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I find the irony..amazing!
Jon Voight Holds Special Tribute for Marcheline Bertrand
Friday September 7, 2007
Fame Pictures
Friday September 7, 2007
Fame Pictures
Jon Voight paid tribute to his ex-wife Marcheline Bertrand, the former French actress and mother of Angelina Jolie, by planting a rose bush in her honor earlier this month.
Bertrand died on January 27, 2007, at the age of 56, after a long battle with ovarian cancer. Voight did not attend the funeral.
On September 1, the actor arrived at Santa Monica, California, park with a potted plant, soil, and shovel in hand and led the planting and watering of the ceremonial rose bush.
Voight, 68, and a small collection of Bertrand’s family and friends held hands and shared their memories of the actress.
The group placed a card signed by Voight, Bertrand's sister Debbie, brother Raleigh and others, including Native American activist John Trudell. Bertrand was executive producer on the 2006 documentary Trudell, which chronicled Trudell's political views, poems, and travels.
Voight and Bertrand married when she was 21 and divorced when Jolie was just a toddler. In interviews Jolie has said she was upset by the fact that her father was unfaithful to her mother. They have been estranged since 2002 when Voight gave an interview to Access Hollywood saying that he wanted his daughter to “get help” for “serious mental problems.”
Jolie responded by legally erasing her surname, Voight, and banning him from seeing her children. "After all these years, I have determined that it is not healthy for me to be around my father," she said at the time, "especially now that I am responsible for my own child."
“I am my mother’s daughter,” Jolie recently told the Times of London. “My love of children, my values, caring about what goes on in the world, all of that comes from her. She was the most wonderful woman and a fantastic role model for me. I miss her terribly every day. I try to raise my children the way that my mother raised me. I didn’t really have a father around.”
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Posted by Noelle Hancock at 4:25 pm ET
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11:57 AM
Anonymous Says:
2:39 PM
Anonymous Says:
I really don't understand comments like so what if he cheated-he may have had reasons---WHAT??? all a person has to do if feeling that their partner is not giving them what they need in a marriage is DIVORCE that person!! There is NO EXCUSE for cheating! Its a terrible hurting childish irresponsible CHOICE made by one person and not excusable for whatever whiny reason that person comes up with.
11:45 PM
Anonymous Says:
I hope she will learn to forgive her dad the sake of her children. She grew up without her dad, I hope she won't let her children grow up without their grandfather too.
6:18 AM
Anonymous Says:
Wow people, I think many of you need to see a therapist. Get a life and stopping wasting time trying to play therapist to Angelina Jolie.
9:22 AM
Anonymous Says:
I believe she has a massive insecurity complex form the effects of not having a father figure in her life. All this rejection has cast a shadow over her life. Consequently she likes to live on the edge in a destructive and flirting with danger sort of way. She is beautiful and she knows that is her weapon at attaining pretty much what she wants. However underneath i suspect quite a emotionally damanged person is living. It would be interesting to see what person she is when she ages and no longer has her beauty.
9:45 PM
Anonymous Says:
Her mother was born in Illinios. Did she have to go to France to act? She was American.
8:46 PM
Anonymous Says:
What a bunch of idiots those of you bashing Angelina are! As if you, or any of us, really know anything about her life, her relationship with Brad(or the timing of it, either emotional or physical),or with her father. When it comes to Jon Voigt,I think he is probably seriously regretting some of his actions in the past as he gets older and finds himself alone. His earlier appearances on talk shows to publicly bash Angie were nothing more than the pathetic attempts of an aging actor to get attention--at his daughter's expense. And for those of you who think Angie should let her dad have access to her kids no matter what--would you actually let someone who calls you, their mother, crazy and unbalanced have anything to do with YOUR kids? I would certainly hope not. Kids don't need that kind of turmoil.
4:35 PM
Anonymous Says:
dear red duck
not every mother turned her kids on their exes, my mother never did that my parents have been divorced for 12yrs and my father has been with his girlfriend for 17yrs proving that my father was cheating on my mother for 5yrs before they called it quits, I dont hate my father for that.I do hate that he was there for his girlfriends kids they got to see him day and night, i was lucky just to see him at night when he would come home at 2 or 3 in the morning. But you know life goes on. I dont hate my father i hate the "angelina jolie" who took him away from his family.
4:22 PM
Anonymous Says:
My father cheated on my mother. but my mother always told us that he was our father no matter what he did to her,that we should always respect him, Angelina tries to portray a saint but shes far from it, get over yourself hunny your a home wrecker just like your father. lets just hope you dont get tired of brad and cheat on him and have your kids hate you for the rest of your life. "WHAT GOES AROUND COMES AROUND"
3:58 AM
red duck, etal Says:
Every mother that has ever lived has turned her children against the
father of her children upon divorce/seperation. Marsh was a saint,
however.
plume du rouge
7:15 AM
Anonymous Says:
With Jon being so absent in their lives, how come Jamie and Ange grew up so damaged? James is a screaming queen (there's certainly no SHAME in that, - it's just a little different- he's also VERY creepy, I think ) and Ange has had (and probably still HAS) many sexual/kinky perversions. She's a self confessed cutter, blood fetishing bi-sexual. Could it be that their saintly mother (God rest her) brought them up to be hateful and kinky? J and A have even kissed PUBLICALLY in a very incestuous fashion; I really do think that there was a fair bit of damage done in childhood upbringing, thus leaving Marcheline the major perpetrator. Why would Jon and Marche's family even be seen together at a memorial, if HE was such a monster? You'd think that they wouldn't want anything to do with him. Or maybe they were mature enough to forgive.......
6:30 AM
Deeley Says:
Angie? Grow up and forgive! You don't have the record of a saint yourself. You're proving yourself to be a self-centred, egomaniacal, 'holier than thou' brat. Please show your kids the example of kindness, forgiveness, and humility.
They have been given the privelidge of your money, so why not give them the gifts of simplicity and stability. Your P.R. manouvers are a poor substitute for a grandfather's presence, the values of a stable homelife, and a moderate lifestyle.
They'll end up with just as much hatred for YOU, as you have for your father. I really like a lot about you, but you seriously need therapy. BTW, when are you going to spit Brad out? You must be getting bored by now - yep, you have a really impressive history with men...just what chidren need in a mother - a maneater.
1:07 AM
Getoveryourself Says:
For Angelina Jolie to claim that she is such a good role model ,and parent, is she going to tell her children that it is okay to not speak to Brad Pitt if they split up? Obviously it will be okay because she set the stage for that. Also, shouldn't you try to teach your children how to forgive (maybe not always forget)? It would be a good lesson, and a great experience for her children to have one more person in there lives to love them unconditionally, which it seems her father has always done, and is still trying to do. EVERYONE makes mistakes in life, we are only human. Forgiveness is a really important characteristic to have.
5:54 AM
Anonymous Says:
Marcheline's family and closest of friends attended the Memorial.....that should tell everyone that what Marcheline's children have said in interviews, and what Marcheline claimed in her will is owed to her is not necesarily "Reality"
From,
Someone who knows and was there.
2:05 PM
Anonymous Says:
To 11:38 pm Interesting... I agree with you totally. Skinny Angie did it twice, just like she is saying her father ran around on her mother. What a freakin skinny hypocrite.
9:51 PM
Anonymous Says:
From her comments in the story, Angelina Jolie still sounds horridly angry at her father - really mean and nasty, as if she deliberately wants to hurt him, the way he hurt her. STILL ... after all these years. She quite clearly hasn't healed from anything. All that running aroun just helps her temporarily avoid her problems, not deal with them. What a shame ... whatever she doesn't heal will come out in her own children.
3:06 PM
Anonymous Says:
Can't you all see that that's not Marcheline's family? That's the cast of National Treasure, one of them is Nic' Cage The other is Diane Kruger and another one of them is
Justin Bartha.
2:59 PM
Anonymous Says:
He's not at a funeral, he's working on the new National Treasure movie.
10:39 PM
Anonymous Says:
At least he cared.
Angelina didn't even spend her mother's last christmas's with her.
if her mother had been from Africa on the other hand, Angelina would have been right by her bed side for Christmas with the kids and a camera crew
2:42 PM
Anonymous Says:
As far as honoring your mother and father, parents do f-ed up things too. They should be held just as responsible. I think you shouuld be stoned to death KAT. Go read your Bible and pretend that everything in the world is great.
2:25 PM
Anonymous Says:
goodluck john voight, you blew once again you chance of reconciling with angie. why release this event and pic for Pr purpose???
1:22 PM
KAT Says:
ANGELINA IS A HYPOCRITE AND SHOULD BE STONED TO DEATH FOR TREATING HER FATHER THAT WAY. WHATEVER HAPPENED TO HONOR THY FATHER AND THY MOTHER. WHAT COMES AROUND GOES AROUND ANJELINA
11:36 AM
Anonymous Says:
why are you defending a man who
a.) walked out on a 6 months
b.) caused his ex-wife to have a miscarriage - while he came over to her house with another woman yet
c.) a cult member
d.) a womanizer
e.) a man still having to pay $180,000 spousal support but will show up on a memorial...while he could pay Marcheline when she was alive but surely he can plant a rose.
f.) no father material or role model to his kids while they are growing up but he sure was good at criticizing them as adults. You would think that a man who critize like he did on AH...surely was a good father and 100% committed to his kids all the way from childhood to adulthood. (Not that I think what he did is right but I think given that he found it important to go on national tv..then he must have been a good father)
7:15 AM
Anonymous Says:
I'm not impressed of him.
4:42 AM
someone Says:
I think Jon was absolutely right when he said she was mental, she is mental, as far as him cheating on her mother...so what, hes not the first or the last man to cheat, shes with a man right now, that cheated on his wife...get over yourself Angelina..as far as him calling Shiloh "shakira", it was Zahara, he forgot her name..who can blame him? He never was introduced to any of those kids...
3:39 AM
Kathleen Says:
Your facts are a little off. Do you actually research your stories?
Jolie was quoted in an interview explaining that she and Voight became estranged in the fall 2001 after he handed her a letter which she said contained hateful criticism of her as a person while on her way to her first land mine mission. She was scared and nervous. Voight was critical of her wanting to work with the UN. he was opposed to her traveling for them. After reading the letter on the plane Jolie said she decided to stop this continuing history of emotional abuse. She said her times with her dad ended up being fraught with emotional turmoil and pain and she just couldn't keep repeating the cycle.
In March 2002, on the eve of adopting Maddox she was still unsure whether Cambodia would let Maddox join her in Namibia cause Cambodia was rethinking its adoption policies. Voight publicly announced the adoption and Jolie was terrified the surrounding publicity would threaten it and she would lose Maddox. She rebutted that she and her father had not spoken in months. In June 2002, Jolie filed to legally drop Voight from her name. It wasn't until August 2002 that Voight said on TV he wanted his daughter to get help. Again, risking her adoption of Maddox. I thought that perhaps her father's statement was retaliation for her dropping his name. Who knows?
If his presence in her life has mostly been a source of pain for her and he keeps reverting to his past behaviors, it seems perfectly healthy to not want to repeat this with her family. It's not as if she grew up with this man in her home. She didn't even call him dad. Some relationships are best left alone for a while. You never know what will happen but its not for anyone else to judge.
1:01 AM
Anonymous Says:
I would say he is pregressing well if he followed up on this memorial with paying up his spousal support of $180,000. Publicize that too..then we are talking...
12:42 AM
Anonymous Says:
I never thought I would defend Angelina, but her father shouldn't have turned on her publicly like that. His own daughter! That's disloyalty. She was right to completely cut off all communication with him. Buh bye, jerk, flussshhhhhhh!
12:19 AM
Jolee Says:
11:38 PM Interesting... Says:
I totally agree!! She said in some interview that she could never get involved with a married man because her dad did that to her mom and she wouldn't want to be responsible for anything like that. Its seems like she's only interested in men she can't have. Once she gets them, she bores quickly.
12:16 AM
Jolee Says:
9:46, 9:48, 10:19: Her family was there with him. I'm sure there's more to their story than any of us know.
