Angelina Jolie's father Jon Voight responded Tuesday to his son James Haven's comments on him made to Marie Claire saying I find it "heartbreaking that my children want to paint a bad guy portrait of me." Seen here is Angelina Jolie in a file photo at the 33rd Annual Deauville American Film Festival, Deauville, France (9/9/2007). Photo Credit: Pixplanete / PR Photos17 October 2007 (Sawf News) - Angelina Jolie's father Jon Voight, an oscar-winner and four-time nominee actor, responded Tuesday to his son James Haven's comments on him made to Marie Claire saying I find it "heartbreaking that my children want to paint a bad guy portrait of me."
The 68-year-old actor divorced Angelina and her brother James Haven's mother Marcheline Bertrand in 1978 following a two-year separation.
James Haven told Marie Claire for its November issue, "I don't want to constantly berate my father - I wish him well, and I hope he finds peace - but he put my mom through years of mental abuse, and it made me care especially for abandoned women and children."
"So that's my religion - helping widows and orphans," he added.
In response Jon told Life & Style:
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"I find it very heartbreaking that my children want to paint a bad guy portrait of me. I feel it comes from their inability to let go of years of programmed anger from their mother, who understandably felt quite hurt when we divorced.
"In all truth, I tried to give him and their mother continuous love and support and large sums of money. God knows, for years I've tried to mend this relationship," Jon says.
"Perhaps the trauma of their mother's passing has made it worse. I continuously send them my heart and love and am always available to them for whatever they may need from me."
Angelina, 32, has refused to allow her father to be a part of her or her children's lives since he said he believed she had serious mental issues following her divorce from Billy Bob Thorton in 2003.
She fumed: "He said some very ugly things to me about what he thought I was like as a person and how I was conducting my life. I don't have to listen to what he says. I don't have to care. And I don't have to have him in my life."
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