Angelina Jolie is a name to be reckoned with. The 47-year-old actress is one of the most successful and influential stars in Hollywood. She is also the recipient of several accolades, including an Academy Award and three Golden Globe Awards. Apart from acting, Jolie is also into humanitarian work.
But things didn’t come easy to the ‘Salt‘ star as she suffered from depression in her early years. She has also talked about her broken family and her father cheating on her mother. So there was a time when she actually hired a hitman at the age of 22. But what was her purpose?
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Angelina Jolie Once Hired A Hitman
Angelina Jolie had a tumultuous phase when she was in her teens and early 20s. She suffered from depression, family issues, and drug addiction. All this forced her to hire a contract killer once.
A series of traumatic events mixed with her mental health issues forced Jolie to the point that she hired a killer to end her life. It was because of the guilt attached to suicide.
“This is going to sound insane but there was a time I was going to hire somebody to kill me,” she once said. “With suicide comes all the guilt of people around you thinking they could have done something,” Jolie added.
She further explained, ”With somebody being murdered, nobody takes some kind of guilty responsibility.” Jolie then mentioned the ease of finding such people. “They’re not that hard to find in New York.”
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The Plan That Thankfully Didn’t Go Well
Jolie also opened up about how common suicidal thoughts are in young people. “As insane as it sounds, I think a lot of people consider suicide when they’re young.”
The ‘Maleficent‘ star said she didn’t want her family to feel they had let her down. “I was very aware that so many people around me, like my mother, would feel as though they didn’t give enough or do enough, if I’d taken my own life. So my solution to that was if someone else had taken my life – like in a ‘robbery’ – then it would be murder and it wouldn’t be that anyone would feel they’d let me down.”
Jolie hired the hitman and planned to “take out cash over a certain amount of time, so there wasn’t a big chunk in my bank account” to the killer. But then something happened.
“He was a decent enough person and asked if I could think about it and call him again in two months,” she recalled the hitman trying to change her mind. “Something changed in my life and I figured I’d stick it out.”
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