Brad Pitt consults Jon Voight on split: Veteran actor likens Angelina Jolie to her ‘erratic’ mom
Brad Pitt has sought the counsel of Angelina Jolie’s father, actor Jon Voight, as the estranged Hollywood celebrity couple settles the consequences of their bitter divorce.
Sources close to the Jolie-Pitt household said Pitt, 52, maintained a close relationship with Voight, 77, since 2005 after he met Jolie, 41, while filming the film “Mr. and Mrs. Smith.”
In one of the men’s conversations, Voight allegedly likened the “Maleficent” start to her “erratic” mother, the late Marcheline Bertrand, who died of ovarian cancer in 2007. She was 56.
“She is really pissed at her dad,” an insider told US magazine. “She is really bothered that he is talking to Brad. Angelina is speaking to [Voight] but not a lot and telling him hardly anything because she doesn’t trust him.”
Jolie and her brother James Haven were raised by an army of nannies after Bertrand and Voight divorced in 1980.
One of Jolie’s childhood nanny, Krisann Morel, had warned the actress about cutting Pitt off of her children’s life, saying that it was exactly the mistake Bertrand made with her father. (Read: Angelina Jolie’s nanny warns actress: ‘Don’t repeat the same mistakes of your mother’)
The United Nations Goodwill Ambassador and the “Allied” star are fighting over legal custody of their six children Maddox, Pax, Zahara, Shiloh, and twins Knox and Vivienne.
The former head security of the Jolie-Pitt family revealed that the security and safety of the children comes first for the famous couple. (Read: Ex-SAS soldier shares how he had ‘fathered’ Brangelina’s children)
“Angie and Brad are very worried about who goes near their children,” said Mark Billingham, a former Special Air Service (SAS) agent of the British Army who now hosts reality television show “SAS: Who Dares Wins” that airs in the United Kingdom on Channel 4.