People know Angelina Jolie as the other half of the most beautiful Hollywood couple alive, thanks to Brad Pitt, the mother of six beautiful children, and an active ambassador of the United Nations who has been championing women's rights from the war fields of Syria to the dangerous drylands of Sudan.
A few would be able to recall Jolie's troubled past. A video of Jolie's former self had recently emerged, bringing memories of Jolie's struggle with drug addiction, Daily Mail reported.
The video, which was sold to National Enquirer, showed a strung-out Jolie in the 1990s while talking to someone over the phone. Several reports say Jolie might have been talking to her father, actor Jon Voight.
Convicted drug dealer, Franklin Meyer, claimed that the video was shot with Jolie's consent in 1999, and that it was recorded right after she had taken drugs. The location of the video was supposedly taken at Jolie's Manhattan home after Meyer had come in to re-supply her with cocaine and heroine.
A blonde Jolie is seen in the video pacing back and forth, and appeared to be distressed while talking to someone. Her "eyes are bloodshot and hollow, her arms emaciated and scratched," said Daily Mail.
The video also showed the typical surroundings of a drug addict, as trash bags and soda cans litter the floor and coffee table, the British tabloid observed.
Meyer was quoted as saying to the Enquirer, "Angie was a client of mine for several years. I sold her heroin and cocaine. One day she called me up and wanted me to drop by her place. That was her way of telling me she wanted me to bring her drugs. At the time, I had just bought a video camera and decided to bring it along. When I arrived, I just gave her the drugs and then she gave me the money."
Check out the video here.
Although it was inconclusive as to who Jolie was speaking to in the video, the conversation appeared to be about her family -- her brother James and her late mother Marcheline Bertrand. Bertrand later died due to cancer.
"You know, I don't want this to ruin our relationship. And I don't want it to be this thing where, you know, we go out to do something or to dinner or go shopping and you know, or her coming out to visit, and not buying something for herself," Jolie had reportedly said to her caller on the video.
A source told the New York Daily News that the video would be of no shock to Jolie, and that it was simply a marketing ploy as the publication outlet itself has been making organizational changes.
"This Angelina story is ancient history. Pictures like this have been floating around for years. The Enquirer has run pictures like this before. They're just revisiting old news that they think people have forgotten about and slapping a big ‘exclusive' on it. The video was probably floating around back then, too. Thing is, nobody cared about video back then," the source said.
Although there is no word from Jolie's camp about her old video, another source said that it is highly unlikely that the actress would be issuing a statement about the matter as she has addressed it already back in 2011 in a "60 Minutes" interview.
"I don't understand why they're running this now. When the 2010 version of this story ran, that was a follow-up on an even earlier iteration of the same story," the New York Daily News source said.
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