Here are 11 celeb kids who are (or were) estranged from their famous parents: Content warning: This post mentions domestic abuse, child abuse, and drug use. In 2002, Voight publicly acknowledged his and Jolie's estrangement during an interview with Access Hollywood in which he brought up that Jolie had "unspecified" mental health issues and pleaded with her fans and handlers to see that she received help. He claimed he was "brokenhearted.
..because I've been trying to reach my daughter and get her help, and I have failed, and I'm sorry.
Really, I haven't come forward and addressed the serious mental problems she has spoken about so candidly to the press over the years, but I've tried behind the scenes in every way." At the time, he said he hadn't yet met his grandson, Maddox, whom Jolie and ex-husband, Billy Bob Thornton , had recently adopted. "That is the greatest pain," he said.
"I'd love to help out with the baby." Voight then slammed Jolie and Thornton's marriage, stating, "I never had the feeling that they were going to make it because of both of their serious problems, and they've both been very public about them, so I never really held out any hope." Jolie admitted in interviews that she was dealing with mental health issues but did not say that they were the cause of her rift with her father, nor did she confirm that Voight had reached out to help her.
Shortly after Voight's inflammatory interview, Angelina legally changed her last name from Voight to her middle name,.