced back to her childhood.
"There was an incident years ago when the children were babies," he said. "I was having difficulties in my marriage and I had an affair. There was a lot of hurt and anger."
The actor, who divorced Jolie's mother, Marcheline Bertrand, when his daughter was still an infant, said he noticed the change in his child when she accompanied him on a trip to Japan soon after he and his wife had separated. "She was almost like a ghost," he said. "She wasn't there any more. She wasn't that energised person. And then I found out later many things, about the cutting, the self-mutilation."
Jolie, 27, who won an Oscar for her performance as an institutionalised sociopath in Girl, Interrupted, appeared with her father in the film Lara Croft: Tomb Raider, which he said had temporarily brought them closer together after years of estrangement.
However, since then the relationship has again deteriorated. Voight said that when he last saw her at a Hollywood party, "I ran to give her a hug, and one of her representatives stepped in my way and said 'get back'."
He tearfully begged her fans to urge her to seek medical help.
Jolie has admitted in the past to self-mutilation and nearly having a breakdown on the eve of her wedding two years ago. The marriage is understood to have ended because Thornton, 46, another actor, became jealous of the amount of time his wife was spending with a Cambodian baby, Maddox, they adopted earlier this year.
In a statement released after her father's interview, Jolie said: "Like every child, Jamie [her brother] and I would have loved to have had a warm and loving relationship with our dad. After all these years, I have determined that it is not healthy for me to be around my father, especially now that I am responsible for my own child."
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