MOSCOW, RUSSIA - JUNE 22: Actress Jacqueline Bisset poses for a photograph during a portrait session on June 22, 2015 in Moscow, Russia. (Photo by Oleg Nikishin/Epsilon/Getty Images)
Angelina Jolie’s reclusive godmother Jacqueline Bisset, 79, breaks cover amid family drama over Brad Pitt’s son Pax
Angelina Jolie’s reclusive godmother – a Hollywood legend – has broken cover for the first time in over a year as the actress deals with family crisis.
Jacqueline Bisset, 79, confirmed that she and Jolie, 49, are still on good terms as she spoke briefly while on a trip to a pet shop in Los Angeles this week.
But British-born Bisset, who was close friends with Jolie’s late mother Marcheline Bertrand, stayed tight lipped when asked if she had any contact with the star’s children.
It comes as Jolie’s son Pax – who is said to be estranged from adoptive father Brad Pitt – made headlines after being hospitalized in a horror electric bike crash last month.
Bisset made a name for herself in Hollywood decades ago with starring roles in Murder on the Orient Express and Bullitt.
She grew close to Jolie’s family after starring with her father Jon Voight in thriller The End of the Game in 1971, and over the years has gushed over her A-list goddaughter.movie
‘I find her rather extraordinary,’ she said at the Los Angeles premiere of Jolie’s Original Sin in 2001.
‘Her whole aura is breathtaking, and it’s amazing how much she’s changed in different stages [of life]. She’s evolved so much.’
When asked this week whether she is still close with Angelina, she replied simply: ‘Yes, everything’s good.’
Jacqueline, who turns 80 in September, wore a large smile on her shopping trip for pet items, stopping briefly to answer questions.
She donned a comfortable blue shirt, jeans, sandals and stylish sunglasses for the jaunt in Los Angeles.
But Bisset stayed silent when questioned over Jolie’s children, who have made headlines in their own right in recent years following the breakdown of her marriage to Pitt.
The couple’s son Pax suffered a terrifying accident a week ago after crashing his electric dirt bike into the back of a car stopped at a red light.
Witnesses at the scene said Pax immediately complained about pain in his head and hip after the crash, and was rushed to hospital as paramedics feared he suffered bleeding on his brain.
A source close to Angelia Jolie told Dailymail.com she’s ‘by his side in hospital’ where he remains in a stable condition.’ The full extent of his injuries are not yet clear.
But despite their lack of contact, a source told DailyMail.com: ‘Brad is distraught and worried over Pax’s accident, but he is unable to reach him.
Pax has been been estranged from Pitt since an alleged domestic violence incident with on a private jet with ex-wife Angelina in 2016. In an Instagram post from 2020, he called his Pitt a ‘world class a***hole’ and an ‘awful human being’.
‘You may tell yourself and the world whatever you want,’ he added. ‘But the truth will come to light someday.’
At the time, sources said Pitt found it ‘depressing to see this dragged up.’
