OlderAngelina Jolie’s Mom Dies at 56
Marcheline Bertrand, French actress and mother of Angelina Jolie, died of ovarian cancer in Los Angeles yesterday afternoon at Cedars-Sinai Medical Centre after a 7.5 yearlong battle with cancer. (Age 56 as reported by IMDB.) Brad Pitt, Angie, and her older brother, James Haven, were at the hospital yesterday at the time Bertrand passed away.
Bertrand raised Angie and James after divorcing their father, Jon Voight (Angie was just a toddler at the time).
Our prayers and best wishes to the Pitt and Jolie family. In lieu of flowers, please send donations to Women’s Cancer Research Institute at Cedars-Sinai.
Pictured: Angelina Jolie, with her mother Marcheline Bertrand, at her film premiere of Original Sin in Los Angeles on July 31, 2001. Angelina Jolie and her mom at LAX airport on August 4, 1998. Angelina Jolie outside the “National Art and Hobby” this past Friday.
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Estelle you are letting Alex and AG off so easy, shoot I was going to take them to Turkey with me :lol:
WebSurfer Says– well thank you lady that is nice to hear. Why don’t you post more often and same goes to MIKESMOM and every lurker that came out of lurkdom, we need you guys here at JJ’s. The more the merrier!
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Estelle Says:
January 29th, 2007 at 5:47 pm
They were driving out of Marchaline’s hotel on what seems to be the day after she passed. It’s close to the hospital.
we bamz fans rock because we are real fans that truly care and love angie in every way.and now we have a lot of her fans donating , i hope ange knows that.:)
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guli Says:
January 29th, 2007 at 5:19 pm
Hey AG and Alex, I am fine but very sad, but am so happy she has Brad and the kids and her brother to help her through this sad time, but I really hope that James can lean on Brad and Angie as well, he’s going to have a very hard time as well, those three were so close my heart just goes out to them…
So AG did you see Lainey rip into GC today? Sorry I had to sneak that in.
BTW— the other blog that I love posted this today!
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Hi Guli, ditto, and I am happy as well that she have Brad and the kids and James, and that they are also there for James as well. It is great that they have each other to lean on and to support each other in this difficult time.
Alexanderina ..Thank you for the kind words. I hope that Angie knows the we all
love and support her during this time of sorrow.
NY Lurker Says:
January 29th, 2007 at 5:50 pm
Thanks for your post and thanks to all the fans who have shared their memories. It is very inspiring to read how so many fans have been in similar situations and how they gathered strength and courage to get through it. AJ’s mother will always be with her and her brother. Her spirit will always be with them. Best wishes to BAMZS and to James.
If you are on NY time , the Actors Studio on Bravo is on with
Angelina ……. it’s a repeat….. but who gets tired of watching
her. ENJOY!!!!
Dear Caryn James,
I think you owe Angie an apology knowing her mother was dying while you wrote the article in the NYT. I’ll appreciate hearing one from you. I believe the people in the media should use their power responsibly.
Here the email address: letters@nytimes.com
and the phone number: 212 556 12 34
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Apology please Says:
January 29th, 2007 at 6:22 pm
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I don’t think it’s necessary. I am sure she is feeling pretty bad right now.
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HOTTEST COUPLE EVER Says:
January 29th, 2007 at 6:09 pm
Alexanderina ..Thank you for the kind words. I hope that Angie knows the we all
love and support her during this time of sorrow.
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awww you are welcome and I do believe that she knows
707 MIKESMOM Says: January 29th, 2007 at 6:18 pm
If you are on NY time , the Actors Studio on Bravo is on with
Angelina ……. it’s a repeat….. but who gets tired of watching
her. ENJOY!!!!
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So weird! Just turned to it right now and she’s talking about her dad bringing his girlfriend over to their house and her mom was in this running suit with two kids hanging on her (not verbatim but close). So sad.
jpf
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ntt Says:
January 29th, 2007 at 6:25 pm
Do you REALLY think she is feeling badly now? I really doubt it, I hope I am wrong though. I have become quite jaded regarding the press. It seems to many of these writers have no soul or sense of decency. Anyone who can write that type of article doesnt seem to be a person who has much feeling for anyone… Maybe I am wrong, maybe my feelings have been clouded also by visiting other blogs today and reading really horrible and unfeeling things concerning Angie’s moms passing. So much hate.. I really hoped people could let it go for a while considering this difficult time.
Thank God for JJ… this place is a sanctuary from most of the hate.
712:
aimee:
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I agree, it was James article that set Behar and company off on Friday’s “The View”.
Why shouldn’t we expect civility from people who reach millions?
I believe that all our prayers and condolences directed towards AJ and her family at this unhappy time will be like wafts of sweet breeze to cool their brows and dry their tears. Let us remember them in our prayers tonight.
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aimee Says:
January 29th, 2007 at 6:31 pm
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Like you, I am jaded regarding the press. I don’t think they ever feel bad about anything as long as they got their point across and get more money. If they looked at the people they hound/criticize as normal human beings with feelings and who make mistakes, you would see it in what they write. I just cannot deal with the hate filled sites and judgmental people right now and so have not gone to any of those sites since yesterday.
My heart goes out to Angie and her family. What sad news.
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Really??? Says:
January 29th, 2007 at 6:35
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anyone if it was mentioned on the view today?
The View was prerecorded, so tomorrow should be the first day for them. Hopefully they got a mailbox full.
I meant to ask if anyone knew if it was mentioned on the view
700 NY Lurker Says: January 29th, 2007 at 5:50 pm
My deepest condolences to Angelina and her family - May Marcheline Bertrand rest in peace.
After reading all the beautiful prayers and personal stories in this thread, I felt relieved and comforted that the Jolie-Pitts are quite lucky to have an amazing fans that are truly great human beings…
I, too, want to share my own personal experience with losses (grieving and mourning)…
I used to work as a social worker in one of the hospitals here in NYC at a Cancer Unit. The cancer patients that I’ve met vary from ages and the kind of cancer they were diagnosed with. Some of my patients died few days after my first meeting with them, which was quite difficult on my part to process their losses, even though I knew that their deaths were imminent. Other patients survived a few months after being released from the hospital, while the lucky ones went into remission and live a fruitful life for years, until the cancer returns again. Yes, Cancer is a brutal disease – it does not pick and choose who gets it or not. I am hopeful that with the advancement of technology and research, we can combat all sorts of cancer in the near future.
In dealing with losses, it is always a tough situation (I used to run a support group for grieving survivors of cancer). People grieve in many ways – Often, the grieving process depends on the individual’s strength (according to the support system, traditions, culture, norms and upbringing). In other words, to grieve on a loss is a personal experience, and therefore, there are no right or wrong ways to process it, unless of course when one is blatant to be disrespectful. In most cases, our actions are motivated by our own personal wishes and wants (obviously, based on how we want to live our own lives). So, let’s be very mindful and be sensitive, that some may expressed their sorrows and grief in ways that others may dislike. Ultimately, we cannot dictate how people should expressed themselves, it is their rights, and you have your rights as well…. Let’s just all do what is appropriate….
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Thanks for saying this. I was so self concious about what I thought would be percieved as a lack of grief not only then, but in the past two yrs, my mom’s lost 2 brothers and her baby sister to cancer, and I loved them dearly, and miss them so much, but I have yet to cry. I just tend to be stoic moreso than not at highly emotional times while I have a sister who cries at commericials!
jpf
Masina,
What a beautiful poem. Thanks for posting it.
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Really??? Says:
January 29th, 2007 at 6:41 pm
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Thanks for your reply.. I hope you are right too.
I’d like to post this poem for the Jolie-Pitts family:
DEATH BE NOT PROUD:
DEATH be not proud, though some have called thee
Mighty and dreadfull, for, thou art not so,
For, those, whom thou think’st, thou dost overthrow,
Die not, poore death, nor yet canst thou kill me.
From rest and sleepe, which but thy pictures bee, 5
Much pleasure, then from thee, much more must flow,
And soonest our best men with thee doe goe,
Rest of their bones, and soules deliverie.
Thou art slave to Fate, Chance, kings, and desperate men,
And dost with poyson, warre, and sicknesse dwell, 10
And poppie, or charmes can make us sleepe as well,
And better then thy stroake; why swell’st thou then;
One short sleepe past, wee wake eternally,
And death shall be no more; death, thou shalt die.
Be strong Angelina, I lost my mom at a very young age. At least you had all these years to build special memories with yours.
Be strong
An apology from Caryn James can start the healing process. A lot of people that post on blogs cannot form opinions of their own, they listen to this so called experts in the press. If we do not do anything, how do we expect this to stop. Anyway, I personally demanded an apology from Caryn, I sent her an e-mail already.
I just watched Inside Edition. They talked about Marcheline as someone reported in previous post.
On a lighter note, regarding the SAG red carpet, they said the dress color trend that day was GREY! They showed like 3 actresses wearing grey, just like the color of AJ’s GG gown.
I thank God that at the end of Marcheline’s life, she knew without a shadow of doubt that her one and only daughter, was surrounded by the love of Brad, Maddox, Zahara, and Shiloh, and she needn’t worry about her.
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