Jon Voight, crazy or concerned father?

NY DAILY NEWS/RUSH AND MOLLOY.....

Jon Voight broke down in tears on TV last night in a plea to his daughter, Angelina Jolie, to 'get help' for what he said are 'serious mental problems.'

In a shocking appearance on 'Access Hollywood,' the actor said: 'I've been trying to reach my daughter and get her help, and I have failed and I'm sorry.'

Voight said that, up till now, 'I haven't come forward and addressed the serious mental problems she has spoken about so candidly to the press over the years, but I've tried behind the scenes in every way.... They're very serious symptoms of real problems ... real illness.'

Voight didn't spell out those problems on the show, but he blamed Jolie's handlers for keeping him from helping her.

'I have to say, nobody stepped up; when the money train is running, everybody wants to be on it,' he said. 'I'm especially angry at this manager who has been with her and has seen everything! I begged him to help her many times, and always he turned her against me.'

Voight contends that at a recent party celebrating the 90th anniversary of Paramount, 'I ran up to give her a hug, and this guy stands in the way and puts his hand on me and says, 'Hey, she doesn't want to see you.''

As for Jolie's decision to file for divorce from Billy Bob Thornton, Voight said, 'I never had the feeling that they were going to make it, because of both of their serious problems ... so I never really held out any hope.'

Voight said he's concerned about his grandson, Maddox, Angelina's year-old adopted son: 'I haven't seen him, that is the greatest pain.'

Voight said he asked to go on 'Access Hollywood' because 'I tried everything else ... and I failed. I don't want to look back and say I didn't do everything I could.'

Jolie said in a statement: 'I don't want to make public the reasons for my bad relationship with my father.... After all these years, I have determined that it is not healthy for me to be around my father, especially now that I am responsible for my own child.' * * * LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Two weeks after Oscar-winning actress Angelina Jolie filed for divorce from husband Billy Bob Thornton, her father revealed on Thursday in a televised interview that she has split with him as well.

In a tearful appearance on the syndicated TV show 'Access Hollywood,' actor Jon Voight said his daughter has 'carried a lot of pain' for years, adding he was 'broken-hearted ... because I've been trying to reach my daughter and get her help, and I have failed and I'm sorry.'

Jolie responded with a brief statement acknowledging her estrangement from her father but offering no apologies or explanations.

'I don't want to make public the reasons for my bad relationship with my father,' she said. 'After all these years, I have determined that it is not healthy for me to be around my father, especially now that I am responsible for my own child.'

The 27-year-old actress adopted a Cambodian-born baby boy just months before she filed for divorce July 17 from Thornton, 46, her husband of two years, citing irreconcilable differences.

Voight, 63, an Academy Award winner for his 1978 role as a Vietnam War veteran in the film 'Coming Home,' said his own 'greatest pain' was not being able to see his adopted grandson, named Maddox. 'I'd love to help out with the baby,' he said.

Voight traced his strained relations with his daughter to his own separation from Jolie's mother, former actress Marcheline Bertrand, and his departure from the family home when Jolie was less than a year old.

He said he and Jolie enjoyed a brief rapprochement when they worked together on the set of 'Lara Croft: Tomb Raider' but had since become estranged again.

Jolie and Thornton, who met while working on the 1999 air traffic control comedy 'Pushing Tin,' separated in June, according to her divorce filing. The breakup of one of Hollywood's most high-profile and eccentric marriages had been the subject of frenzied gossip and tabloid headlines for weeks.

Jolie, who studied acting at the Lee Strasberg Theater Institute in New York, gained widespread attention, critical raves and an Emmy nomination for her performance as the drug-addicted, AIDS-stricken model Gia Carangi in the 1998 HBO television movie 'Gia.'

She went on to win an Academy Award as best supporting actress for her role as a young, institutionalized sociopath in the 1999 drama 'Girl, Interrupted' and box-office success as an action heroine Lara Croft in 'Tomb Raider.'

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remember way back when Jolie & her brother were creeping everyone out, and we speculated that perhaps they were molested as children, or at least abused, by Voight? i'm getting those same creepy vibes with this latest round of nuttiness. another possibility is that Voight is the emotionally unstable one (sure seems like it!), and Jolie has gotten her stuff together enough to see it and keep her kid away from him.

this whole thing is too creepy!

What was that all about? I saw the interview and thought, this is as strange as the OJ car chase. Jon Voight making a public appeal to his daughter on E!

Anyone else have the suspicion that Angelina is going to wind up pulling a Margot Kidder in a year or two (if not sooner)?

I get the same vibe that perhaps Voight molested Angelina. But....weren't they in a movie together?

'I agree, Dez. I think Voight's the one with problems (well at least more than poor Angelina).'

I disagree. I've always thought Jolie had serious problems long before her Dad talked about her on TV.

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'Anyone else have the suspicion that Angelina is going to wind up pulling a Margot Kidder in a year or two (if not sooner)?'

Yep. If not sooner.

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Geez....I hope not that poor kid!

I wondered weht Margot , googled to http://www.namiscc.org/newsletters/August01/ MargotKidder.htm where they say that she fully recovered and without using any drugs.

She has become a vocal advocate for alternative mental heath treatments and there is now a Margot Kidder award for people advancing safe and effective alternative mental health treatments.

Also they say she has recovered her career though I don;t know of any films she is doing.

I wouldnt wish mental illness on anyone and it was nice to read Margot's story had a happy ending.

It sounds like she inherited her exhibitionism from him. What kind of person accuses their child of being crazy on TV? Yeah, I know, people on Jerry Springer. He's trailer trash. I almost feel sorry for her

Margot has a major role in a cute kid's TV show called 'The Worst Witch'. If you are a fan of Harry Potter I'd recommend checking it out. I think she's had a few other guest appearances elsewhere...

I'm glad too - mental illness is a terrible thing, and I appreciate how she's gone about putting her life back together quietly and with dignity (as opposed to blabbing about it to all the entertainment shows like other '70's actressess...right, Suzanne Somers?)