Angelina Jolie’s dark past: knife obsession, murder-for-hire plot

Not long before her 2000 marriage to second husband Thornton, 69 (she divorced her first husband, Hackers costar Jonny Lee Miller51, in 1997 after less than two years of marriage), Jolie told the late interview host Larry King she suffered from depression. In one terrifying incident, she went ‘mad’ when she couldn’t find Thornton.

She said she was told “you’re having a nervous breakdown,” and was admitted to the UCLA Neuropsychiatric Institute, where she was held for three days.

The Girl, interrupted Oscar winner also confessed that she planned to commit suicide – or at the hands of someone else. She told it in 2001 Rolling stone she had wanted to use a knife and sleeping pills to end her life, but began to wonder if she would succeed.

Jolie explained: “This is going to sound so crazy, but there was a time when I realized I had to hire someone to kill me… With suicide comes the guilt of all the people around you who thought they could have done that .” done something.”

She reportedly met a man who she was told could do the job, who asked her to take some time to think about what she was doing.

The actress clarified, “And [after] a month later other things in my life changed and I was able to survive again.”