Renowned American actress Angelina Jolie has disclosed that she ceased singing due to harsh criticism from her former boyfriend regarding her vocal abilities.

She reflected on how his unkind remarks led her to believe she lacked singing talent, but she has since reconnected with her musical voice.

In a recent interview with the Hollywood Reporter, Jolie shared that the negative feedback had a significant impact on her mental well-being, causing her to internalize her ex-boyfriend's views as her own truth.

“It was an out-of-body experience because I don’t sing. I had somebody in my life who was not kind to me about singing. It was a relationship I was in. And so I just assumed I couldn’t really sing. I’d been to theater school, so it was weird that it even had an effect on me,” she said.

“I just kind of adapted to this person’s opinion. So it took me getting past a lot of things to start singing. And discovering also that I was a soprano.”

She added, “I thought I had a low voice my whole life. I was explaining [to the singing instructor] that my voice is deeper, and he said, ‘No, you’re actually a soprano.’ And probably something happened. Your voice changes when you go through different things in your life. So that was a shock. That was very strange.