Not lengthy earlier than her 2000 wedding ceremony to second husband Thornton, 69 (she separated from her first husband, Hackers costar Jonny Lee Miller, 51, in 1997 after lower than two years of marriage), Jolie informed late interview present host Larry King she’d suffered from despair. One terrifying incident concerned her “going loopy” when she couldn’t find Thornton.
She mentioned she was informed “you’re having a nervous breakdown”, and was admitted to the UCLA Neuropsychiatric Institute the place she was positioned on a three-day maintain.
The Woman, Interrupted Oscar winner additionally confessed her plans to die by suicide – or by the hands of one other particular person. In 2001, she informed Rolling Stone she’d needed to make use of a knife and sleeping drugs to finish her life, however started to query whether or not she may pull it off.
Jolie defined: “That is going to sound so insane, however there was a time once I realized I used to be going to have to rent any person to kill me … With suicide comes the guilt of all of the individuals round you considering that they may have finished one thing.”
She reportedly met with a person she was informed may do the job, who requested her to take a while to suppose over what she was doing.
The actress clarified: “And [after] a month, different issues modified in my life and I used to be surviving once more.”