Angelina Jolie previously revealed she tried to hire a hitman to kill her at age 22

Actor Angelina Jolie, in news over a divorce settlement with Brad Pitt, had once thought about hiring a hitman to kill herself. The comment, originally made during an interview to IMDb in 2001, is making the rounds on the internet and gaining a lot of traction. Ms Jolie was in her 20s then and said the reason for the bizarre move was that she thought it would be easier for her loved ones to deal with her death if she was murdered, rather than if she killed herself.

“This is going to sound insane but there was a time I was going to hire somebody to kill me,” she told IMDb.

She opened up further in an interview with The Face two years later.

Her decision to hire someone rather than take her own life was made because she believed it would make her death easier for her loved ones to cope with.

“I was very aware that so many people around me, like my mother, would feel as though they didn’t give enough or do enough, if I’d taken my own life.

“So my solution to that was if someone else had taken my life – like in a ‘robbery’ – then it would be murder and it wouldn’t be that anyone would feel they’d let me down.”

Jolie hired a hitman and planned things out, deciding she would ‘take out cash over a certain amount of time, so there wasn’t a big chunk in my bank account’.

However, a question from the hitman himself led to Jolie changing her mind.

She said: “He was a decent enough person and asked if I could think about it and call him again in two months. Something changed in my life and I figured I’d stick it out.”

In 2011 Jolie appeared on 60 Minutes where she spoke about having a dark past.