Angelina Jolie’s Mom Dies at 56

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kidi Says:

January 28th, 2007 at 7:01 pm
I agree that E! and Ryan Douchebag S. should send an ENORMOUS donation in Marcheline’s name to the charity mentioned. In fact, let’s e-mail them tell them to do so.
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Omg. I am crying right now!
My thoughts and prayers for Angie and her family.

Thank you Jared for the posting the sad news. My deepest condolences to Angie, Brad, James and all their families! My prayers shall be with Marcheline. May God bless them all at this time!

Hey everybody- How are you guys?I read all of the post and I feel your sadness.
I hope that you guys can lift your spirits and feel better. My sincerest wish is for the family to make it through the tough days and nights ahead. I am so very glad that Angie and her brother have Mr. Brad Pitt in their lives. We know what he is for ~Angie. I believe he is like a brother to James. I know that Ms. bertrand was a beautiful lady inside and out. Her daughter Angie is a testament to that. I am thankful that God chose Brad pitts arms to comfort Angie,he is a gentle ,tender,thoughtful man. I hope that Maddox is okay,he is old enough ,I think to know what’s happening. God willing Angie’s strength and the love of Brad and her beautiful children with lift her spirits and help her celebrate the life of her mother. Losing your mom is so very sad and hard.
I wish her well~
God bless all of them.
Peace~

There is absolutely nothing phony about being angry that Angelina got dragged through the dirt by every magazine and celebrity news show about her supposed bitchiness and coolness when her mother was days away from dying. She’s too discreet to blab her traumas to the world–unlike others we know–and for all we know she could have gotten some bad news moments before she got on the red carpet. Who knows. I admire her a great deal and I hated seeing her badmouthed.

I know how it feels … just lost my mother to the same cancer two and half years ago. My heart goes out to her and the family members … and yes, the heart does go on…

My deepest condonlences go out to Angelina, Brad, Maddox, Zahara, Shiloh and James Haven. May God Bless them all!

my deepest symphaty to to bereaved family. May they find strength and courage to face this sad day in their lives. Godbless them.
RIP marcheline

Having a mother who is ill and going on to live her life like the way Angie did is very admirable! I don’t think I would be strong like her to carry on. My mother is my best friend, second to my husband, so I don’t know what I would do. I am sure that I would be crying most of the time! I will pray for Marcheline’s soul. May she rest in peace.

I FOUND THIS ARTICLE, MAYBE SOME OF YOU HAVE READ IT ALREADY BUT FOR THOSE WHO HAVEN’T ITS ABOUT ANGELINA’S RELATIONSHIP WITH HER MUM.

She’s never been “America’s Sweetheart.” Nor “The Girl Next Door.” America’s sweetheart doesn’t have tattoos. The girl next door doesn’t carry around vials of Billy Bob’s blood.

No, let Julia Roberts and Meg Ryan play those dull roles, ready-made for Oprah audiences.

Angelina Jolie is an original, despite being morphed into “Brangelina” of late. While the “Pretty Woman” and the cuddly Cupie Doll of yore have been in arrested development, Jolie, now 31, has evolved with each year.

From 2000’s “Girl, Interrupted” - in which she nabbed an Oscar at the age of 25 for her moving performance as a drug-addled teen - to her latest role as mother and U.N. ambassador (and yes, the girlfriend of Brad Pitt) - Jolie has grown from a wild Goth provocateur to a woman of the world and expectant mother.

But as the pictures on these pages show, she was once a big-eyed, sweet-faced teenager with a past that has seldom been reported on - until now.

These intimate snapshots come courtesy of Allan Mezo, a former boyfriend of Jolie’s mother, Marcheline Bertrand, a French actress who is currently battling cancer. Jolie has repeatedly called her 55-year-old mother - as ravishing as Angelina in her heyday - “her best friend.”

Mezo, 61, a merchandise broker, dated Marcheline and helped raise Angelina - or “Angie,” as he calls her - shortly after Marcheline split from Jon Voight. They divorced in 1978. Angelina and her father seldom speak.

No matter. Through her paternal troubles, her eccentric marriage in 1999 to Billy Bob Thornton, her trysts with women, and her controversial onstage kiss with brother, James Haven Voight, Jolie was just fine. At least she is now.

According to Mezo, her mother can take credit for that. She sent him these pictures, shot over a holiday in 1983, to let him know that the young Angelina and Jamie were growing up healthily enough.

Marcheline sent him the snapshots “out of the blue” 10 years after their breakup, Mezo says.
“Angelina is 13!” she writes in the accompanying letter obtained by Page Six. “She is studying to be an actress and a playwright . . . My children have grown up quite splendidly. Jamie is 15 and aspiring toward a career in film marketing and distribution. He also loves basketball!”

Mezo says that Jolie’s mom set her on the path to caring for the less fortunate.

“She was so kind, so caring, so generous - she was honestly like an angel,” he says. “Her children meant everything to her. Of all the people I have known in my life, she was easily one of the best. And Angie has got that from her. That is why she does so much work for the U.N. and wants to adopt needy children. I think all the good things you see in Angie, she got from her mother.” Mezo met Marcheline in the late 1970s in New York. It was a passionate affair, and Mezo says he eventually moved in with the family, which was living in Manhattan. When they migrated to Los Angeles, he came with them, acting, he says, as Jolie’s unofficial stepfather.

“I cared for them all so much,” he says. “But we met just at the wrong time. She was still married to Jon Voight. She told me that he had not treated her well, and I think there were other women involved. She found it so painful and it made it hard for her to trust another man.”

In the personal letter, Marcheline expresses sorrow for dropping him. “Perhaps I was just in too much emotional pain back then to appreciate you,” she writes. “The truth is, I never would have made it through that difficult time without you.”

Mezo responded to the letter, but he never heard from Marcheline again. “I want her to know how proud I am of her for how Angie appears to have turned out,” he says.

We’ll second that.

RIP Ms. Bertrand. May the good Lord keep you.
Condolences to Angie, James, Brad and the rest of the family.