Actress Angelina Jolie has repressed her dark side but never really escaped it. She told CBS’s 60 Minutes, “I went through heavy, darker times and I survived them. I didn’t die young, so I’m very lucky. There are other artists and people who didn’t survive certain things.”
When asked to elaborate, Angelina, 36, said, “Nothing I want to go into a lot of detail about, but I think people can imagine that I did the most dangerous and I did the worst,” says Jolie, who’s raising six children with partner Brad Pitt, 47.
Angelina has previously admitted she experimented with drugs, alcohol and self-mutiliation as a way to numb her existential emptiness. She cut herself and jumped out of airplanes, “trying to find something new to push up against” because she felt “caged.” In her teens and early twenties, Angelina admits she was self-destructive, experimenting with drugs and going through bouts of severe depression. She has openly spoken of her teenage self-loathing, which led to cutting herself with knives, her fascination with death (and even considered a career as a funeral director), thoughts of suicide, and undefined feelings of frustration.
Looking back on this period in 2003, “I used to think I was unstable… I could never figure out what it was. I couldn’t sleep at night, and I always wanted to be somewhere else, and I have a window tattooed, this little box, and it’s because wherever I was, I wanted to be somewhere else…”
“I’m still a bad girl,” she says. “I still have that side of me. It’s just in its place now. It belongs to Brad…or our adventures.”
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