'Bad girl' Angelina Jolie says she's lucky to be alive

HOLLYWOOD actress Angelina Jolie believes she is lucky not to have joined the ranks of famous film stars who died young, according to a CBS report, given her wild lifestyle before she settled down.
 
The twice-married 36-year-old, who now lives with Brad Pitt and their six children, told the CBS show 60 Minutes: "I went through heavier, darker times and I survived them. So I am very lucky. There are other artists and people that didn't."
 
She claimed that she had done "dangerous things" and taken "too many chances" in her past. "I did the worst," she said. "For many reasons, I shouldn't be here."
 
Jolie has been a favourite of the tabloids for over a decade. In the 1990s she was married to English actor Jonny Lee Miller and later tied the knot with American Billy Bob Thornton. The pair were notorious for wearing vials of each other's blood round their necks. She has also admitted to a lesbian affair with Jenny Shimizu, her co-star in one of her early films, Foxfire.
 
In addition to her tangled love life, she has struggled with drugs and depression. She was once sectioned and claimed to have tried to hire a hitman to kill her.

Today she works as a UNHCR ambassador and has three adopted children from Cambodia, Vietnam and Ethiopia. She and Brad Pitt have become one of Hollywood's most powerful couples since they got together in 2006, after he split from Jennifer Aniston. Jolie says that she still has a "bad" side but reserves it for "adventures" with Pitt.
 
The interview was filmed in Budapest where she has been filming her directorial debut, In the Land of Blood and Honey, and coincides with more speculation about her weight. According to the Daily Mail, her weight is now just 97lb and she "survives on as little as 600 calories a day, which is the equivalent of two bowls of cereal with milk". ·