Jon Voight on Rita Cosby
Yeah, yeah, I know this MSNBC interview happened last week, but iafrica.com is talking about it today, so we might as well too.
I can just think that one day, I’ll just say ‘Hey Shi, come over here.’ You know?” Voight said in a TV interview when asked if he would ever get to see Shiloh, born last week.
Part of me feels sorry for Jon Voight, but the other part of me saw how he disregarded Maddox and Zahara on that interview and could care less if he ever sees his grandkids. I guess he is probably just set in his ways as anyone his age probably is, but that doesn’t mean he won’t have to change that setting if he wants to be a grandfather. For now, he will just have to wait til the magazines come out with the $5 million money shot like the rest of us.
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13 opinions for Jon Voight on Rita Cosby
Carol
Jun 5, 2006 at 9:49 am
In all fairness Voight has spoken often of wanting to see Maddox and Zahara and being a grandfather one day to them also.
Voight regardless of his issues with Angelina has looong been an activist for civil rights, eduction for all and against poverty
Christina
Jun 5, 2006 at 9:52 am
I know he has, and like I said, part of me feels sorry for him - but you could sure see on that interview where he has a bit of a hard time considering Maddox and Zahara his true family. As an adopted person myself, and having been through that with my own grandmother who never really accepted me as a “real” part of the family, it affects me negatively. Sad to say, but that was what I saw and felt.
Original jpf
Jun 5, 2006 at 10:36 am
Carol & Christina I would be so willing to give the guy a break if I ever had irrefutable proof he’s made even one mention “prior” to Angelina’s pregnancy about being part of Maddox & Zahara’s life. I’m sorry, but I have never ever come across him at anytime acknowledging Zahara’s existence, and apart from his attempt to sabotage his daughter’s adoption of Maddox, I’ve “heard” he once talked about buying the child a teddy “I think.”
Sorry, but any empathy or compassion I may have had went seriously out of the window when he only in passing mentioned Madd & Zee. To ere is human, to forgive divine but there comes a time when the forgiver just keeps getting burned and the only way to stop that is to stay away from the firestarter.
Christina
Jun 5, 2006 at 10:46 am
I have to agree with you, as usual, JPF. ;)
jbl
Jun 5, 2006 at 12:38 pm
The rest of us who are not even related or know the Jolie-Pitt family know Madddox and Zahara’s name but this man is their grandfather but does not even remember their names when it counts. He said he wanted someone to help him reconcile with his daughter but I hope this is not the piece of tape they show her in order to convince her.
Bethany
Jun 5, 2006 at 1:58 pm
Totally Agree JPF, I could not have said it better myself.
cb
Jun 5, 2006 at 3:19 pm
While not excusing Voight, cause I can’t and won’t, I just wanted to say that I remember him saying how happy he was about Zee coming into the family. He was shooting the Pope John Paul II biopic when the interview occurred.
Again, I was struck how he essentially ignored his other two grandchildren, it struck a discordant note with me, but it did so especially after remembering his previous comments about wanting a rapporchment with Angelina.
viva brangelina
Jun 5, 2006 at 9:22 pm
i agree with u too, JPF.
Catherine
Jun 5, 2006 at 11:54 pm
Yes, I’m on the same page with ya’ll too. I have never seen him publicly apologize to Angelina for the shallow way he treated her when she adopted Maddox, and his weak attempt at including Z and Madd in this interview was obviously strained…and probably dictated to him, because somebody had to have pulled him aside by now and said to him: “Gee, Jon, maybe Angie might soften if you NOTICED ALL HER KIDS?…ya think?”
His claims to ‘grandfatherhood’ are a real reach considering how he’s acted about Angie’s choice to adopt. This man really needs to have a long talk with, oh, maybe Anthony Robbins or someone really way up there in regard to human behavior and why we do the things we do, because until he takes a long hard deep look at HIMSELF and what he is doing that has offended his daughter, he hasn’t got a prayer that would put him back in Angelina’s good graces, and he deserves every bit of her shunning.
It’s really too bad… but he did this to himself.
Pearl
Jun 6, 2006 at 12:46 am
Mr.Voight once said he liked the look of Brad Pitt.
This should tell you how vain this man is.
He never mentioned if Brad was the right person
for his daughter.
Again letus go back to why he is estranged from his daughter. He said some not so nice things about her. Damn if she didn’t prove him wrong.
That is good revenge, proving you are more than he could even imagine.
I think the guy has a whopper of an ego. If he is going to slight the children, then I don;t think
I would want him in my life.
He may not be a bad Guy, but you may have to keep him at a distance.He may cause more harm than good.(Just my opinion)
viva brangelina
Jun 6, 2006 at 6:54 am
well, he left his family, he said something bad about his OWN daughter, publicly, he didnot mention anything about angie’s adopted kids and now he wants to make peace with her?
*sighhh…..* actually i really don’t like to see any father to daughter fight. but if the person that i love keeps spitting my face or step on my feet, i will absolutely take a distance from that person.
i think, the reason why angie doing that is for Z’s and Mad’s feeling. she would be careless about her own feeling to her father, so it’s for the kids’ sake.
i remember her quoted “it’s better for my son for not having any father rather than having one but never be there for him”
that just explained everything about her feeling for JV.
the kids are better not knowing their grandpa rather than meet him just to be hurt.
Nikki
Jun 6, 2006 at 11:31 pm
As far as am concern all he did was speak the truth about his daughter. She choose to live her life in the public eyes, when she mention what ever it was her and Billy Bob was doing on their way to an award show. So what do you expect her father to do but say what ever in public.
S.
Jun 8, 2006 at 11:24 am
wow..you guys…I do remember him saying (every time Angelina has done something notable..like adopting) that he wanted to included in his grandchildrens lives…he said it the first and second time she adopted…and actually, I have to admit, if my daughter gave birth to another child(which is a undeniably a physical event) I would want to be included in that event as well….
if your kid is pregnant and giving birth, that is a big land mark in your kids life, and you would want to be included..it has nothing to do with “adoptive kids vs. biological kids” this is a real event…I am sure anyone who has had a daughter that is pregnant and gives birth can relate to what I am saying…
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