Angelina Jolie's Past Resurfaces

 New video footage has emerged of Angelina Jolie from the late 1990s which is alleged to have been filmed after she bought drugs from a dealer.

Convicted drug dealer Franklin Meyer claims he shot the 16-minute footage with Jolie’s consent in 1999 after she called him round to her Manhattan home to re-supply her with heroin and cocaine.

 

In the video, first released the video to The National Enquirer, the Maleficent star paces back and forth in a dingy apartment as she talks frantically on the phone.

The television is on in the background as Angelina appears to be in a state of distress as trash bags and soda cans litter the floor and coffee table.

Meyer told the Enquirer: Angie was a client of mine for several years. I sold her heroin and cocaine. One day she called me up and wanted me to drop by her place. 

That was her way of telling me she wanted me to bring her drugs,’.

 

‘At the time, I had just bought a video camera and decided to bring it along. When I arrived, I just gave her the drugs and then she gave me the money.’

Meyer, who has made previous claims about supplying the actress with drugs, said he kept filming her as her father, Hollywood star Jon Voight, rang and they discussed her brother, James, and late mother, Marcheline Bertrand. The footage, however, gives no clues as to who she is speaking with.

She also appears to reference her brother James Haven as she talks about a 'Jamie' and calls herself his 'sister'.

 

The star looks painfully thin in the footage and a far cry from the humanitarian and respected activist she is today.

Meyer claims in the same interview that he would see Jolie two or three times a week when she was in the city, meeting either at her flat or at the hotel. Each time, she would generally spend around $100 on heroin and cocaine, he said.

According to Meyer, she would take the drugs in front of him. ‘It didn’t seem to matter to her who was there.’ On one occasion, he claimed, she was high on coke during a high profile TV interview to promote the 1999 film Girl, Interrupted for which she won an Oscar.

The same year, the actress – who was still two years away from establishing herself as Hollywood’s premier pin-up star when she played adventuress Lara Croft – also posed for ‘lurid’ pictures taken by a friend.

According to the Enquirer, she ‘appears wasted – with black tape over her nipples and a dog leash around her neck’. In other suggestive shots, she is wearing a blindfold.

In 2011 Jolie alluded to a dark past as she told 60 Minutes: 'I went through heavier, darker times and I survived them. I didn't die young, so I’m very lucky. There are other artists and people who didn’t survive certain things.'

'I think people can imagine that I did the most dangerous and I did the worst,' she said at the time. 'For many reasons I shouldn’t be here. You think of those too many times where you came close to too many dangerous things, too many chances taken too far.'