Angelina Jolie is very "lucky" to have not died young

The Oscar-winning actress is famed for her wild past - including a period where she experimented with hard drugs and self-harming - and is grateful she`s still alive as she knows it could have turned out much differently.

The 36-year-old beauty said: "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.

"People can imagine I did the most dangerous and the worst. For many reasons, I shouldn`t be here. You just think [about] those times when you came too close to too many dangerous things, too many chances taken, too far."

Angelina - who raises six children with partner Brad Pitt - admits her life has calmed down but she will always have a wild side to her personality.

She told Bob Simon on CBS` `60 Minutes`: "I`m still a bad girl. I still have that side of me.it`s just in its place now.it belongs to Brad. Or our adventures."

Angelina has always been very open about her past and has previously spoken candidly about her drug use, saying: "In the past I took just every drug possible, coke, ecstasy, heroin, everything."

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