Sometimes it's hard to remember that before Angelina Jolie became a
mother of six and one of Hollywood's highest-profile humanitarians, she
was a troubled upstart living her life on the edge.
But Jolie herself hasn't forgotten, and she's telling "60 Minutes"
that she's fortunate to have made it out of her adolescence alive.
"I went through heavy, darker times and I survived them," the
36-year-old Academy Award-winner said in an interview that airs this
Sunday. "I didn't die young, so I'm very lucky. There are other artists and people who didn't survive certain things."
When pressed on the subject, Jolie held back but said something sure to let curious imaginations run wild.
"[There's] nothing I want to go into a lot of detail about, but
people can imagine I did the most dangerous and the worst. For many
reasons, I shouldn't be here. You just think [of] those times when you
came too close to too many dangerous things, too many chances taken,
[going] too far."
Before she settled down with Brad Pitt in 2005, Jolie had a
reputation for dark behavior that her eccentric personality hardly
refuted. The daughter of "Midnight Cowboy"
actor Jon Voight, Jolie survived a troubled adolescence, to say the
least: Before becoming a star in her own right, she often cut herself
and admitted to experimenting with "just about every drug possible," including heroin.
Having cleaned up a bit as she entered her twenties, Jolie still
continued to raise eyebrows, whether it was wearing a vial of blood from
her then-husband Billy Bob Thornton around her neck, kissing her
brother on the lips in public, or talking about her briefly considered
dream job of being a mortician.
Even now, as the mother of six, Jolie says she hasn't completely
abandoned her darker urges. "I'm still a bad girl, I still have that
side of me… it's just in its place now," she said. "It belongs to Brad."
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