She credited a person who spoke to her kindly and made her rethink her decision.

Angelina Jolie has enjoyed a vast and successful career in Hollywood. Starting as an actress and model in the 90s, she has since become a prominent figure in the industry with several acclaims to her name. However, despite everything she has earned, life has not always been easy for her. The Eternals star has been quite open about her struggles, and during a 2001 interview, she revealed that she planned to end her life by hiring a h:itman.

Angelina Jolie in a still from Eternals

Angelina Jolie Wanted to Hire a H:itman to K:ill Herself

Angelina Jolie has been quite open about her struggles in the early years of her career. She has admitted that sometimes things got so bad that she even contemplated suicide. However, she almost decided to hire someone else to end her life.

Angelina Jolie in the Lara Croft: Tomb Raider

“This is going to sound insane, but there was a time I was going to hire somebody to k:ill me,” she said, as per The Herald. The Lara Croft actress explained that she decided not to commit suicide, as “with suicide comes all the guilt of people around you thinking they could have done something.”

However, she claimed that getting k:illed might not have been the same, saying, “With somebody being murdered, nobody takes some kind of guilty responsibility.” The actress also suggests that she found who she was looking for, as she shared that they made her rethink what she was about to do.

“The person spoke very sweetly to me. He made me think about it for a month,” she said. Jolie shared that after a month, she no longer had those thoughts as things changed for good, and she was surviving again.

Angelina Jolie’s Children Gave Her a Reason to Live

Angelina Jolie is a mother to six children, and in a recent interview with Vogue, she shared that her children saved her. Talking about how motherhood helped her mental health, she said, “My entire life changed. Having children saved me — and taught me to be in this world differently.”

The Maleficent star has earlier opened up about feeling mental health struggles, as she shared that despite having earned so much she was still not happy. She told ABC News in 2003,

Angelina Jolie with her daughter Vivienne in Maleficent (2014)

“I remember one of the most upsetting times in my life was after I had attained success, financial stability and I was in love, and I thought, ‘I have everything that they say you should have to be happy and I’m not happy.”

Jolie shared that if it wasn’t for her children, she would have been in a much darker place. She has six children, three adopted and three biological. She has adopted Maddox, Zahara, and Pax and shares three children, Shiloh, Knox, and Vivienne, with her ex-husband, Brad Pitt.