Angelina Jolie's brother James Haven has been going back-and-forth with his and Angie's much-maligned father Jon Voight. Here's what JH had to say about Voight in an interview with Marie Claire:
I don't want to constantly berate my father... but he put my mom through years of mental abuse, and it made me care especially for abandoned women and children.That's my religion - helping widows and orphans.
Abandoned women are widows? So if a man dies in some kind of freak accident say, that still counts as abandonment? I ain't gonna argue with you James, cause frankly I don't want you haunting my nightmares. Okay I'm gonna take you to task a little bit though - that "I don't want to say bad things about my father, but he's an asshole" bit is getting a tad shopworn. Seriously - what did that guy ever do that was so bad? You and Angie like dropping little hints that he was just this mean dude but you're never specific. So did he rape you with a toilet plunger or not? Cause if it was just the usual old "he was never there for us" crap - sorry hon, but join the club.
Anyhoo, old Jon Voight still has enough spunk left to come back at his ungrateful kids when they attack him. Here's what the old fart said to Life & Style:
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.
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 need from me.
You're always sending them your heart? What the hell are they supposed to do with that shriveled-up old thing, play hacky sack? Oh, I do like the honesty though - about all the money you sent them over the years. Cause let's face it, that's the crux of this whole thing. Not so much for Angie cause she's got her own money but James - he doesn't have a lot going on I'd venture to say, so he's probably just bitter that the old man doesn't cough up as much as he used to. If James is so hard-up, maybe he should consider trying to "help" a better class of widow - they can be very giving if buttered up in the right way. Course, it's probably not that easy to get in the door when you look like Dracula's inbred, hemophiliac cousin.
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