Washington
(ANI):
Veteran
actor
Jon
Voight
insists
that
he
is
'heartbroken" over
the
way
daughter
Angelina
Jolie
and
son
James
Haven
portray
him
as
a
'bad
guy"
in
the
media.
The
'Anaconda"
actor"s
outburst
comes
on
the
heels
of
Haven"s
interview
with
Marie
Claire
for
the
mag"s
November
issue,
in
which
he
said
that
he
found
it
difficult
to
forgive
Voight
for
putting
his
mother
Marcheline
Bertrand
through
'years
of
mental
abuse".
"I
wish
him
well,
and
I
hope
he
finds
peace—but
he
put
my
mom
through
years
of
mental
abuse,
and
it
made
me
care
especially
for
abandoned
women
and
children.
So,
that's
my
religion—helping
widows
and
orphans," E!Online
quoted
Haven,
as
telling
the
mag.
Now
Voight,
in
a
handwritten
letter
obtained
by
E!
News
states
that
he
found
it
"heartbreaking"
that
his
children
"want
to
paint
a
bad
guy
portrait
of
me."
And,
he
blames
this
on
his
former
wife.
"I
feel
it
comes
from
their
inability
to
let
go
of
years
of
programmed
anger
from
their
mother,
who
understandably
felt
quite
hurt
when
we
divorced," he
writes.
"In
all
truth,
I
tried
to
give
him
and
their
mother
continuous
love
and
support
and
large
sums
of
money.
"God
knows,
for
years
I've
tried
to
mend
this
relationship.
Perhaps
the
trauma
of
their
mother's
passing
has
made
it
worse.
I
continuously
send
them
my
heart
and
love
and
am
always
available
to
them
for
whatever
they
need
from
me."
Voight
and
Jolie,
who
briefly
reconciled
in
the
late
1990s,
have
not
been
on
speaking
terms
ever
since
her
divorce
from
Billy
Bob
Thornton
in
2002.
At
the
time,
Voight
went
on
TV,
and
urged
his
daughter
to
get
help
for
"serious
mental
problems"
and
said
that
she
wasn't
responding
to
his
attempts
to
get
in
touch
with
her
because
she
knew
he
was
"trying
to
reach
her
to
get
help."