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Actor Jon Voight joined ‘Tucker Carlson Today’ recently to discuss a religious experience he had with God.

In an interview with Fox News show host Tucker Carlson, Jon steered the interview towards his faith in God. He spoke about that powerful encounter he had with God which changed everything for him and his family.

That moment came when Jon was facing a lot of challenges as an actor in Hollywood and when his relationships were failing at every level, “I was in a lot of trouble at one point. I had some problems, and I was really suffering for many reasons,” he said.

“My career was in flux at that time, and lots of things were going on at the time. My relationship to my kids and my wife.” Jon Voight says he hit the floor and exclaimed, “It’s so difficult.” He said that at that moment God spoke to Him.

Prior to this incident, Jon Voight was someone who prayed “with the idea that anybody’s listening.” But in that moment he was desperate to hear from God. “I heard in my ear, ‘It’s supposed to be difficult’… A voice of wisdom, kindness, clarity — it had so much resonance, this voice,” he recalled.

He realized immediately that it was the voice of God and that God was real and was watching everything that He was going through. That realization completely changed his life forever. Jon Voight continued to test God for the next couple of days and asked God for a sign, God delivered.

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Jon came to prominence in the late 1960s with his Academy Award-nominated performance as Joe Buck, a would-be gigolo in Midnight Cowboy (1969). During the 1970s, he became a Hollywood star with his portrayals of a businessman mixed up with murder in Deliverance (1972); a paraplegic Vietnam veteran in Coming Home (1978), for which he won an Academy Award for Best Actor; and a penniless ex-boxing champion in the remake of The Champ (1979).

Voight is the winner of one Academy Award, having been nominated for four. He has also won four Golden Globe Awards and has been nominated for eleven. On November 21, 2019, he was awarded the National Medal of Arts. He is the father of actress Angelina Jolie and actor James Haven.

Source: Wikipedia