Actress and director sits down with 60 Minutes for very revealing interview

Nov 24, 2011 13:48 GMT  ·  By
“I didn't die young, so I'm very lucky,” Angelina Jolie says in new interview
   “I didn't die young, so I'm very lucky,” Angelina Jolie says in new interview

Come Sunday, CBS will air a full interview with Angelina Jolie on 60 Minutes in which she'll talk about love, family, directing movies and her wild youth. A preview has been released, promising the most revealing interview to date with the A-lister.

It's no secret that Jolie had a wild youth. Back in the day, she would get headlines for kissing her brother on the lips on the red carpet, wear vials of blood around her neck and reportedly doing mountains of coke.

Now a mother of six, Angelina doesn't want to go into the details of that darker period – but she does say she's lucky to still be alive, all things considered.

“I went through heavy, 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,” she says in the interview, as the preview below can confirm.

Pressed for details on what those “certain things” might be, Jolie tries to avoid the question by offering a vague answer.

“I think people can imagine that I did the most dangerous and I did the worst, and for many reasons I shouldn't be here,” she says.

“You think of those too many times where you came close to too many dangerous things, too many chances taken too far,” the star adds.

As for her days as a “bad girl,” they might be gone but Angelina still has something of that bad girl inside. She just doesn't let it show anymore.

“I'm still a bad girl. I still have that side of me. It's just in its place now... It belongs to Brad,” Jolie says.

The interview is part of the promotional campaign for Jolie's feature film directorial debut. “In the Land of Blood and Honey” will be out in theaters on December 23, just in time for the Oscar season.