At 22, Angelina Jolie once tried to hire a hitman to k*ll her because she believed it would hurt her family less than su*cide. “This is going to sound insane but there was a time I was going to hire somebody to k*ll me.” She later explained why she thought murder would be easier for the people around her to process. “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 even planned how she would slowly withdraw the cash without raising suspicion. But the hitman unexpectedly told her to wait and think again about her decision. “He was a decent enough person and asked if I could think about it and call him again in two months.” That pause changed everything. “Something changed in my life and I figured I’d stick it out.”