Cast member Angelina Jolie poses at the premiere of "Maleficent"
Cast member Angelina Jolie poses at the premiere of "Maleficent" at El Capitan theatre in Hollywood, California May 28, 2014. The movie opens in the U.S. on May 30. REUTERS

Angelina Jolie was “really horny” after she split from ex-husband Billy Bob Thornton. Before meeting and falling in love with Brad Pitt, the 39-year-old Hollywood star and philanthropist had been looking for someone to satisfy her.

According to TV presenter Pat O’Brien, he had a run-in with Jolie in an elevator of a posh Beverly Hills hotel 2002 when she has just become single following her separation from Thornton.

“I said, ‘What’s up, baby?’ And she said with a wink, ‘I’m trying to find this guy I kind of know because I’m really horny right now,” O’Brien wrote in his memoir “I’ll Be Right Back After This.”

He jokingly offered himself to Jolie, and the two laughed.

The identity of the guy Jolie was looking for wasn’t revealed.

Jolie and Thornton wed in 2000, but separated in 2002 a few months after adopting Maddox. Their divorce was finalised in March 2003. She then found love with Pitt during the production of their blockbuster flick “Mr & Mrs Smith” in 2005. They now have six children together, and are engaged to be married.

O’Brien had interviewed the Academy Award-winning actress several times before their encounter at the L’Ermitage Hotel.

In August 2002, he had also interviewed Jon Voight, Jolie’s father, who was apparently heartbroken about his then 27-year-old daughter’s strange behaviour.

“I want to talk to you about my daughter. I’m broken hearted,” Voight allegedly told O’Brien privately. “That’s the reason I’m here. I feel I can trust you as a journalist.”

Voight then had a TV interview to discuss Jolie’s “psychic pain” and “serious mental problems.”

O’Brien continued, “If Voight felt that he was going to win his daughter back by this TV confessional, he was sadly mistaken.”

He was correct. Jolie’s already strained relationship with her father became almost non-existent. Their feud only ended after eight years.